A blend this year of four of our very favorite vineyards: Weber, Winderlea, Temperance Hill and Daffodil Hill. The first two offer gorgeous Dundee Hills red fruit, floral elegance and exotic spice; the latter two from the Eola hills bringing on blue notes, earthiness, and structure. As ever, 'Autograph' is Rob's picture of the vintage; who better than he to interpret what each harvest means to us? He says 2007 made him feel like he was in a summer Oregon forest.
2007 Vintage Report
What a year! If you remember the weather in 2007 you'll remember one thing - rain. The spring wasn't too bad, and we actually had a pretty good set. But we had several unseasonably cool and rainy weeks throughout the summer and early fall. Followed by buckets and buckets of rain in October.
Luckily we were able to get some of our fruit for sparkling in before the end of September, and a little bit of Cabernet from Klipsun Vineyard in Eastern Washing (we put it in our port). Other than that, we just had to hold tight. It was brutal because the fruit wasn't ripe, and the rain just kept coming. We were dreaming of arks and keeping our fingers crossed that it would eventually stop.
We gambled, and sure enough, we won. The sun came out on the 23rd of October and we had gorgeous wetehr till the end of the month. We gave things a few days to dry out and sweeten up, and bam, we went out and picked it all. Somehow we survived, and actually prodcued some incredible wines, in spite of it all. Welcome to Oregon.
A rich forest floor beneath, combination of wildflowers, leaves, mushrooms - but oh, the red, red fruits above, whispering. Complex, seductive, not overpowering. Many secrets to be read in this 'Autograph'.
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