The Adelaide Hills Season Review 2022/2023 collated by CropWatch hit my inbox last week. 

Don’t stress… I’m not going to bore you with all the details!

But there were a couple of interesting snippets.

Let’s have a look…

2022/2023 Adelaide Hills Season Review

Although the summary of the report started with…

“The vagaries of the 2022/2023 growing season will be long remembered by grape growers.”

… it’s not all bad news!

Yes, below-average crop loads and a long cool ripening meant that the harvest period was one of the latest since the 1990s and early 2000s!

But, relatively dry conditions during ripening meant that disease pressure was low, particularly given the adverse conditions from budburst to fruit set.

The summary finished with this…

“These autumn conditions resulted in wines that will maintain the high regard held for the quality wines for which the Adelaide Hills is renowned.”

Well, I should hope so!

Of course, this season will be long remembered. But hopefully for as many good reasons (some amazing wines!) as bad!

CropWatch monitors six vineyards across the region:

• Balhannah,
• Forreston,
• Kuitpo,
• Lenswood,
• Macclesfield and
• Woodside.