2020 Vintage
An extremely long, slow vintage. A bit of an eye opener for most of us in the Yarra. We keep talking about the effects of global warming on faster ripening, and then mother nature throws us this curveball vintage. I saw things I’d never seen before, entire ferments finishing before the next varietal was ready to pick (and my ferments are real slow), I had Sangiovese on vine for ballpark of 10 days without any leaves left on the vine, just cashing in whatever reserves were lef