The journal 4 entries
Written between rows, in the barn, in the rain.
Whoever did the work writes it up. Every entry is marked with the part of the year it was written in, because a note about pruning reads differently when your hands are cold.
- Pruning · 1
- Growing · 1
- Harvest · 1
- Cellar · 1
Latest · Growing
The wall is the vineyard
We spent our first two years rebuilding 640 metres of drystone wall before we planted a single vine. It is still the best decision on the estate.
2026
- Cellar
We held the Coldfoot back fourteen months
The 2022 Pinot was ready to sell and not ready to drink. Here is what it cost to wait, and why we would do it again.
- cellar
- releases
- Wren Ashcombe
- 2 min
- Pruning
Pruning is the only decision that matters
Every January Tomás walks 22,500 vines with a pair of secateurs and decides the vintage. Everything after that is damage limitation.
- vineyard
- pruning
- Tomás Iveson
- 2 min