Spring Bottling
With spring in the air we are looking to bottle new vintages of our wine before the onset of the summer heat. Pedra Basta 2010 is coming to an end and will be replaced by the 2011, a warmer, altogether riper year which has produced a soft, structured red. I am almost sorry to see the back of the 2010 which, although a weaker vintage, produced a lovely fruit-driven wine. Talking to a fellow producer at the Douro tasting in London this week, he agreed with me that 2010 was not the basket case that we thought at the time and that it produced some good fresh flavoured wines.