Vintage 2008

2008 Rests in Barrel

Posted on by Lynne
Iota's third vintage rests in barrel.  14 barrels of beautiful fruit that hung on the vine until October 16th.  Each of our 6 vineyard blocks is represented for the first time:  Ana's Dijon 777, Yiayia and Pappou's Pommard, Abino's Wadenswil, Tonka's Dijon 777, and Oscar's Dijon 667.  The barrel babysitting has begun.  Each barrel already exhibits amazing potential.  Under our watchful eye, time w...
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Harvest 2008-October 16th

Posted on by Lynne
First time for everything.  We picked our whole vineyard-Pelos Sandberg on the same day this year:  Thursday October 16th with the exception of 12 rows of Iota's Yiayia block Pommard that were hand picked late Wednesday October 15th by myself, Don, Pappou and Karen (my sister out to help for the big day)...  We pulled in over 14 tons total shared between Bergstrom Winery, Rex Hill and Iota Cella...
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