Friday, August 3, 2012
Wow, Looks Like Low Yields This Year!
'Had a chance to drive through Yamhill-Carlton, Ribbon Ridge, Dundee Hills, and Eola Hills AVAs today. After feeling poorly about our vineyard's fruit loads, it looks like we're in pretty good shape compared to what I saw at other well-managed, typically good-yielding vineyards. It's hard to say what yields will be this year, but given the rows I could see at these vineyards, I wouldn't be surprised to learn later that 2012 is one of the lower yielding vintages in recent memory. To me, it looks a lot worse than 2010.