Happy New Year Everyone! Harvest seems but a distant memory as we are preparing the delicious 2008 Sauvignon blanc for bottling. What a roller coaster of a year it was. The growing season seemed to have a record of about everything, except for maybe rain. Wind, spring heat, spring cold, dry, lightning, fall heat, fall cold…you name it. Grape vines are amazingly resilient and while the crop levels were all over the board, some up, some down, (mostly down), quality appears to be up.
But wait, there’s more! After waiting and waiting, and scheduling and rescheduling, we finally picked our late harvest Sauvignon blanc on…December 5th! The latest pick ever, for us. The fermentation of late harvest wines is quite slow, so in mid-January it is just now finishing up. Just like the earlier part of harvest, it was a long, somewhat impatient wait for the fruit, but well worth it. Wishing all of you the best for 2009!