We hand picked Block 1A for our 2024 Estate Pinot Noir on September 13, 2024, at our family’s vineyard in Eagle Point, in Oregon’s Rogue Valley. Block 1A is Pommard, and the 2024 Estate is all Pommard.
Block 1A
The fruit came in at 6 tons. It measured 23.2 Brix (the sugar level in the grapes), with a pH of 3.76 and 5.7 g/L of total acidity. We had picked the same block for Enchanté, our sparkling wine, on August 27, at 18.9 Brix.
Weather
The Medford airport reached 112°F during a long July heat wave. Heat came back from August 29 into early September, with 105°F on September 5, and the rest of September stayed nearly dry. We picked the Estate fruit a week after the airport’s last 100°F day.
The wine
We fermented it in two lots and aged it for 18 months in French oak, primarily neutral barrels (older barrels that add little oak flavor). We bottled it in July 2026.
The 2024 Estate Pinot Noir is our current release, $45 a bottle.
