2021 was a perfect growing season, mild temperatures with average rainfall produced good yields with balanced flavours across all varieties.
Average rainfall and temperatures over winter set the season up nicely with ground moister. This continued into Spring but much warmer than average temperatures prompted an early start to the growing season. Perfect conditions over flowering lead to good yields across all varieties which was welcomed after the small production in 2020. Unfortunately, a couple of our older blocks didn’t fully recover from the previous year, so we saw some reduction still, but happy overall. Spring continued to be warm with good rainfall through into summer, December and February were dry, but January saw several wet days, some over 40mm. The mild conditions pushed the start of harvest into early March, which is preferable over the hotter day time temperatures in Fe