by NovaCadamatre | Sep 14, 2019 | Vintage Notes
Clearly it’s been a while since I have posted. With so much going on this year it has been hard to find time to write but my harvest updates are always appreciated so I wanted to make a priority to get those up this year. Napa We started with a super wet spring...
by NovaCadamatre | Oct 7, 2018 | Finger Lakes Life, Vintage Notes, Viticulture, Winemaking
This has been an insane year. I haven’t had much time to post at all which I’m incredibly disappointed by. However, the 2018 harvest is shaping up to be a very interesting one. Over the summer, my family and I relocated back to Napa, California but we...
by NovaCadamatre | Oct 31, 2017 | Vintage Notes
It feels in some ways that this has been a super long harvest and in others it fells so short. We had the rain on and off for the week in early October but since then the weather has been beautiful. Riesling has been very strange this year. There was a large crop and...
by NovaCadamatre | Aug 24, 2017 | Finger Lakes Life, Vintage Notes, Viticulture, Winemaking
Finally, it has dried out. I can walk in the vineyards and my back yard without worrying about sinking into a puddle. Since my last update we have still had several more storms however it has not been everyday and we have at last seen a return to sun which gave us a...
by NovaCadamatre | Jul 26, 2017 | Finger Lakes Life, Vintage Notes
Seriously, we are good. Last year was a drought year for the Finger Lakes but this year has been one of the wettest on record. Upstate NY had the wettest March and April ever on record according to National Weather data. Just in the past 30 days over 10 inches have...
by NovaCadamatre | Sep 30, 2016 | Vintage Notes
I’m trying to tell my inner CA winemaker to shut up. It’s raining and it’s going to be raining for 5 days. Then we have 3 days of warm and sun and then more rain. Do I pick everything in the window or do I hold out that we might get an Indian Summer...
