Category: Wine Dogs

Why Winemakers Love Their Wine Dogs

Wherever wine is made, you’re likely to find a wine dog wandering through the vineyard, running after a farm bike through the vine rows, snoozing outside the cellar door, and loyally trailing their winemaker about in their daily duties. Visitors to a winery cellar door are often unaware of the vitally important roles these hard […]

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Memoirs of Spit the Sheep Wine Dog

How Spit became a Whicher Ridge Wine Dog … With new lambs being born here on the farm this week, it had me reminiscing about when Spit arrived here unannounced in July 2011, coming home one evening in the front of the ute with Neil. He was not more than a day old. Neil announced […]

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