Oliver's Taranga Mencia 2025

Have you seen our epic 2025 vintage tee design - YEAR OF THE BIRDS - featuring a Rainbow Lorikeet with wings spread? Well, there was a reason 2025 vintage got named ‘Year of the Birds” as the Rainbow Lorikeets decided to absolutely hammer the Mencia vineyard, sucking the juice out of berries as soon as they changed colour. They sat in the trees around the vineyard, dive bombing down in their masses, stealing grapes. We had to keep driving past to put them off their attack. Normally, we don’t need to net the Mencia vineyard, only the early colouring Tempranillo block next door. We aren’t really sure why we were besieged by Rainbow Lorikeets this year in particular. They are very beautiful, but they really started to give us the irrits this year to say the least! The 2025 harvest started super early and we had a lovely warm growing season.