Monday, January 4, 2021

Recap of Vintage 2020

Every month, I try to write a blog about what the month was about and I have been doing this since 2015. All of these blogposts are located under the Vintages Notes Tab, located at the top of this blog.
It is time again to collate all of the blogs related to Vintage 2020. It amazed me when I was going through the posts that I wrote a blogpost last year on this very day, and remarked how warm January was and how we were still working in the vineyard rolling up our netting.
Here are the Vintage Notes for 2020:
Vintage 2020
Vintage 2020: Winter
Vintage 2020: February
Vintage 2020: Pruning Time
Vintage 2020: Still Pruning
Vintage 2020: Spring Help in the Vineyard
Vintage 2020: April Weather
Vintage 2020: May Cold Temperatures
Vintage 2020: Got Rain Will Grow
Vintage 2020: June Update
Vintage 2020: July Brings Needed Rain
Vintage 2020: Summer Heat Waves
Vintage 2020: Auxerrois at VĂ©raison
Vintage 2020: Getting Ready for Chenin Blanc Harvest
Vintage 2020: Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc Harvest
Vintage 2020: Harvesting our First Crop of Barbera
Vintage 2020: December Weather Highs and Lows
What I will remember about 2020 will be a warm winter followed by a cool spring and then a summer of heat waves. Luckily for us, the heat wave allowed our grapes to accumulate the highest level of Brix that we had ever seen. Our stellar crew and Jonathan Edwards helped us with the harvest and processing the harvest and now we settle in for a small respite.
Looking ahead, it appears that the weather this year is similar to last years with warm weather for the first week of the new year. The vineyard is calling us to get out and do some pre-pruning preparations.

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