Harvest Update

Our 2023 Harvest

The 2023 grape growing season has been a test of patience and perseverance. The grapes experienced a delay in bud break, by a few weeks, compared to the last five years. Probably due to the unexpected snowfall in late February that gave our vineyard 5 inches of snow! By April 19^th we had all the blocks budding and beginning to show small leaves. Spring rains further slowed down the bloom, while an atypically cool summer followed. We only recorded a few 100-degree days and experienced a mild August and September.

This mild summer lead to late veraison season where we began seeing color change on the berries in July and did not finish until close to the beginning of September. As we stepped into October, we had hoped that warmer weather that would elevate the grapes' brix to a desirable 25. We finally began our harvest October 12^th with some Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon coming in. We then brought in our Viognier on October 17^th that followed by some more Cabernet Franc on October 24^th. Our last day of harvest was November 4^th that finished with our Malbec.