Blenheim and Indevin

I am getting settled into Blenheim and starting to explore the town before the vintage starts at Indevin.

This is Whites Bay, where you can go and collect local mussels off of the rocks.

   

The past two weeks at Indevin has been great! It has been filled with training, introductions and cellar tours. There are two seperate cellars, one dedicated to white wines and the other is dedicated to red wines. 

  

Here are some interesting facts about Indevin;

Indevin has 24 clients, the biggest being Waburn, Delegates and Winegrowers of ARA

This harvest Indevin is predicting we will produce 35,000 tons

Indevin is the secondest largest producer of wine in New Zealand closely behind Brancott (Montana) Winery

One in every Five bottles of wine from New Zealand for 2011 will be made at Indevin

The largest tanks they have is 250,000 Liters

The past two weeks have been very busy with clients bringing in grape samples.  We check the maturity level of the grape clusters.  This is where we collect the samples and process them.  

I check in the clients and collect their samples (sometimes as many as 40 from one client), and if they drop off the samples bye 12:30pm, they can have their results on SO2, Brix, and TA bye 6pm the same day. 

After checking in the samples we crush them in these machines before bringing them up to the lab to run the tests. 

 

We will start getting grapes in as early as next week and the first week of April will be the busiest time for us. The amount of people that will be working the harvest in the lab, and cellar will be more than 150 people! I will be taking more pictures next week and once we receive grapes and begin the busy harvest! Thank you everyone for reading, check back soon for more updates!