It's now Sept 5th and its looking like harvest is only a few weeks away for all our vineyards. We've been getting frequent updates from Puma Springs Vineyards who grows our Cabernet Sauvignon and harvest is definately coming earlier than last year. They harvested Merlot on Wednesday. It's not uncommon for the Cabernet to come in mid to late October but this year will likely be before the end of September and the weather in Dry Creek Valley is warm right now. Brix is approaching 22.
Everything else is lining up great.
Our 2006 Cabernet is in the bottle waiting for its big debut around Nov/Dec. Since we only produced 59 cases this wine is going to go fast and Gary and I are still figuring out our channel strategy for such a limited production. For lots of reasons we're going to make a little more Cab this year than we did in 2006 & 2007. It is a lot of effort for just 59 cases so this year we plan to pick two tons, or about 120 cases. This still means there won't be more of our Cab until fall 2010, wow!! Wine takes a lot of patience.
Our new french oak barrels for this years harvest are waiting for us up in the warehouse in Napa. We've got enough to get that 25-30% blend we generally like for all our wines.
We'll bottle our 2007 Chardonnay next week and plan to release it early 2009. Another great vintage for Chardonany!
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