Harvest Date October 2
Growing Season Moderate production, outstanding growing season.
Winemaking
• hand-harvested grapes
• fermented in open-top stainless steel fermentors
• 5-day cold maceration, 30 days total maceration
• Fermentation indigenous yeast only
• Malo-lactic fermentation in barrels
• Aged 20-months in 225L tight-grain French oak barrels, 50% new Taransaud
• Unblended, unfiltered; bottled August 1995