We worked all last week mixing and tasting our final bench trials before we blended our final wines for 2015. The work was very gratifying as we sampled 15 - 20 samples of each of our wines at various sweetness levels and proportions. The final blends were very similar to our wines from last year so there were no really big surprises. The most pleasant surprise was in the quality of our red wines from the 2013 vintage year. We really liked the flavores and maturity of the grapes from that Fall's harvest!
If you remember 2013 it was a very early spring with the grapes breaking their buds in mid-March followed by a wet May and June. The rain let up in mid-July and gave way to a very warm, dry August - October. We were able to pick all of our grapes at the peak of their flavores and the new wines are really showing excellent character. We will be entering the wines in several shows so it will be interesting to see if other people like it as much as we do.
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