Harvest is officially over as of today at noon when the last 3 bins of pinot from Torres arrived at the Torres crush pad. The fruit made its way to Valdez by 1400 hours.
In summary, although we have a couple small batches not finished / finishing, the vast majority of the lots look smell and taste pretty much as our wine maker had hoped they would. for our first year we all should be quite pleased with the characteristics of all the wines. We really look forward to getting the rest to barrels and then immediately begin to " elevate " them to what I think will be a very very attractive lineup of wines. We've learned quite a bit the first year working with the vineyards and have ideas where we can improve, and the wines are all in a very good starting position, some already have a " finished " character that is charming already.
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