It’s been a specific year – mild winter, warm spring and summer with lots of precipitations – and this has affected fertilization of grapes, leading to reduced yield during flowering time. It was hard to preserve vineyards, but sunny August and September have brought good quality to stum and grapes, although with reduced yield. The harvest began on 15 September by picking Sauvignon blanc, which had remarkable quality and 25.2 brix stum, so all the conditions and potential are there for wine to be as great as that of the last harvest.
We harvested Tamjanika some ten days later. The grapes were healthy and ripe, the yield was reduced, but the quality was outstanding. The brix level of the stum was 24.5. Now is the fermentation time, so one can hear its pleasant whisper from the cellar as if it’s talking to the winemaker.
The harvest of Merlot and grapes for Rose is scheduled for next week. Cabernet Sauvignon, Prokupac and Chiraz will be harvested around 20th October.
