Harvest Date October 4 & 22

Growing Season The long, cool La Niña summer of 1999 promoted excellent flavor retention in the grapes, with high acidity and low pH. The warm Indian summer weather in October fully ripened the fruit to produce some of the best wines of the decade.

Winemaking

• Hand-harvested grapes
• Whole cluster, direct to press
• Barrel fermented with indigenous yeast, 8 months to completion
• Concurrent spontaneous malolactic fermentation
• Barrel aged 10 months in French oak barrels, 55% new, sur lies and stirred
• Bottled unfined, unfiltered August 2000