Vintage 2020: Late Harvest Chardonnay

In between our big harvest of Chenin Blanc and harvesting our red varieties, we had a little time to comb through the vineyard looking for grapes that were not harvested. Full disclosure: when we harvested our Chardonnay, we only harvested the very best of the crop because we were too late to put the nets over 4 of the 8 rows of Chardonnay that we grow. These unnetted rows still have some very nice fruit that we are bagging with organza wedding bags for a late harvest Chardonnay.

At this point, some of the grapes are shriveling up into raisins. I took a sampling of the Brix and those raisinated grapes are at 31 Brix!