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Michel Gracia harvested on the late side in 2005, finishing on October 7. Still, he told me, he has been picking with less surmaturite since 2001. "Two thousand five was an easy harvest, with no rot," he said, adding that the crop level was just 32 hectoliters per hectare. Still, Gracia carried out his normal 20% saignee to further concentrate the must. He did "more maceration than extraction" in 2005, including an extended pre-fermentation cold soak. Gracia noted that the cold soak of the merlot grapes actually lasted up to ten days because he prefers to vinify the merlot with the later-harvested cabernet, as he believes that the "molecules knit better this way."
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Michel Gracia harvested between October 4 and 18, using his sorting table to eliminate grapes that were still pink or had withered skins. He told me he began with 36 hectoliters per hectare but after bleeding off 30% of the juice actually produced just 26. Nowadays, Gracia works quite reductively. As recently as 2001, he racked his wine six times, but the 2003 has only been racked three times, and the general rule now is two rackings in the first year and one in the second.
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