Quality Australian Wine handmade at our Australian Winery. Divers Luck is located on the North Coast at Port Stephens, just 2.5hrs drive north of Sydney. Divers Luck opened in December 2002, all our wine is made at the winery by the Adams Family. In such a short period of time we are rapidly gaining a reputation for producing superb award winning boutique wines.
Sunday, June 25, 2006
Diver Luck Cellar Door Experience
Our wines are available for tasting at our Divers Luck Winery Cellar Door, 7 days a week, we are open 10am-4pm during winter. Come in and say hello to Hellen, Damien and our friendly staff Kally and Jason (below in video), you might be lucky to also find Shark about the property.
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After the 2006 Harvest of March was completed, we waited until the autumn passed and the dropping of the leaves until we began the pruning back of the vines. The video is of Damien Divers Luck's Viticulturist and Winemaker filling in his afternoon with pruning. Damien is intervied by Steven on the Chambourcin block going over the finer points of vine pruning. Damien is continuing the Pruning throughout the winter months. With the outcome will be greater growth of the vine to how Damien wants it to be shaped, with the results seen in Spring Summer as the vines regain their healthy growth.
Cane Pruning:
Damien and Jason pruning the Chambourcin Lot
When? At the end of mid-late autumn, when all the leaves have fallen off. What? All the extra cane vines that have sprouted out to produce the fruit over summer. Why? You only need two arms, so the rest of the cane is cut back just to leave the two canes, left and right of the main trunk. How? 1. Identify the 2 canes to keep that will produce the fruit. The canes ideally will be healthy with basal buds and in line (horizontal) with the vine row, to then be tied to the vine trellis. 2. Begin to cut last years unwanted canes, from the centre of the main trunk (see video above), remove the canes from the vine clearing the area leaving only the 2 main canes.
Wrapping The Cane 1. Clear away all of the remaining canes, leaving the 2 arms that will now be tied to the trellis. 2. Identify the Basal Buds. The basal buds can be seen to be budding along the arm of the cane, they are are the most productive and will provide the continued growth of new canes and the fruit for the next seasons vintage. 3. Take one of the canes to wrap around the trellis, this is done by noting the natural growth of the arm of the cane to wrap from 'over' or start from 'under' the trellis first. One of the arms will be under, the other over. 4. Four Bud Rule: Noting the placing of the basal buds, to not bruise or scrape off. If possible wrap the cane with the buds pointing outward. Take the arm to the wrap the cane around the trellis. Over, under, over, under. Count out 4 basal buds from the centre, cutting off the arm at basal 5, as this may be too many for the productivity and energy for the vine. Then using the plastic ties, tie the very end of the arm to the trellis so that the vine growth will not fall to the floor, this is for vine trunk support also. See below video...
Cracking The Cane The cane is very hardy and can be stretched with great flexibility around the trellis, you will note the cracking sound....this is called 'cracking the cane', where the woody cane will lift to expose the green of the arm, this will only facilitate the energy of the plant growth to this part of the arm to establish new arm growth at this point where the cane has cracked.
