2010 Vintage

2010 was the first year we felt the dramatic effects of poor pruning in 2008 (entirely our fault!) – the vines got infected with Eutypa and we had to cut out a lot of diseased arms. We replanted around 50 vines. The yield dropped to 1.2 tons. We picked with friends, changed our wine-making processes somewhat and bottled in April 2013

1 Sharon Armstrong & Maryann Scanlon

2 Kay LaPlain

3 Aran Healy & Paul Daniels

4 Donna

5 Paul Daniels & yours truly

6 Rosemarie Rossi

7 Yours truly stomping the grapes the old fashioned way

8 Aran Healy & Greg Martin starting the cold soak with dry ice

2010 Picking & Crush

We picked the 2010 crop in late October with a larger group of friends. We sorted the bunches superficially and dropped them into the destemmer which in turn dropped the berries directly into the fermentation tank.