2009 Almost done…
With 29 vineyards to manage and harvest, it is a fun and challenging matrix to manage the harvests and the arrival of fruit at the winery. As of today, we’ve completed the harvest on 24 vineyards. In every single cuvee’, the fruit is de-stemmed and then slowly and carefully hand-sorted berry by berry on our custom Italian Mori shaker table. Where other wineries go from crusher right into tank, we remove every single raisin, green berry, leafy material leaving on perfect pristine berries headed into the tnak. The result is nothing but pure pristine fruit going into every fermentation. With fast chilling and heat, we’re able to dial our preferred fermentation kinetics quite precisely. These early steps in the winemaking process protects delicate flavors, softens tannins, and assures beautiful elegant mouth-feel and aromas in the bottle years from now.