Spring has arrived at Elgin Ridge after a very wet winter. Each season our vines burst into life looking healthier and healthier, The vineyards which produce our organic wines have not been sprayed with any chemical for over 7 years. Which might be why our wines receive such rave reviews.

We are often asked, how can we farm organically when many vineyard owners get very low yields, but at Elgin Ridge, we are blessed achieving really good yields. So take a look at what happens at Elgin Ridge behind the scenes to make our wonderful wines.

At Elgin Ridge we never use chemical to control pests, we use ducks instead

We never use insecticides, as each vine has a band of fluffy material to stop insects crawling up the vine

We make and use biodynamic preparations from our own cow dung and make our all our own compost from cellar waste and any organic material on the farm.

A big work load farming organically is weeding each row of vines by hand, having visited Burgundy last year, and seen how horses are used to plough the weeds back into the soil, we now have Maddox on the farm, Maddox a gentle, enormous, Percheron, loves ploughing. He only needed two training sessions and he was ready for work.