It’s important for me to keep our wines as natural as possible, so we don’t use any harmful sprays or chemicals on the farm and minimal intervention in the winemaking process. I challenge myself with coming up with new and unique wines and flavours – hence the reason we are known as – ‘Home of Unique Wines’. As we are a family winery, I pride myself in including our family in every aspect of the business. The winery is named after our daughter Bianca – a jazz soul musician, our first wine was named after our son Nicholas ‘St Nick’, our Rose’ is named after our granddaughter ‘Aurora’ – with a percentage going to her education fund. After my Olympian Speedskater Dad, Gramps died at the beginning of Covid, we made a Red Blend in his memory. It’s called ‘The Norseman’, as this is what he was named when he did his Olympics in Norway in 1952. I believe whatever art or skill you have, that you need to pass it on to others, so they can also benefit in one way or the other.

When visitors, customers come to our winery, I enjoy showing them our vintage equipment we started with, how I make dandelion wine out of the dandelions (after the bees have pollinated them). I share the bounty of our crops with our customers, so if they not only come for a unique wine tasting experience, but they sit amongst the cherry, apricot, plum trees in our Picnic Area, while tasting the cherry, apricot, plum wine. They are served our complementary walnuts from our trees during tasting while trying our award winning Black Walnut Wine. It is awesome to see people enjoy what you make (wine) and for your customers to see that buying their own piece of land and doing something creative with it, is actually more within their reach then they thought it was