Smidge News- Autumn 2007
Welcome to the Autumn update from Smidge Wines. This edition contains the following highlights:
2006 / 2007 Growing Season…
Smidge Releases from 2005 Vintage
2006 The Cellar-pod Bottled and Released

2006 / 2007 Growing Season / Vintage Review…
The growing season and vintage just completed plagued with an unseasonably long and dry summer with some of the worst drought conditions on record. These conditions, coupled with the frost damage from spring and early summer, contributed to some of the lowest yields on record, with many of the old growers reminiscing about the '66/'67 vintage. Fortunately, a 1 in 10 year system provided some relief in Mid January, and the vineyards supplying Smidge fared well. Most used careful irrigation early in the growing season to ensure healthy canopy development. This early development and subsequent maintenance of the canopy through the season helped protect the resultant small berries from sunburn and ensured good phenolic development through to harvest. Overall vintage has been approx 3 weeks earlier than usual.
Fortunately, a 1 in 10 year system provided some relief in Mid January, and the vineyards used by Smidge fared fairly well, most used some irrigation early in the growing season which helped canopy development. This In turn this helped protect those berries produced against the extreme heat, and contributed to good flavour development into harvest. Overall vintage has been approx 3 weeks earlier than usual.

Smidge Releases from 2005 Vintage
Smidge is pleased to announce the release of itís 2005 Vintage reds. This includes our more established stable of wines such as the 2005 The Tardy & Donald Zinfandels, and the second vintage of Adamo, our first Barossa Valley Shiraz.
This year we have added two new wines to our portfolio, The ëSí Smitch - celebrating the heritage of Smidge, with a very limited production Barossa Shiraz (Just 60 cases produced) and The Houdini, an exciting new and unique blend of Zinfandel, Shiraz and Merlot.
To find out more about the wines please review the tasting notes at (The 'S' Smitch, The Tardy, The Donald and Adamo)

2006 The Cellar-pod Bottled and Released
For the third consecutive year, Smidge has just released the 2006, Adelaide Hills Viognier. With fruit from the same Vineyard in Keynton Valley in the northern Adelaide Hills, the 2006 wine shows a more austere style than the 2005 with intense stone fruit character. To find out more about this wine (click here).