WINE TECHNICALS

Harvest date:  September 22, 2015
Fruit source:  own-rooted Pommard clone planted 1979
Grapes at harvest: Brix 23.5, pH 3.15, TA 6.4 gr/liter
Finished wine: Alcohol 13.8%, pH 3.56, TA 5.7 gr/liter
Barrel aged 17 months in French oak, 50% new barrels
132 cases produced
Bottled unfined April 11, 2017

WINEMAKER NOTES

Because the Cauldron is one of the warmer parts of our property, my concern with warmer years like 2015 is that the wines will reflect the growing season more than where the grapes are planted, so our team was very careful with extraction in 2015.  The resulting wine from the Cauldron is imbued with black cherry and raspberry and the earthen complexity we have come to expect from our old vine Pommard blocks.