Harvest Reports

2008 Harvest Report

The 2008 Rymill Coonawarra harvest will be ranked highly, with very good to excellent wines being made from vineyard yields that were slightly above our long-term average.

We are very pleased with the quality of our wines across all varieties, and although the hot spell was an issue, it did not have any significant impact. We hope you look forward to enjoying the wines of this first rate vintage!

Ideal seasonal conditions and a dry summer heralded a vintage two weeks earlier than usual, with all our sauvignon blanc harvested by the end of a cool February. Some merlot was harvested during the first week of March, but we then experienced two weeks of unusually hot weather. However, the hot days were mitigated by cool nights, and although we saw elevated sugars during this period the vines and fruit maintained very good condition. The second half of March was cool, which allowed the fruit to regain its equilibrium and comfortably ripen to completion, with the last of the cabernet sauvignon being harvested by mid April.

For previous harvest reports, see Harvest Reports 1990 – 2007