Selling Out!
By mid-December all of the bottles will be shipped from the cellar into the hands of wine drinkers around the world including Austria, England, Estonia, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, South Africa and the USA — pretty cool.
Wasps Attack and First Bottling
The big highlight is that we have bottled the 2023 vintage. Whew!
Thesis Grade and Reserve Your 2023 Bottle
Fast forward to 18 June 2024 and in a flash it’s over. Last week I successfully defended my thesis titled “Organic Banana Peel Compost as a Sustainable Source of Minerals for Young V. Vinifera”. In brief, my thesis experimentally demonstrated that solid banana peel compost can increase the availability of potassium in soil and increase vine vigor, specifically trunk thickness and shoot length, when compared to the control. Since I uploaded it on ResearchGate last week it already has 176 reads — not bad for a thesis. I hope the results give farmers and vignerons the motivation and confidence to source local fruit peel waste from any fruit and compost it for fertilizer, instead of using soil-killing mined chemical fertilizers.