Bottling 2016 KanKar

We bottled the 2016 KanKar this week.  Don't get too excited.  We won't be releasing it until September, 2019 - or another 10 months from now.  Patience!  

The 2016 KanKar will take about 36 months from harvest to release - 3 years.  While we would all love to open that beautiful wine today, the simple fact remains:  fine wine takes time.

For example:  We invested over 5 years to release the first Estate wines earlier this year.  Much of that time was converting the land from a coastal field to a vineyard and then farming the land and tending the vines, nurturing them to health and harvest.  Fortunately, the first wines are whites and rose, since those "only" take about a year to produce post-harvest!  It is one reason we love our tasting experiences so much:  we all get to slow down and savor the literal fruits of our labors.

Modern conveniences and machines now exist to speed up the winemaking process; however, the consequences of rushing and pushing are, in our opinion, to the detriment of the quality and character of the wine.  For us and our winemaking philosophy, only hand tended wines with ample time provides the optimal path towards excellence!  After all, once the wine is in the glass and you experience the exceptional quality, can we reflect and realize the time and effort are worth it.

So, as we look to the end of the year and the promise of the new, let's slow down and savor with our community and family.  Open the older wine and enjoy the graceful aging which time brings.  Enjoy wine with friends, family and food.  And we can wait awhile longer with anticipation as the younger wines continue their path of maturation.