Background & Tasting Notes:

The frost on 21st April struck the vineyard in some spots more than others. The Merlot, which is planted mostly on limestone and clay soils closer to the river was 100% frozen. Fortunately our top Cabernet Sauvignon on the gravelly slopes which "look out over the river" was partly spared. But in the majority of cases, all the bunches coming from second generation buds, that had grown a few weeks after the frost, had to be removed at colour-change.

Right up to the harvest we had hoped that these conditions, which were looking very similar to those of 1945 and 1961, would also produce a great vintage, but at the last moment we were a little let down by the rain.

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