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This year I had a small section of our Kerr Farm Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc block put aside to see how ripe we could get it. It got to about 29 brix. When we went to pick these plants we found masses of bees breaking the berry skins and feeding on the inside grape pulp, leaving us just the skins and not much fruit for winemaking. A few days later talking to my neighbour he tells... > Read more

We were give a lovely New Zealand Flag, so I built a flagpole. Here is the raising of the pole. Play Video > Read more

  Borat gives a lesson how to hold a wine glass > Read more

Making videos about different things is fun for me. My mate Stack is a well known photographer and Hexacopter pilot / builder. He was looking for somewhere to test out one of his latest constructions. CLICK HERE TO START VIDEO It was a beautiful winters day, blue skies with a few moody dark... > Read more

Here is a short video introducing the cellar door at Kerr Farm Vineyard Click here to see the video > Read more

The chopper was out over the grapevines this morning. A big high over the North Island of New Zealand created the ideal conditions for a frost. It got pretty nippy and fortunately the frost was not to hard. Click on this link for a short vid Frost Check out how loud the birds are in the dawn... > Read more

Vineyard happenings at Kerr Farm Wine. September is when the new growing season starts again in the vineyard. All the winter pruning and the taking of cuttings should be finished. I was running a bit late this year so some of my later varieties did not get finished until the middle of the... > Read more

Today we had a quick, but surprise hail storm. It only lasted for about 30 seconds but was quite dramatic. This can be very hard on young vine buds, they can be bruised and sometimes broken of the main cane. Early varieties like chardonnay are very prone to this, lets hope not ours. Now the sun... > Read more

New Release Kerr Farm Pinotage 2008 P'08 is in stock at Wine Circle Huapai, ask Chris to tell you about it. Be some of the 1st to get this wine, free tasting at Kerr Farm Cellar door every weekend > Read more

Kerr Farm Pinotage P'08 at Pure Retaurant Herne Bay The New Release Kerr Farm Pinotage P'08 is on the wine list at Pure Restaurant at 186 Jervous Rd., Herne Bay, Auckland Central. This has worked out perfectly with the celebration of Swiss National day until 13th August 2011 at... > Read more

Kerr Farm Wine is pleased to announce that the Famous Kerr Farm Pinotage, the New P’08 vintage, is back on the wine list at Takahe Restaurant and Bar. Owners Cherie and Tate Smeele are... > Read more

July Vineyard happenings at Kerr Farm Wine. Winter is the time for pruning grapevines. During winter the vines are dormant, they have lost all their leaves and the sap is retracting back... > Read more

We have a few Magnums (1.5L)... for sale. Only a few of these are made each vintage and we release them when they have aged up a bit. They are...... 1999 Semillon, very rare from this... > Read more

Here is a product I have come across that I think you may find interesting and very useful It is called the ZipVac Vacuum Packing kit. Put your food into the bag, run your finger along the... > Read more

A few tips on how to make a grapevine cutting. Use this technique to take cuttings of your favorite grapevine and propagate more grapevine plants. > Read more

A few tips on how to prune your grape vines during their winter dormancy. Best months for New Zealand are June, July and August. > Read more

For those of you interested in Pinotage here is a link to the Pinotage Association of South Africa. =http://www.pinotage.co.za You can sign up for their E newsletter. Cheers Jaison > Read more

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We had some mates around the other night and Jaison cooked some of his favorite Pizza. As you can see somebody got their share. > Read more

The Pizza team worked very hard on the day to produce many woodfired Pizza that everybody loved. > Read more