Harvest Report For 2022

We had a late start to summer and some hot spells leading up to harvest, I constantly remind myself each year that although picking grapes for Cap Classique is based on super fine timing we generally get the best of the grapes when they come in and not too reliant on the seasonal developments later in the harvest time for red wine producers.

This seems to be a Shiraz year with yields all around on the increase, from our block here on the farm we are super satisfied, we spent a lot of attention throughout the year on the vineyards leaning towards using more organic products which has worked well and the vineyard as remained healthy throughout the year. Smaller bunches with good acidity making it easy to handle in the cellar.

The Chardonnay block is now 25 years old so yields are dropping but consistently bringing in clean flavours that work well for Cap Classique.

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