Harvest Date October 16 & 24

Growing Season Extended, cool spring weather resulted in late bud break. An ideal, long, temperate growing season followed, allowing for slow, full and even ripening of the fruit. Harvest began later than usual. The resulting wines can be characterized as rich and elegant with gorgeous aromatics.

Winemaking

• Hand-harvested grapes
• Whole cluster, direct to press
• Barrel fermented with indigenous yeasts; 2 months and a half to completion
• Concurrent spontaneous malolactic fermentation, 4 months to completion
• Aged 11 months in French oak barrels; 65% new, sur lies and stirred biweekly
• Unblended, unfined and unfiltered; bottled September 2006