2016 Chenin Blanc – Things As I See Them Didn’t Exist Yesterday
Dry Creek Valley, Sonoma County, United States
This is our second release of Chenin Blanc…the glorious follow up to “Oh My”. Our 2016 hails from the same vineyard source as before, the mighty Saini vineyard. As we know through the ups, downs and generally curvy ways of Prohibition, Dry Creek Valley ended up with some wonderfully old vine Chenin Blanc. The Saini’s roughly 40 year old Chenin Blanc is farmed on sandy loam soils situated on the bottom on of dried up river bed. The vineyard is sustainably grown and mostly entirely dry farmed.
The vintage started early with a precocious bud break. Rains during flowering sawcluster damage, reducing yields in some vineyard, while providing early season water in others. The months through June and July were hot and cooled off end of August and early September. As always these grapes are harvested early to keep the wine taught with ample tension. Fermentation was a mixture of older barrique and stainless steel. The two lots were combined and the returned to tank for bottling. All natural yeasts and as little sulphur as possible.
Things As I See Them Didn’t Exist Yesterday (TAISTDEY…you could have worse acronyms for wine I think..wink!) is a follow up to our 2012
Zinfandel “Things I Thought About Yesterday”. The label describes reflecting in the moment (wine is handy for this) and experiencing how the world changes around us so quickly…in a blink of a day things disappear…and reappear, only to be much different. 2017 has shaped the world into a different stream, complete with new waters and new rocks to navigate. Political turmoil is ripe almost anywhere you look, hurricanes have moved entire islands (and formed others), forest fires and earthquakes will leave the land looking far less recognizable than they were…even just yesterday. The world feels like it’s shedding a skin, leaving behind the past and forming a new skin for tomorrow. You can only look forward in times like these, because if you look back you may not recognize them.
Always on the move
Always spiralling
Never quite here
Never quite where I left it
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