2011 Vintage

2011 was our most challenging year to date. Our yield dropped again due to the continuing Eutypa infection and the quality of the grapes was below par due to poor weather conditions. We picked late, in early November and only 0.6 tons. We have no pictores from the harvest; only from the pressing in December 2011 and the bottling in March 2014.

1 Aran Healy runs the free-flow into the press while Brian Robins is watching

2 Yours truly opends the hatch of the fermentation tank to expose the skins and seeds

3 Aran Healy rakes the skins and seeds into the press below the fermentation tank

Pressing in December 2011

We pressed in December with Brian Robins attending as a visitor.

1 David Fenyvesi moving wine from barrel to mixing tank

2 Cleaninng barrel on barrel washer

3 David Fenyvesi filling bottles & Claudia Guldimann corking them

4 Mission accomplished

Bottling in July 2014

We mixed the 2011 cabernet sauvignon barrel with half of the 2012 Merlot barrel to give the wine more body and then we bottled it in July 2014

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