Description
Net by Hand – Chardonnay
One of the things you quickly learn in the wine making industry is that everything is trying to eat your grapes. Particularly ruthless are the birds: Cockatoos, Galahs, Rosellas, Lorikeets, Choughs, Crow, Sparrows and many more are all out to destroy your crop. The best way to protect against these fruit predators is by keeping them out. Fortunately we inherited a quantity of bird nets when we purchased Parson’s Gully, unfortunately we didn’t have the equipment to manipulate massive rolls of nets. “Net by Hand” (Chardonnay) is a reminder of the process of dislodging rolls of nets, sometimes 5m above ground in pallet racking, hoisting the nets into a wheel barrow and wheeling this out to the vineyard. Manually rolling the net up and down the rows of vines. Draping the nets over the vines and tying them down. During and after harvest we repeated the process in reverse to recover the nets back to the shed.