Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Last chance for Mitchell Harris Footy Tipping!! The Siren is sounding....







Yes, tipsters, can you believe it?

IT'S FOOTY TIME AGAIN!!!

The balmy summer is over, Gold Coast has joined the ranks and the St Kilda boys have got their balls out ready for round 1...
Let the season begin!

What other footy tipping comp offers you the chance to win a bottle of wine from one of Victoria's top producers~
 EVERY SINGLE WEEK!!
Plus heaps of side comps and prizes during the year and a ripper but yet to be announced final prize!

So, for all our tipsters from last year, all you have to do is login here with last year's username and password and reactivate your account. Get on there, update any details, add a picture if you want...

 HOW TO JOIN
For all new tipsters simply click here and use the password plugger to join the Mitchell Harris Mates competition. 
Alternatively, you can head to www.footytips.com.au and search for the Mitchell Harris Mates comp to join.

Then enter your details and you are set to tip!


And just e-mail 

with any questions or problems logging in.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Picking the Pinot... Vintage 2011 gets underway

After our 2011 summer of discontent, it's finally come time to start on Vintage 2011! First off the rank is our sparkling fruit, which, after surviving a season of floods and humidity, has benefited from a nice slow ripening period.



The (finally) ripe bunches of Pinot Noir.


As you can see, our Macedon Pinot Noir fruit looks terrific, thanks to some hard work in the vineyard, nestled in the northern foothills of the Macedon Ranges.


Mitchell Harris gathers its Pinot Noir near Kyneton in the north of the Macedon Ranges.


Pressed and processed, it's then back up to the Pyrenees for fermentation and to have Johnno work his magic on it over the next few months.



John Harris surveying the 2011 crop



At that stage, the Pinot will be blended with our Chardonnay fruit, and tiraged into bottle to spend the next three or more years on lees, after which it can be disgorged to make our "Sabre by Mitchell Harris" sparkling.

Those with less patience will see the Pinot Noir pressings blended with our Pyrenees Sangiovese to create our second Rosé release, later in 2011.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

MITCHELL HARRIS FOOTY TIPPING - BACK FOR 2011!







Yes, tipsters, can you believe it?

IT'S FOOTY TIME AGAIN!!!

The balmy summer is over, Gold Coast has joined the ranks and the St Kilda boys have got their balls out ready for round 1...
Let the season begin!

What other footy tipping comp offers you the chance to win a bottle of wine from one of Victoria's top producers~
 EVERY SINGLE WEEK!!
Plus heaps of side comps and prizes during the year and a ripper but yet to be announced final prize!

So, for all our tipsters from last year, all you have to do is login here with last year's username and password and reactivate your account. Get on there, update any details, add a picture if you want...

 HOW TO JOIN
For all new tipsters simply click here and use the password plugger to join the Mitchell Harris Mates competition. 
Alternatively, you can head to www.footytips.com.au and search for the Mitchell Harris Mates comp to join.

Then enter your details and you are set to tip!


And just e-mail 

with any questions or problems logging in.




PS: Want to enter your tips with your mobile phone? 

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Mitchell Harris Wines and the iPad

With the release of the iPad today, we thought we'd explain how here at Mitchell Harris as we've incorporated the iPad into our everyday workflow. With a couple of iPads, our iPhones, home and work computers and some cloud technology we can all stay in touch, have up-to-date figures at hand, and stay on top of sales and marketing.








A few of the benefits of bringing the iPad into Mitchell Harris Wines:

Saving trees and the clutter of paper tasting notes and pricing documents. On our trade visits, sommeliers and wine-buyers can peruse prices and winemaking information without piles of paper being printed out and cluttering up offices and bars. Winemaking info is always at hand when showing the wines.
Any documents that sommeliers want to keep can be emailed through immediately.

Staying on top of inventory. We know continuously where stock is being sent, and what remains in the warehouse or winery at any particular time.

Sales orders can be sent through immediately to the warehouse, and invoices generated, receipts sent, all pretty much at the site of the sale.

Using the Apps such as Numbers, we can work on our production or sales spreadsheets on a train or anywhere, continuously uploading them to our "cloud," where we can all contribute at any time.

Our photo library becomes a "stock library" where we have access to Mitchell Harris images (such as bottle images,) that we can then use in blogs, emails or the like. (It also looks terrific as a slideshow when out pouring and selling booze!)

Getting photos onto the iPad is really easy with the camera connector, then editing them with Photogene, CameraBag or something similar we can share great images in no time.

Blogging (I'm writing this on the ipad using BlogPress now) or staying in touch via Twitter or Facebook is obviously a doddle with the iPad, and makes good use of the odd spare moment. So too is replying to emails whilst out and about.

It's an ultimate note-pad / diary / ideas depository.

A bit of down-time whilst on the road is easily filled with some books on iBooks or a couple of mags on the Zinio app.

So there are just a few ways the iPad has helped a tiny winemaking business like ours, love to hear if you've any great ideas or tips.

And, of course, here's our fearless winemaker, John Harris using a massive spreadsheet during his trial of the brand new iPad...





Stick to the fermenters and barrels JH!