Wine & Health – some good news for a change!

The World Health Organisation and all the public health authorities have been slowly reducing the ‘safe drinking guidelines’ for years. It’s a global conspiracy…not an actual conspiracy but an unspoken risk-aversion state of mind which pervades all public health thinking. Their approach is “If there’s any chance of harm, we’d better warn people”. Okay but […]

Harvest Poem by Indi

HARVEST The sun has barely risen, The day is still brand new,  But there is movement in the vines, We have a job to do.   There’s people of all ages, Who’ve come from far and wide, Everyone has gathered, To get the crop inside.   With picking snips in one hand, And a bucket […]

A Vineyard Poem by Indi

There’s a blush on the horizon,Colours run free.The darkness is bleached,She bares the world before me. I stand among an army,A maze of leaves and canes.Strength courses in these vines,Like the blood within my veins. Cushioned by soft hills,A view stretched to the shore.Branches sway to the southern breeze,A vineyard on the dance floor. Guarded […]