2024 started out well with average rainfall and stable weather patterns, but it was to offer some twists and turns along the way to vintage. It got wetter and warmer through October, producing strong growth in canopies and a little more disease pressure than we like up until flowering. Conditions were kind in the northern Peninsula for fruit set, resulting in good yields that would balance the developing canopies. Cooler weather towards the end of November slowed things down a little and in the lead up to Christmas, we got some unwelcome wet, damp and humid weather. By New Year, just prior to veraison and in the leadup to vintage the vines enjoyed warm, stable, sunny, dry weather. Harvest started relatively early on the 20th of February, and conditions were generally textbook for growing tannins and flavours that would produce wines of intensity, structure and beautiful aromatics.