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Re: Some pics from Carrara Vineyards [Re: NitroX]
      #177081 - 13/03/11 11:35 PM


Some nice little violet flowers that grower in the grasses.







A 40 to 50 year old vine, chip budded from Shiraz to Semillon in the early 1980's





Skippy in a nearby hay crop.








We have a wide variety of wildlife on the property, some nomadic. Wild ducks in the creek when flowing, mountain ducks, wood ducks, black duck, grey teal. Native game such as the Eastern Grey Kangaroo, once an Emu, echidnas, brown and red bellied black snakes. Very poisonous! Small lizards, stumpy tailed, blue tongue, and various others. Introduced game such as foxes, hares and rabbits. Pigeons! Native Crested Pigeons, we call Top Knots. Native birds such as galahs, I shoot these over the crops. Rosellas, small green parrots, willy wag tails, kookaburras, sulphur crested cockatoos. Hawks and the occasional wedge tail eagle. Froggy mouth owls, and other owl species.

I hope to bring photo and video footage of many of these species over time. Got to carry a camera around more!

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Re: Some pics from Carrara Vineyards [Re: NitroX]
      #177086 - 14/03/11 02:15 AM


Female Black Duck and ducklings














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Re: Some pics from Carrara Vineyards [Re: NitroX]
      #178510 - 07/04/11 08:09 PM

Yay! Vintage is over for me for another year. Delivered the last two truckloads of grapes this evening. A hectic vintage this one has been.

Now I can do other things again, maybe even look for some deer, ducks, quail, rabbits and foxes!

Actually saw a quail fly off one night this week on the headland of a vineyard. Haven't seen them on my property for decades. Maybe look for them nearby in better places, they might be there this year.

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Re: Some pics from Carrara Vineyards [Re: NitroX]
      #218971 - 04/11/12 02:08 AM



The "big game" of my vineyards - the European Hare, Lepus europaeus. A fine game animal and fun to hunt and tasty to eat. OK there are grey kangaroos as well but I don't shoot them.

A shy animal, nesting above ground, they are fun to watch "boxing" in Spring, believed to be females hitting the males when they are not ready to mate or testing his determination.



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Re: Some pics from Carrara Vineyards [Re: NitroX]
      #218988 - 04/11/12 04:29 AM

Hares are great animals, the problem we have with the european hare is that it pushes our swedish hare away. The european hare is bigger than the swedish one.

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Re: Some pics from Carrara Vineyards [Re: Sville]
      #219029 - 05/11/12 12:37 AM

Staffan,

we don't have that problem, all hare being introduced.

Here is something else I saw amongst the vines a day or two ago.



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Re: Some pics from Carrara Vineyards [Re: NitroX]
      #219573 - 14/11/12 06:38 AM

John:
That could be the lable on a bottle or "Yellow Tail" almost!
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Re: Some pics from Carrara Vineyards [Re: aromakr]
      #219601 - 14/11/12 11:49 PM

I'll excuse you that comment. These grapes would never end up in a bottle of "yellowtail".

We usually have one to three roos camping in the vineyards somewhere. Only one recently though, the others someone must have molested. Not by me though.

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Re: Some pics from Carrara Vineyards [Re: MarinePMI]
      #341380 - 25/05/20 07:48 PM

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John,

Any thoughts on "Pirathon, by Kalleske" wines? I had a bottle fo Shiraz last night from this vineyard and noticed "Barossa Valley" on the bottle, which immediately brought you to mind.

As far as Shiraz's go, I though it was...okay...but I'm no wine expert. Just thought I'd ask, as my friedns (who gave my wife and I the bottle) said it "wasn't much, but it's decent"...

Thoughts?




Funny I ended up selling to Pirathon last year. And Kalleske this year. Pirathon was orginally a Kalleske brand, but sold off later. Kalleske still managed it for the Chinese Sydney based owned until 2019.

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Re: Some pics from Carrara Vineyards [Re: NitroX]
      #341381 - 25/05/20 07:49 PM

Quote:

Quote:

Any thoughts on "Pirathon, by Kalleske" wines? I had a bottle fo Shiraz last night from this vineyard and noticed "Barossa Valley" on the bottle, which immediately brought you to mind.

As far as Shiraz's go, I though it was...okay...but I'm no wine expert. Just thought I'd ask, as my friedns (who gave my wife and I the bottle) said it "wasn't much, but it's decent"...

Thoughts?




Never tried any of Troy Kalleske's wines so no idea. He has a reasonable reputation as a boutique winemaker.

http://www.kalleske.com/content/view/14/28/




And sold to Kalleske last year and again this year. Intending to do so next year as well. Kalleske's are very nice decent people and good to deal with. Great wines as well.

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Re: Some pics from Carrara Vineyards [Re: kamilaroi]
      #341382 - 25/05/20 07:50 PM

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Perhaps pirathion (laughing).

Seriously though they may have bought the grapes elsewhere. John would know though.




I'm glad this "Kameltoe" idiot is gone.

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      #341384 - 25/05/20 08:02 PM

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      #358048 - 11/11/21 11:35 PM


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Rain, Rain, Rain! Yippee! Four days of rain forecast, from 20 mm to 60 mm. So far it has been gentle showers. Much needed drink for the vines, trees, plants.

Busy mowing down grasses this week, well and truly beyond time. A slightly wetter winter means I have Spring grasses as high as from my waist to neck high!

Colonel William Light an explorer and surveyor before settlement of the colony of South Australia remarked of this very locale, within a kilometre, that he was riding on his horse and over waist high in grass. It still can happen. Just need some moisture at the right times, and right amount, with no human interference. The Aboriginals used to burn off grasses in this area to reduce mosquitoes and encourage new grass for game and subsistence hunting. A nomadic hunting existence, they lived in these somewhat cooler region in Summer and the warmer Murray plains in Winter.

I DONT want heavy torrential rains, three or four inches of sudden rain, is an out of control flood. Steady good softer rains fill up the dams, creeks and rivers, and flow steadily. Never seen a breaking of a drought where there wasn't a massive flood! Six or so years ago, the last good wet year and had a damaging flood. In 1983 we had six inches in a few years and a huge flood, two years of cleaning it up. I stayed home to work with Dad for two years before starting University to help with the clean up. Don't need it again!

I do want cattle and meat sheep again. All this methane bs I am still going to eat beef and not pay $100 a kg for it when they tax beef with climate change taxes. Got a new property to stock as well. A bush block. Yippee. My dogs love it.

The grasses at least will hold the soils well if there is a flood. And flatten them. The biggest problem is debris. I even have thick green grasses in the river/creek beds. No sheep for a few years and no cattle for two decades. Rains a month or so ago enough to get the river/creek flowing, first time for six years, but only for a day, allowed this grass to grow. Should hold the river bed well.

Cutting down the tall grasses the moisture will allow lovely fresh green grasses to grow. The resident roos, rabbits and other critters will love it. And then more mowing! I seriously need an undervine mower now.

Cold days this week. About 10 deg C, which is Winter weather here. A few degrees less at night. And no frosts currently, all that moisture in the air and cloud cover means no frosts. Already have my frost damage from early Spring alas.

As one movie said, a movie paralleling our political times "V for Vendetta", :

"God is in the Rain".

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Re: Some pics from Carrara Vineyards [Re: NitroX]
      #358062 - 12/11/21 05:38 AM

Ahh yeah - heading into summer, you are. Wish the temp here was 10C. It is still above 0 during the day, though. Nice when the sun shines.
Very interesting read, John.

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