NOV. 17th

The Gamay juice was pressed off to seperate the skins and pulp. The wine has not yet completed fermentation so the pressed off juice will continue in tank.

OCT. 30th

The Gamay Vineyard was picked this morning before the expected rains tomorrow. Just under 4 tons arrived and will be processed 100% stem inclusion, whole cluster, carbonic maceration fermentation with no punch downs.

Oct. 15th

We have been experiencing a great Indian summer, beautiful sunny days in the mid 70's consistently since October 1.

Mat went to look at the Gamay vineyard today and reports that it is still not fully ripe to pick. The Gamay is always the last vineyard to come in and this year due to the general early ripening, the gamay will be much later than all else. Still looks like a week to 10 days before we'll pick.

All Pinot's are in barrel.

Oct. 4

The last of the Pinot was transferred from tank to barrel.

OCT.2

Went over to Knights Valley to look at the Gamay Vineyard. It looks like it will be 2 more weeks before we will pick.

SEPT.16th

The Ruxton juice was transferred from fermenting tank to barrel.

Temperatures have remained in the mid 70's. Fall is feeling very close.


TNT, Horseshe Bend & Tenuda Ridge Vineyards continue to have 3 manual punch downs daily.

We will be checking on the Gamay Vineyard this week.

SEPT. 14th

The last of our Pinot vineyards was picked today; Tanuda Ridge vineyard brought in 3 tons of fruit looking very good.

Temperatures have been cooler since Sept. 7th with morning and evening fog and sun coming up to warm us up by 11am.
We have been continuing with our three punch downs daily.

SEPT. 6th

TNT and Horseshoe Bend vineyards both came in this week.

The last 6 rows of Ruxton was picked this morning by our friends & family crew. We picked one tone in 3 hours.

Temperatures remained in the high 90's until sunday Sept. 7th.

Sept. 1, 2008

Our 1st grapes of 2008 arrive early monday morning. Ruxton Vineyard was picked at an average of 25 brix, 8 tons arrived to be stored in the cold room over night, sorted tuesday morning. We left a few rows at Ruxton unpicked that were not quite ripe & plan to follow up in the next week.

August 2008

Our weather patterns have been varied; Several hot days with a few sporatic cool days in the mid 70's. There has been little fog this month, no precipitation and little cloud. The average temperature for August has been in the 90's which is above average.

We have been watching the vineyards very closely expecting to be picking earlier this year.

July 2008

Veraison is apparent and a few weeks ahead of target.

Spring of 2008

The worst frosts recorded in over 30 years. Several friends lost many vines to frost. Thus far we have been spared, the knights valley gamay is the only vineyard that had frost damage. We will not know exactly how much loss until the grapes are picked later this year. We will most likely not produce a 2008 chardonnay due to grapes damaged by frost.