Lee and I went out to Williamsons on Sat and then stopped by and saw Dennis. Wanted to pass along a couple notes from our discussions.
Roger indicated we could have up to 2,000lbs of Cab. Syrah is unlikely as Koenig wants all he can get. Roger did say we could go in and pick after the mechanical pickers, though. It is worth a try to see what we can get. Same with the Viognier, we will likely have to "gleen" after the regular picking. Roger only has a little petite syrah and he doesn't know what they are going to do with it. So they may have some for us. Roger did comment that the grapes were coming along nicely.
Dennis indicated that 1,000 lbs of merlot was easy to do, as is 300-500lbs of Chard. We could also likely get some cab, but we told him no as we are getting lots of cab from Roger this year. The malbec is more difficult because the new owners want all the malbec. Dennis may be able to get us a bin of malbec--but doesn't know for sure. And if we get a bin, we likely will get a 1,000lb full bin and not the smaller bins. On the microbins, I think we'll be able to get 1-3 of the "smaller" microbins from Dennis, with the expectation that we keep them (price yet to be determined...).
So here is how the 2008 order is rounding out. If we don't get any Malbec from Dennis,we have enough coming from Prosser to make Boisique and Maganfique. But we won't be able to do a cab/malbec or syrah/malbec blend. Since the 500# of Syrah from Roger is unknown and we didn't get the 500# of Clone-6 from Dennis we have extra capacity for more of Roger's cabernet so we should do 1,000 pounds and could do 1,500 pounds.
Wood River
- 300-500lbs Chard
- 1,000lbs Merlot
- 0 - 1,000lbs Malbec
Williamson
- 500lbs Viognier (gleen picking)
- 1,000-2,000lbs Clone 2 Cabernet
- 500 lbs Syrah (gleen picking--not sure how much we can expect)
- 100 lbs Petite Syrah (gleen picking? -- not sure if we can, and how much we can expect)
RiverRock (WA)
- 400 lbs Clone 6 Cabernet
Prosser
- 250 lbs Malbec
- 700 lbs Sangiovese
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