Thank you Mike Dunne and the Sacramento Bee for a great write up on our Petite Sirah! It’s quickly become a tasting room favorite!
Dunne on Wine: Young vines produce well at Harney Lane
By Mike Dunne
“Oddly, no vintner to my knowledge has put “Young Vines” on the label of a bottle of wine. You see “Old Vines” all the time, even though no fixed definition of the term exists and even though the scientific evidence to support the suggestion that older vines yield superior wines is shaky.
Vintners likely avoid boasting of young vines because the vines are untested and because they lack the thick and weathered builds that speak to maturity, experience, survival and photo ops, all valued characteristics in the marketing of wine. And at some unspecified point, young vines no longer could be marketed as young, unless some viticulturist comes up with a way to provide them with the vineyard equivalent of a face-lift.
At any rate, younger vines have shown that they are quite capable of producing remarkably notable wines.”
