Vidal Blanc
Sweetened only with its own juice
Picked late from the cleanest clusters. We hold back some sterile-filtered juice and add it back at bottling, so the sweetness is just the grape.
The season in this bottle
Heat to harvest
2,721 GDD
+3% vs 30-yr average · so far
Rain, 20 days to harvest
3.1 in
normal ≈ 2.1 in
Winter low
-18°F
colder than 93% of winters
Hot days (90°F+)
9
last spring frost May 2
Markers show where 2026 falls among the last 30 seasons at this vineyard. weather records
The site
SoilRichter · coarse-loamy
DrainageSomewhat poorly drained
Elevation646 ft
Soil from the USDA soil survey soil data
cuvaio