September 18, 2006
Only a few showers have materialized over the past few days, and all continues to look good on the vineyard front. As of now the plan is to start our 2006 harvest with a couple of blocks of Shea vineyard on Friday the 22nd. Interestingly enough, last year we started on the 23rd…
We had all of the team together Saturday night at Park Kitchen in Portland for a little pre-harvest feast. The food was divine, and a bottle of one of Jacky Truchot’s last wines – an ’03 Morey-St. Denis 1er Cru – was absolutely gorgeous. He truly was a genius in finding the elegance and finesse from his vineyards. It is sad that with his retirement, there is one less producer of his caliber in the world…
Back to the matters at hand – it will be very interesting to work with a few new sites this year for the first time. Our biodynamic blocks at Momtazi should be ready on the earlier side – perhaps in 7 days or so? Also our new blocks at Zena Heights down in the Eola Hills are developing nicely – we should be a week-10 days away from picking those as well…
