One of the inevitabilities about farming a vineyard is that at some point you are going to have to do some occasional replanting. Our vineyard is entering its 21st leaf and as caretaker for those 21 years I have a keen sense of its strengths as well as its needs. In...
Vintage Notes
The 2008 growing season got off to a slow start. Spring did not really show her face around the farm until May – this gave us bud-break almost a full two weeks later than usual. From there the season continued to plod along slowly but steadily with mild temperatures....
“But first…are you experienced?” - Jimi Hendrix
Every harvest is different, but the 2007 harvest was one of those unique periods of time we look back on with amazement at what was accomplished, while in the moment it felt...
While tasting and assembling the 2006 cuvées we spent a good deal of time discussing what it is that defines a vintage as great. We concluded that in addition to being a sweeping generalization, how you define a “great vintage” really depends on who you are and...
Often we read these winery vintage notes and wonder if there is ever a difficult vintage anywhere. It seems as though every vintage, year in and year out, is the best vintage that anyone at the winery can remember. How is this possible? Has the challenging vintage gone the way of the $...
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