Harvest 2012
We can’t remember a better harvest and vintage since we started in the Oregon wine industry. The picking window was wide open and the flavor development and sugars were right on target with a “normal” Oregon harvest date, the first or second week of October. We leisurely applied the nets but the bird pressure was light and we didn’t feel the need to panic like the previous two seasons.The warm Indian Summer was spectacular, not only for grape growers, but for all Oregonians it was a well deserved span of dry warm days in September and a gentle start to October and the threat of rain was not hanging over our heads. What a gift to boast of ripe, clean...