Harvest Notes
With heavy December rainfall, we had hoped for a normal, wet month of February. Instead, we saw the earliest bud break on record and a long spring of frost protection worries. However, the warm, dry winter brought us our 4th year of drought, freak hailstorms, and a long, extended bloom in our red varieties. We called the vintage the “hot tub time machine,” which behaved much like our 2007 vintage. It began fast and early, but experience has taught us to have patience to wait for flavor development in order to create wines of which to be proud…again!