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2019 Dragonfly Shiraz ~ 91/100 Cellar Talk- Ray Jordan

Cellar Talk, Ray Jordan

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Meet The Team- Maddy

Meet Maddy another of our 2020 Vintage Cellar Hands

WA Liquor Restrictions

Liquor Licensing Amendment - 27th March 2020
 

The State Government and the Director of Liquor Licensing were provided with information by Wines of WA outlining how the previous limit of 3 bottles per customer per day for online and mail order sales channels would have been unworkable for all WA wine producers.

Please see below the revised notice from the Director of Liquor Licensing providing an update for Producer’s Licence holders regarding intrastate online and mail-order sales, interstate online and mail-order sales, sales to wholesale licensees and international sales. These are detailed as follows:

• Intra-state online and mail-order: Sales to unlicensed individuals that will be delivered to a West Australian address will be limited to one 12 x 750 ML bottle carton (9 litres) per customer per week.
• Inter-state online and mail-order sales: Sales to unlicensed individuals that will be delivered to any state other than WA will have no limit on the quantity of wine that can be sold to a customer
• Sales to Wholesale Licensees: Sales to wholesale customers can be fulfilled as required
• International Sales: There are no limits on the quantity that can be sold to international customers 

Meet the Team- Joe

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Meet Joe, one of our Cellar Hands here for Vintage 2020!

 

 

COVID-19 UPDATE

UPDATE COVID-19 In light of recent developments around COVID-19 we feel a social responsibility to do our part in keeping our community safe. For the health of all our customers and our staff we have made the following decisions: At this stage our Cellar Door will remain OPEN, we ask that if you have recently travelled overseas or have flu like symptoms that you please stay home. We will be offering Free Delivery on all online orders of 6 bottles or more so you can stay home and enjoy your favourite wine. Group Bookings, we will be limiting the number of people in cellar door at a time so we will not be taking more than 1 group booking at a time. Should you plan on bringing a group out please book online 24hrs in advance: www.willowbridge.com.au/Cellar-Door/Group-Bookings *Any groups arriving unbooked may be asked to wait or come back at another time should we have other customers already.   We encourage all our customers to continue to support all your local businesses in this difficult time. Stay Safe, from the Team at WBE. Questions or concerns? Please get in touch wine@willowbridge.com.au

Wine vintage 2020 seems set to sparkle- South West Times 20th Feb 2020

Winemakers in the region are raising a glass to celebrate a bumper crop of fruit this season.

A dry summer and warm spring has led to disease-free fruit ahead of schedule for St Aidan Wines.

Owner Mary Smith said the 2020 vintage wines would be fantastic.

“We started harvest nearly three weeks ago for sparkling wine,” she said. “We’re two to two and a half weeks early because of the warm spring.”

Mrs Smith also predicted, due to the red wine grapes’ development, the 2020 red wines St Aidan red wines would would be “fairly alcoholic reds”.

St Aidan Wines is expected to harvest between 20 and 25 tonnes of grapes this season.

“There has been no complications, it’s been a dream season,” Mrs Smith said.

Willow Bridge Estate winemaker Kim Horton said Bunbury’s December average temperature was 3C above average, which led to harvesting starting in January.

“This season we’re down on yield due to December’s heat, it was almost a heatwave,” he said.

“At that point it was a bit worrying, but since then, January was cooler and the fruit was really good quality.

“The blossoms on the marri trees have kept the birds off the vines, so we have no damage.”

Mr Horton said, based on other winemakers in the region he had spoken with, South West producers were doing really well this season.

He said he felt for producers in other States who had to deal with smoke and drought.

Capel Vale Winery lab assistant Zofja Urbanski said the winery’s harvest season started just after Australia Day.

“We source our grapes from as far as Mount Barker and Margaret River, as well as on site, and we have lower yields but a more intense fruit,” she said.

“The cabernet in Margaret River will be the last we pick and that will be around Easter.

“We believe it’s going to be a really good vintage, we’re getting really good juice from the fruit.”

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