Growing Conditions
The 2022 growing season started with a low primary bud count on a number of varieties due to winter damage. Even though the crop was small we ended up with super concentrated grapes as a result of a warm dry summer. Mother Nature decided that we couldn’t have a perfect vintage so we did face some opposition as harvest approached. At one point it felt like a day didn’t go by without some kind of rain event and this created challenges with fruit breakdown. We managed to mitigate these concerns by harvesting a few varieties earlier than normal but thanks to the warm dry summer, they had already achieved ripeness. We would describe the 2022 vintage as light in yield but high in quality. The red grapes are super concentrated and the whites were able to fully ripen while maintaining their acidity. We believe this vintage will be one of the most well rounded ones in the last decade.
