Harvest Date October 4

Growing Season The warm days and cool nights on this mountain vineyard above Oakville resulted in grapes with excellent color, fully developed flavors and great acidity. Cool weather during harvest provided enhanced flavor development.

Winemaking

• Hand-harvested grapes
• Fermented in small, open-top stainless steel fermentors
• 5-day cold soak, 21 days total maceration
• Fermentation with indigenous yeasts
• Spontaneous malolactic fermentation in barrels
• Aged 19-months in Taransaud French oak barrels, 60% new
• Bottled unfined and unfiltered, June, 2002