Soil Health 

Soil health and nutrition continues to be a major focus for Sacred Hill Wines, to ensure our vineyards are productive and sustainable for future generations.

In early spring we apply organic mulch to the driest areas of our Gimblett Gravels vineyard, to conserve water and minimise irrigation requirements.

Our vineyard team is working on benchmarking various vineyard practises, with the view to reducing the number of passes a tractor makes in a vineyard each year, thereby reducing fuel usage and related costs, and minimising soil compaction.

Over winter we grow cover crops that are cultivated into the soil in spring to replace nitrogen and other nutrients the vines extract from the soil, reducing the need to add inorganic fertilisers.

Inorganic fungicide usage is limited and only used as necessary for crop protection. It is used in conjunction with organic and environmentally friendly methods of pest and disease control as a means of sustainable production.