VINTAGE
After the warmest winter in Vermont history, the vines awoke just a bit earlier than normal but managed to avoid spring frost–a welcome correction from the devastating year prior. A very wet 2023 left plenty of water in the soil for the vines to get a quick start, growing vigorously in an otherwise warm, dry spring. Perfect weather during bloom and, perhaps, the vineyard’s determination to get back to growing grapes led to an excellent fruit set. Summer brought heat and humidity and, with it, disease pressure, making timely canopy management critical. In late August began a stretch of perfect weather with almost no rainfall until the end of September, allowing us to pick at peak ripeness all month long and into October. The 2024 vintage will be remembered for its abundance of fruit and for its wines of power and richness.
VINEYARD
100% Lower Vineyard La Crescent. Planted in 2004 on 8’ x 13’ spacing and trained on Geneva Double Curtain, these are big vines with plenty of room to grow. And with the silty clays so typical of the Champlain Valley providing plenty of water and nutrients, oh boy, do they grow
WINEMAKING
The fruit we picked on the rst day was destemmed and held on its skins in the winery before being drained and pressed about 24 hours later. This juice was combined with the second day’s harvest, which was immediately pressed whole cluster. Fermented cold and slow, and arrested by chilling when we liked the balance. 100% stainless.
TASTING NOTES
Orange pith. White ower. Peach rings
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Harvest Date(s): 9/23/24, 9/24/24
Composition: 100% La Crescent
Alcohol: 13.7%
pH: 3.12
Titratable Acidity: 9.7 g/L
Residual Sugar: 19.1 g/L
Cases Produced: 101