Grape Expectations For The 2007 Vintage

Filed in archive Vineyards on August 11, 2007

Oh, 2007! Everything I read lately is telling me that the quality of grapes from this year's harvest might produce, dare I say, one of the best vintages ever? Rumor has it, 2007 might even surpass 2003. Goodness knows there is at least as much buzz!

From The Independant:

And, don't shout it out loud because no year is a good one till the wine is in the cellar, but 2007 is looking to be better even than 2003. Fiercely hot, true, for months now, but without that pitilessly dry, hot spring that we had four years ago. With the mildest of winters, a winter that hardly happened, morphing into a warm, wet spring finished off by a classic Mediterranean high summer of blazing azure skies and hot, hot sun. All across southern Europe the grapes have plumped and coloured at record speed. The tasks that pile up during the summer months have to be dispatched at record speed now.