The 2016 growing season started two to three weeks early and progressed perfectly through the ripening process. The lack of rain during flowering this year resulted in a plentiful crop and instead of keeping very warm temperatures through the summer, we had cooling patterns throughout the season that lengthened the harvest out. The longer the growing season yielded high quality grapes with the last blocks arriving at the winery on October 14th which happened to be the first day we saw rain for the season.