Well, we’ve got all the Pinot Noir for 2009 in the fermentors.  The numbers-sugar & acidity, look excellent.  The color looks great.  Now we’ll wait to see what flavors show up-will they be big bold wines like 2006?  Many people think so, but as always, we’ll have to see.  Pinot has a way of surprising you-and I’m sure in a few years we’ll be refering to a harvest as ‘just like 2009′.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That’s in the future for now.  Currently, the wines is cruising through primary(sugar to alcohol) fermentation or still in cold soak (so, technically, not yet a wine!).  Over the next few weeks we’ll press the wine  as it finishes primary fermentation and get it into barrels and start the secondary (aka Malo-Lactic) fermentation.