Ampelos Pinot Noir

Harvest grapes were picked from the renowned john sebastiano vineyard which is right across the street from our vineyard in sta. Rita hills – great stuff to work with! We also used about 40% estate fruit for each of the three blocks at jsv and our estate sections we have we kept checking the fruit to ensure the optimal harvest time grapes from jsv were picked between august 18 and 31 and from our estate vineyard between august 31 and september 4 – the earliest harvest we have had as a result of a warm and dry spring and summer rebecca and i carefully inspected the clusters during the picking to eliminate anything but the best fruit – early morning work starting at 2 am winemaking style all steps in the wine making process were following natural and eco-friendly winemaking principles cooling the grapes: after picking the fruit stayed 24 hours in our cold room to avoid the use of dry ice cold soaked for 3-5 days after which the natural wild fermentation kicked in. We did not