First of all, we are honored to have once again been selected by leading Burgundy/Pinot critic Allen Meadows as producers of two of the top wines of the vintage! In the new 4th quarter issue of Burghound.com we received a 91 for the ’05 Audrey and a 90 for the ’05 La Paulée (Allen is notoriously stingy with scores – anything over 88 is a big success in his system). Kudos to a couple of our favorite Oregon winemakers – Steve Doerner at Cristom and Russ Raney at Evesham Wood – they grabbed the two top scores of the year (93 and 92), but hey, we’re #3 (and we try harder, or something like that…)

We’re bringing in fruit from our remaining blocks at Momtazi today, in fact the first load is on the truck and headed our way as I write. Kelley and the crew have pressed off and barreled down a couple of the early lots from Maresh over the last two days, and the juice is really really nice. The sunshine has returned, so we should have perfect days for bringing in the last of our 2007 fruit. I’m fighting off some kind of virus/flu (nice timing, right in the middle of crush,eh?) – at this point I’m just hoping to make it through the weekend. More from the trenches as it happens…

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