Harvest Date October 14

Growing Season 2006 was slightly cooler overall than 2005 and began with delayed bud break due to a long, wet spring. The weather warmed in May, continuing through summer and into fall to provide the extended growing season needed for fruit to ripen fully. Harvest began late but was accelerated by mid-harvest rains in early October. Yields on Sonoma Mountain were lower than elsewhere in the Sonoma area.

Winemaking

• Hand-harvested grapes
• Whole cluster press; cold
• Barrel fermented with indigenous yeasts; 4 months to completion
• Concurrent spontaneous malolactic fermentation in barrels
• Aged 11 months in French oak barrels; 91% new
• Aged on the lees; biweekly bâtonnage
• Unblended, unfined and unfiltered; bottled August 2007