"What's good for the pastures is bad for the vines." (Montaigne, FYI). After a third La Nina summer, by hanging on till April, we were...

A tree fell in the forest. To be specific, an American Red Pine, the last of four planted in 1900 to mark the boundaries of the Jamieson...

La Nina, the Negative Indian Ocean Dipole and the South Polar Vortex hate me. It’s mutual. Pax to the marketing departments at Chateau...

Rose. Strictly between ourselves I used to think of it as a bit of a sissy girls’ drink. Then, in 2020 when we were shrouded in bushfire...