2025 Harvest Begins!

8/31/2025 - The past week in the cellar:

Harvest has begun! Last week, we started with sparkling base wine picks from our Estate's Chardonnay Blocks 13 and 4. The fruit was in beautiful condition and tasted wonderful! Our sparkling base was whole cluster pressed with minimal skin contact and sent off to neutral barrels to ferment.
 
We also picked our still Rosé of Pinot Noir last week from Block 7, which is all Pommard clone. It was also in wonderful condition and tasted to have the precursors for delicious fruity and floral notes in the final wine! It has been whole cluster pressed to tank where it is undergoing fermentation in mostly stainless steel tanks.
 
Along with processing those grapes we have been cleaning and preparing all week for more picking which began today with the first of our still Chardonnay fruit. Surveying the vineyard for optimal ripeness for our Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and Nebbiolo will be a major focus in the days (and weeks) to come!

Cheers!
Myles