Sep
2
Spring has sprung…
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I am ashamed to say that I am the worst blogger in the whole of cyberspace. So apologies to anyone who has been checking. However, here I am at last; we have had a great trip to South America, which was both restorative, and incredibly interesting, with the intrepid Travelling Bransons being well out of our comfort zones on many occasions… but it was a fantastic experience. Not much of wine note to mention, except for a particularly good Sauvignon Blanc that I had in Santiago… however, I enjoyed the whole bottle, which had the effect of dulling my memory for things such as name and vineyard!
Things here have been getting busy over the last few weeks, as we approach the bottling of the 2007 wines. This involves making last minute adjustments, to make sure that what goes into the bottle is the very best it can be. The wines are then removed from barrique, and blended in tank, to await bottling. The wines are looking pretty smart, I must say; at this stage, the stand-out wine for me is the 2007 Tempranillo, with the Sangiovese also looking pretty flash. A few months ago, I thought the Petit Verdot was looking a bit drab, but it has reinvented itself in the meantime, and is looking like the big, broad shouldered monster that it is at it’s best. The 07 Shiraz is another one I’m quietly pretty pleased with - a very elegant wine, good nose, finely structured. We have been using Sirugue barrels for some years now, and I am getting a better feel for which oak forests and which toasting levels suit our wines best.
We bottle the wines next week, and I’ve decided to put all wines except for the Shiraz, Merlot and Petit Verdot under screw cap this year. Those of you who know me will know I don’t love screwcaps, but we’ll just see how it goes… I am nothing if not open minded…
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