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

I haven’t wanted to talk about this. I haven’t wanted to talk about anything to do with this year, for a long time. There’s a reason my 2020 Vintage update waited until today to be written as well, I think I had to be ready to talk about this as well. But I want to write about it now, because we frame history in our understanding of it, from whatever distance. I want to commit something to paper, so in 5, 10, 20 years, it’s here. My honest belief is that we will as a whole co