Things have been moving along rather briskly here for being the 'off' season!
We finished racking the last of our '06 BDX reds today, the 06 Cab Sauv Gist is back in barrel and looking great. Its a pretty suave wine for that vineyard, which usually produces ferociously tannic juice. One of the hallmarks of the '06 vintage is the seamless nature of the wines, they will drink awfully well in their youth.
I am off to a Biodynamic class at Joseph Phelps Vineyards tomorrow. Philippe Armenier and his wife are teaching it and it should be very interesting.
On Friday I am off to one of my favorite places in California, the Anderson Valley in northern Mendocino County. In my mental dictionary there is a large panoramic of the Anderson Valley under the word bucolic. The 3rd annual International Alsace Varietals Festival is being held on Saturday and we are there to pour our '06 Gewürztraminer and '03 Late Harvest Gewürztraminer. I attended last year and had a great time, there are a lot of interesting wines and the atmosphere is refreshingly laid back.
We are gearing up for a big month of bottling in March- 3 different runs no less! It should be pretty exciting as we bottle the first wines from '07 and our '06 Chardonnays. Bottling is always stressful, but once the wine is in bottle it is a large weight of my shoulder, no more SO2's, VA's, etc. All we have to do is sell it!
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Winegrowing through the eyes of Nathan Kandler, Associate Winemaker
2 comments:
Hey, Nathan. I just found your blog. Oh, how I remember the stress of bottling (the stress in my neck and sides anyway). Glad to see you writing and just memed you to share some personal info...
oh no, got me huh! this is going to take some thought!
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