• 2025

    Change is all around us. There is no escaping the daily surprises. I sometimes blame my lack of observational skill but things do sneak up. Farming presents incessant change both good and bad. Some of the good changes are trees, vines, and crops as they grow, new buildings that make for better operations, getting rid Read More   |  

  • 2024

    Welcome Friends to the 2024 Mount Mary Newsletter….In this newsletter I take a look at the state of the wine industry and our place in it. I examine the changing social attitudes towards the consumption of alcohol and I consider, against the backdrop of a changing climate, where grape varieties are planted and what the Read More   |  

  • 2023

    Welcome to our 2023 Newsletter which, as always, has snuck up on me. Time, for me, is accelerating but I have no problem with getting older. Just an annoying sense of urgency and a list of unfinished projects…….But you must love ageing. After all there is no escaping it. For a biologist, time is the Read More   |