Harvest Date November 2

Growing Season A cool, damp, spring delayed the start of the growing season, and contributed to a small crop yield. An extended, warm Indian Summer in the Carneros allowed the fruit to reach full maturity with rich, complex flavors.

Winemaking

• Hand-harvested grapes
• Fermented in open-top stainless steel fermentors
• 5-day cold soak, 20 days on skins
• Fermentation with indigenous yeasts
• Spontaneous malolactic fermentation in barrels
• Aged 21-months in Taransaud French oak barrels, 70% new
• Bottled unfined and unfiltered, August, 2000