Harvest Date October 10 - October 31

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; 3 months to completion
• Concurrent native malolactic fermentation in barrels; 5 to 7
months to completion
• Aged 11 months in French oak barrels; 55% new; sur-lies aged and stirred biweekly
• Unfined and unfiltered; bottled September 2006