6/14/2012
recalculating the updated wine volumes due to the increased fruit loads.

This years spring weather has been pretty spectacular and all the fruit sets I'm seeing are up appreciably from the last couple years. Having said that I will try to temper that somewhat with reporting ( also ) most all the fruit we've contracted for ( Watson zin, Valdez sauv blanc and Torres pinot ) is NOT being farmed for high tons. Most all blocks I've seen are being farmed very much for high quality ( low bud counts and low pounds per vine )

So I don't expect to see an unusually high yield from the contracted growers, but remember that is still relative, I still expect, weather holding, we will see an increase in tons this year from 2010 / 2011 levels.