Harvest Date September 26 - October 17

Growing Season A short and hot growing period produced very concentrated, big style wines.

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 11 months, 55% New French oak, sur-lies and stirred
• Bottled unfined, unfiltered December 2003