Vintage so far...
This has been quite a week. Not since 2002 have we had so much rain during vintage. Our saving grace is that we picked the Trincadeira early – if not it would have been thoroughly infected by bunch rot by now. We have sold off most of this year’s Trincadeira to another producer. I really feel for growers in the Douro who will be picking slightly later than us, especially those with old, interplanted vineyards where there is a percentage of Tinta Amarela (i.e. Trincadeira).