Last Week of Harvest

Today we pick the last Hardscrabble Cabernet Sauvignon. The skin tannins have relaxed and it should serve as a nice foundation for Linden’s red blends. That is it for the red grapes. Petit Manseng will be picked on Friday. That will be it for Vintage 2022.

This has been the vintage of ups and downs and highs and lows. Picking strategies and the logistics of harvesting lots of grapes quickly was particularly important this year. September and especially October gave us long strings of perfect ripening days. They also gave us two big rain events (early September and again in early October).

Wine quality will be good. How good remains a question that the wine will reveal this winter. This vintage was atypical. Rainfall and temperature fluctuations throughout the entire season make for a difficult read.

Now our attention turns solely to the cellar. All the wines are in the critical fermentation phase. They need constant monitoring, especially towards the end of fermentation when the yeasts are tired and can sometimes struggle to finish the job. But the pressure of weather unknowns is now off the table. We can relax.

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Linden Vineyards / Learn More / Latest at Linden | Journal: October 12, 2022