Harvest Date October 4-6

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, cold
• Barrel fermented with indigenous yeasts; 2 months to completion
• Concurrent spontaneous malolactic fermentation in barrels; 7 months to completion
• Aged 15 months in Francois Freres, Seguin Moreau, Alain Fouquet, Sirugue and Cadus French oak barrels; 70% new
• Aged sur lies and stirred biweekly
• Unblended, unfined and unfiltered; bottled January 2007