A Vineyard Story
A Long Time Coming
Fundamentally, wine grapes are tied to mother nature and seasonality. Fine wine farming is dependent on your ability to attend to the moment. A hands-on farming focus is critical to insure a vineyard’s potential capacity to express PLACE….
2020.. What a Year
As apocalypses go, I guess it could be a lot worse…
This year has provided a great deal of challenges, but also an immense amount of ingenuity and new ideas to battle with the new reality we all face.
Runnin’ Down a Dream
Harvest this year @ SJR Vineyard was completed by 9/14. Fermentation went well and we were pressed-off before the end of September. So far, so good! Time for a little reflection….
Harvest 2018
Just like 2017, the heat of the summer ended in mid-August. Going into the Harvest season, daytime temperatures remained in the 80-70’s and evenings in the 50’s, delivering critical flavor development. The rains are just beginning now (perfect for our MHT burial process). Luckily, we had no rain throughout harvest.
This Old Man
No, I am not about to launch into a litany of my personal aches and pains due to pruning the MHT this spring with Brooke! Truth is I was not very much support…Brooke is the MHT Champion….and, youth is not to be trifled with in the vineyard!