Growing Notes
Welcome to the Shiraz Republic’s Growing Notes. Here we keep you up to date with news direct from The President, Brian and President-elect, Spencer. This includes updates on harvest throughout the year, especially as we approach vintage, Rent-A-Row activities, events and more.
Two years of Cornella Brewery
A facelift This October sees Matt and Spencer overtake two years of brewing as Cornella Real, The Shiraz Republic's 200L nanobrewery. Since then there has been a lot of changes, observations and with the confidence of two years brewing, we've got some plans. The first...
Shiraz Republic wins Gold!
The Shiraz Republic has won Gold at the at the 2018 Riverina Murray Regional Tourism Awards held on Saturday 21st July in Deniliquin. Winners in 14 categories were announced at the gala awards ceremony from finalists including tourism businesses, events, restaurants,...
Winemaking 2018: All hands on deck
President-Elect Spencer reviews our winemaking during the 2018 Vintage. We have expanded on our production of Chardonnay & Rosé after the success of our small batches in 2017 and took the opportunity to create some new varieties, Tempranillo & Grenache alongside our regular Shiraz production.
Rent-A-Row 2018: Picking, Crushing & Pressing
Secretary of State Janet reviews the 2018 Rent-A-Row harvest. 2018 saw us grow to 124 groups of winemakers, each visited to vineyard to pick their grapes, crush them into wine and press the resulting product into their own demijohn for maturation through to winter.
No Two Seasons Are The Same
“Quantity was down, but the quality was up.”, It’s a cliche, but there is a lot of truth in it. The President reviews our 2018 Grape Harvest & recaps the story of the season.
Baume Readings 21 Feb – Harvest Begins
We began harvest on Wednesday 21st Feb with a significant pick from the two areas of the vineyard that seemed to be the most advanced in ripening. The good news is- "It's ready", the not so good news is "It's early". So get ready, I am already running full tilt trying...
Baume’ Readings 14th Feb
OK. Resume normal programming. The week of milder temperatures has slowed down the ripening process. Overall the grapes moved 1.0 Baume' on average. The lowest sample is sitting on 11,1 Be and the highest on 13.1 Be with the average from the 13 test rows being 12.3...
Rent-A-Row: Where to eat in Heathcote
"Were to eat?" is easily the most frequently asked question we answer during Rent-A-Row times at the Shiraz Republic. Food is now available 7-days a week at the Shiraz Republic, however we've put together a selection of other options too. If your plan is to stay...
Baume’ Readings 7th Feb
As expected the sustained warm weather has seen the fruit ripen quickly. Baume' readings show some sample blocks have jumped 2 Baume' in the week. Get ready folks, this could be sooner than we thought. The weather is a predicted to be more moderate in the week ahead...
Rent-A-Row 2018: Where to stay in Heathcote
Around harvest time, we are often asked for ideas about where our Rent-A-Row customers can stay. A lot of our citizens like to find somewhere out here to stay overnight and get an early start to their experience the next morning. Others like to participate in sampling...
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