Harvest Update
I’ve been lazy to write for the last weeks, sorry, but I will try and put you up to date. We pressed our last wine, Carmenere from Escorial, on June 15, last day! Now we are busy racking our 2008 blend from barrels to the tanks to make the final blends, for bottling in November some time. This year we got around 21 new french oak barrels…the hardest part on the finances!
In the vineyard, we have gone on putting compost in, ploughing and closing the soil, we had around 50mm of a good rain on Friday 20 and 21 of June, winter solstice for us. Its been very cold and wet. We burried our 500 prep, horn manure, around June 1, the manure is from our cow. and we burried the yarrow prep 502, near the animals. This next week end we start to prune.
Last wednesday we got our new egg tank!! another crazy thing, but great, we will put our Carmenere from Escorial there, so we will have to wait for 2009 to taste it. But it seems that it should be very nice and expressive, as the egg tank uses the golden number for its building proportions. This is a number ( proportion ) that we find in nature, so this is really exciting for us!We also harvested our olive trees and got 52 kg, which I took to Olave a friend and had it pressed specially for us, just our fruit, and we got 10lt of this beautiful oil.