Harvest Date October 13 - 20

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 allowed the fruit to reach maturity with rich, complex flavors.

Winemaking

• Hand-harvested grapes
• Whole cluster, direct to press
• Barrel fermented with indigenous yeast, 6 months to completion
• Concurrent native malolactic fermentation in barrels
• Barrel aged 10 months, 40% new French oak, sur-lies and stirred
• Bottled unfined, unfiltered July 1999