As an agricultural enterprise, we are in synch with our culture’s calendar, developed when the vast majority of people still lived and worked on farms. It’s quiet in the winery and in the vineyards now, so there is time to celebrate the holidays and to reflect both on the past year and the one to come.
Kenneth reports that all of the wines are good and stable, so he can relax. We carefully watched a couple of our Russian River blocks that were hard hit by frost and then ripened quickly with the heat. Something happens when fruit is stressed that increases the chances of getting a stuck fermentation at the end. Because we are very hands-off and gentle, we try to nudge through and we succeeded.
Fruit from other blocks also went through some weather extremes but had enough time to recover and ticked along ripening slowly. That fruit was very … More…
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