Full moon rise over Shiraz, 18 January
We dont take photos often enough… Too busy working. But this moment was magic!
Happy New Year from Rosnay, and reflections on 2010
We would like to wish all our friends and customers a happy, fruitful, and organic 2011. Thanks for your support and appreciation of good food and wine, grown naturally and without chemicals. As we say goodbye to 2010 we’d like to mention a few of the highlights of the year that passed so quickly for … Read more
Downy Mildew: Worst in 20 years
Right now, chemical suppliers can hardly keep up with demand for fungicides to control what is said to be the largest downy mildew outbreak Australia has seen for 2 decades. According to ABC Radio, Riverland branch of chemical producer, Landmark, says it has sold up to 10 times the amount of downy mildew chemicals it … Read more
Arrowleaf Clover – Wonder Legume
As you would know if you’ve done organic gardening, legumes are the fertility generators of an organic system. Legumes fix nitrogen from the atmosphere through a symbiotic relationship with rhizobia bacteria that live on their roots and form little “nodules” on them. We love our many legumes, including white clover, sub clover, and this season … Read more
Where can you get Rosnay?
If you would like to become a retailer please complete and return the Credit Application Form and we will send our nearest sales representative to meet with you.If you sell any Rosnay products but you are not coming up on this map (for example, you do not purchase direct from us but via a wholesaler), … Read more
Celebrate Life with our Bubbly Beauties
Life is too short to drink bad wine, but its also too short to drink wine that gives you a hangover. We have just released our fourth vintage of our “hangover free” Bubbly Beauties, the 2010 Vintage Chardonnay.Just like the 2009 VC, its made not only with organic and biodynamic grapes, but the “dosage” that … Read more
Spring 2010 Weather Report from Rosnay
“Water is the essence of life” D Mann, 1990This was the in joke in our geography class 20 years ago. Well now after the worst drought in living memory, there is no more humour in this statement – just stark reality. Here at Rosnay we have seen the vines go through some difficult teenage years. … Read more
Black and White Ball – What a Night!
The Rosnay Table Last night Richard, Sam and Simone Statham, along with 7 other family and friends, had the honour of attending the 74th Black and White Ball at the Sydney Four Seasons Hotel, as official wine sponsors. The Black and White Ball is an Australian tradition which begn in 1936 and which has for … Read more
Biodynamics – Try it before you get skeptical
We began practicing the biodynamic (BD) method of agriculture at Rosnay in 1997, when we started. At the time, it was just part of a “shotgun” approach to organic farming – throwing absolutely everything we could at getting the soil back to life, and growing healthy plants. To this day we do not profess to … Read more
The Totally Organic Wine Dinner – Eco-Gastonomical Highlight of Wine Week
Well, the Cowra Wine region may have 4 organic producers, or 25% of its wine producers certified organic, but the Orange wine region has one of Australia’s most successful organic wineries with Tamburlaine’s certified organic vineyard at Borenore. Rosnay and Tamburlaine are now teaming up with the famous Union Bank restaurant and bar in Orange … Read more