2018 Vintage

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2018 Vintage

Cool, long and very slow, the 2018 growing season led up to the latest harvest I’ve experienced in more than twenty years of making wine. While late harvests can be scary, as fall sets in and the onset of winter rains approach, they can also lead to exceptional flavor development in the grapes. In warmer seasons we sometimes see sugars rise before flavors are all the way there; not so this year. By the time we got sugars where we like them, flavors were rich and concentrated, and since 90% of the flavor in any wine was in the grapes at harvest, this was a very good thing.