Vintages
Description
Warm/Fresh.
A mild winter was followed by a warm spring and good rainfalls led to a significant advance in budding of at least 15 days. Both May and June were fresh and with good rainfalls favoring the vegetative phase. A very hot July and mid August followed. The good water reserve from May-June, kept by the well managed clay-limestone soil, helped the vine not to suffer too much the heat. Few rain events in August and in September mitigated the final part of the season. The Harvest started earlier than usual, during the first ten days of September. Grapes were very healthy, with a bit less of juice than usual (due to the hot summer) reducing the production of around 20% less than average.
Warm/Rainy.
Both a mild winter and spring. May and June, which were cold and very rainy. A small hailstorm hit a small part of a vineyard. Downy mildew has hit the vineyards hard. At the end we had less than 50% of production. Only one wine produced.
Warm/Hot vintage.
Both a mild winter and a mild and early spring resulted in an early budding of the vines. After that all vegetative phases did continue to stay ahead to their normal time. The summer was very hot with some heavy rain episodes. First important rain arrived at the end of July. These rains brought some relief and avoided any vine hydric stress during the very important period of ripening. The harvest started almost one week earlier (10 September) than previous year and with good weather. Starting from mid September small but frequent rains alternated to sunny and shining days. This situation conditioned and delayed the harvest operations. Grapes where perfect. Only in the last few days of the harvest few ruined berries started to show up on the bunches. All data analysis did show that the vines did not suffer of any stress.
Warm/Hot.
Dry and cold spring. In April few episodes of late frosts. The summer was warm and very dry with continuous high temperatures rather then heat waves like in the previous years. June had an average temperature of at least 3°C above average (1981-2010 reference average ), followed by a July with at least 1.5°C above the average. Two main rainfall events, one in July and one in August helped the vintage. At the end of August the arrival of some rain events brought with them an important temperature day-night shift. Shortly, we have great quality but with less quantity (around 15% less than previous vintage).
Warm/Fresh.
Warm and dry winter. Rain concentrated in March. Cold wave delaying budding at the end of March. Warm summer . But with different alternated hot and cold waves. Fresh nights in summer. Some rains at harvest gave us perfect and ‘washed’ grapes.
Warm/Fresh.
Cold winter, mild and rainy spring (mainly May). Hot summer with 3 hot waves mitigated by frequent rains. Good weather at harvest. An explosion of heat at the beginning of September.
Well balanced vintage.
Rainy winter and spring with temperatures in average. Warm summer with different refreshing thunderstorms. Good production
Hot vintage.
Winter in average with important snow events. Mild spring with little rain. Strong frost 21st April . Dry/Hot summer. Small production due to frost (mid April).
Fresh vintage.
Rainy spring and summer with rains every week.
Warm vintage.
Rainy spring, dry summer.
Hot and Very rainy
Good at harvest time. Small production due to a lot of selection to be done.
Warm/Fresh vintage.
Apart from a very hot August.
Hot vintage.
A rainy September at harvest time helped a lot the vines.
Very hot and dry vintage
Warm vintage.
Winter in average followed by both rainy spring and summer.
Warm vintage.
Rainy winter as well as spring. Rainy June. Very hot and dry summer.
Warm vintage.
Winter in average but very dry. Rainy spring. Rainy June. Hot and dry summer.
Hot vintage.
Dry and mild winter. Few rains during sping time.
Fresh vintage.
Cold winter (little snow), rainy spring.
