Harvest Date September 23

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
• Fermented in small, open-top stainless steel fermentors with indigenous yeasts
• 6-day cold soak, 19 days total maceration
• Hand-punched cap
• Concurrent, spontaneous malolactic fermentation in barrels; 5 months to completion
• Aged 15 months in French oak barrels: Francois Freres, Damy, Remond,; 80% new
• Unblended, unfined and unfiltered; bottled January 2007