Opus One
Following the wet spring of 2010, Opus One left more leaves on the shoots in order to keep the roots more active and draw more moisture out of the soil, said winemaker Michael Silacci. "And we did not strip leaves in mid-August, just before the heat spell." The team here started harvesting way in advance of original predictions, and Silacci says he was shocked to find so much ripeness. But thanks to the use of an optical grape sorter and a decision to pick a substantial chunk of the crop on the weekend before another heat spike, Silacci noted, "we don't see a dehydrated character at all in 2010." Silacci described 2011 as a difficult year. Again, Opus picked early ("at the fresh fruit stage"), beginning on September 19 and picking nearly half the crop before the first big rain fell in early October. Over the years, Silacci has cut back significantly on maceration times. There were 44 days of skin contact in 2000, while in 2010 it was 19 and in 2011,18.
From Annual Coverage of California's North Coast (May 2013) by Stephen Tanzer
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