Well, we have just finished de-stemming our final fruit of the year – Maresh blocks 10, 12 & OV, and we are done with crush. Hooray! It’s always a wonderful feeling to have the last of the fruit safely in the winery for the year, especially when it has been such a stellar year. This year provided clearly the best fruit we’ve worked with yet, and the wines should be stunning. I truly believe we will reach new levels with the ’05 wines.

We went to barrel yesterday with Shea blocks 10 and 21, and they are both showing nicely. Block 21 is especially nice – more complex than the other Shea lots, but with similar dark berry flavors and excellent concentration. Tonight we’ll go to barrel with all of the Ribbon Ridge and the Shea clone 828, and everything will be put to bed except for the Maresh that just came in today, of course. Kudos to Kelley and Jeremy for tremendous work. Attention to detail really shows itself in the wines…

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