2011 Harvest: Rain, Rain, Go Away - Vinography: A Wine Blog
Perhaps some of the most significant impacts are being felt in the coolest areas, where in some cases, vineyards will likely not even get ripe enough. Duncan Meyers, the winemaker at Arnot-Roberts (whose Clary Ranch Syrah I reviewed last week) told me via e-mail that it's not clear to him whether that vineyard will make it this year. "We're sitting at around 17 brix," he said, "last year we were harvesting on November 23rd at 20 brix."
Winemaker Jamie Kutch, whose continual quest to produce lower alcohol, higher acidity Pinot Noirs meant that most of his fruit was harvested before the rains was doubly glad this year. "I was just out in Anderson Valley today," he told me on Monday, "and I'm starting to see Botrytis. And man, you don't want that stuff on your grapes. One day its in one cluster, the next day it's in 100 clusters, and the day after that it's in 10,000. It multiplies massively, exponentially."
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