The Story Behind KELPIE'S RUN
When one’s vineyard is boutique in size (5000 vines), and has trees surrounding it, then there tends to be bird nuisance around ripening and picking time.
Our Estate has one vineyard block completely enclosed with permanent netting and we use throw-over bird netting over the other vineyard rows.
Bird nuisance can still occur , so we have trained our five kelpies, Gina, Jack, Tara, Ned and Kelly to chase birds away from the vineyard rows.
This is a job they love doing and would run all day if we let them.
We have decided to dedicate our dry white and red range from 2003 to our kelpies, who love to “run” in our vineyard and really earn their keep at the business end of the season. |