Richard Robson

Winter is finally here and the winegrowers are gearing up for our pruning season. Once the leaves have fallen off the vines, they are dormant...

Here we go again! Harvest is about to begin over the next month or so for grape growers around the region. The grapes are starting...

Spring is a special time, symbolic of rebirth and renewal, along with warming and lengthening days. For those whose living comes from the land, spring...

As well as growing grapes and making wines, the Matakana Winegrowers spend a lot of time and effort working to promote and sell not just...

Our grape growing weather obsession is in high gear at the moment as we head toward the hotter months of the year. It’s been a...

Next month is fast becoming an important one for winegrowers around the Matakana Coast area. Not only do we watch with excitement as the new...

Wow, what a cracker of a weekend we had at the start of November! There were moments when it struck me just how long it...

For once, it didn’t rain, or not enough to matter. Frustratingly often around here, tail-ends of cyclones slam into the region just when the grapes...

I’m not going to dwell on the wet weather. NIWA’s predictions of higher than average rainfall in late summer, which I detailed in my last...

Wow, what great a start to summer at last! And you certainly notice it more because of the apparently incessant rain and wind of winter...