VINTAGE
The 2007 vintage got off to a late start due to extremely cold weather in January which put our vines into a deep dormancy. White Riesling is typically the last variety to push buds, but the mid-April budbreak was late even for Riesling in the Arroyo Seco. We had good cluster numbers in 2007, but as the cool growing season progressed, we realized that the clusters were going to be lighter, producing a smaller yield than average. The cool, moist summer months created ideal conditions for development of Botrytis (the ‰ÛÏNoble Mold‰۝) on our Riesling grapes. By mid-October we saw that we had a sufficient Botrytis to warrant our harvest crew selecting and hand-picking only the most affected clusters for our late harvest White Riesling, giving dried apricot flavors with tantalizingly high acid and over 30å¡ Brix of natural grape sugar.