Harvest Diaries

The Peru harvest and TFWATH Quebranta 2023
Warmest how dos from Peru, where, by the grace of pachamama, I'm currently stationed to make my tenth TFWATH wine: Quebranta 2023...
The Peru harvest and TFWATH Quebranta 2023
Warmest how dos from Peru, where, by the grace of pachamama, I'm currently stationed to make my tenth TFWATH wine: Quebranta 2023...

Making wine the old way in Bío-Bío
It’s a misty morning on April 25 2019 and in Roberto's HiLux 4x4 we're slaloming past rogue chickens on potholed dirt roads to Millapoa. This backwater village on the bank...
Making wine the old way in Bío-Bío
It’s a misty morning on April 25 2019 and in Roberto's HiLux 4x4 we're slaloming past rogue chickens on potholed dirt roads to Millapoa. This backwater village on the bank...

Harvest in the cradle of wine - part two
A month has passed, and I'm whiling away a few hours on a stopover in Athens, on my way back from Georgia to the UK. Time to think. There hasn't been much...
Harvest in the cradle of wine - part two
A month has passed, and I'm whiling away a few hours on a stopover in Athens, on my way back from Georgia to the UK. Time to think. There hasn't been much...

Harvest in the cradle of wine - part one
Vine-garlanded greetings from Imereti in Georgia - the very birthplace of wine. I've been here for a few weeks now... (time slips away from me... is it three? Four?) After...
Harvest in the cradle of wine - part one
Vine-garlanded greetings from Imereti in Georgia - the very birthplace of wine. I've been here for a few weeks now... (time slips away from me... is it three? Four?) After...

Back to Chile's beautiful south, March 2022
In March of this year, I worked on my second harvest in southern Chile and made my second wine from the red grape variety país (pron 'pie-ees'). The basic idea for my nomadic...
Back to Chile's beautiful south, March 2022
In March of this year, I worked on my second harvest in southern Chile and made my second wine from the red grape variety país (pron 'pie-ees'). The basic idea for my nomadic...