Nets on an 8 month old vineyard? You have to be joking. Keep an eye out for the next insane installment of DAW.
Written in 2016, the answer to this of course was a resounding no. And yet, there is the evidence: mature vines shrouded in a wedding veil of snowy white bird netting, lightly burdened with glossy bunches of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir all ready to pick.
As you have guessed, life took it’s usual U-turn and we got a rare chance to purchase a 28 year old (at the time) dry-grown vineyard on the West Tamar in the sweet spot for sparkling production. It was simply too good an opportunity to resist; and so we didn’t, even though it meant selling the original site (which is still in very good hands with a bright future and many more stories to tell) in order to finance the new one.
So what has happened in the intervening decade? Too much to make light reading here but nonetheless, read on and I will try to give you some sense of the key moments, of years passing, like flickering newspaper pages or the sped up hands of a clock in an old Hollywood movie.
And at the end of it all, there will be wine.
Domaine Anthony Woollams 