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2019 COMMAND SHIRAZ - A TEST OF FORTITUDE The first of March brought us the
we have seen wet and dry seasons, cool
expect, and certainly what we were
newest release of our Command Shiraz
and hot years, big winds and hail. But
hoping for. Luckily the old vines kicked in
- from vintage 2019.
This is the 33rd
until 2019 we had never experienced
and gave us fruit that was truly worthy of
Command since the inaugural vintage
catastrophic frost. Sure, we had been
having the Command label applied to it.
way back in 1984.
minimally touched up in past seasons,
The Command Shiraz block proudly sits in front of our original family homestead and now cherished Cellar Door. Over the four decades that we have farmed this block of 1894-planted Shiraz,
but never like late 2018. The Command vineyard was hit worse than any other block, on any of our vineyards. As such, yields were around 80% lower than what we would normally
We now have a mini frost fan that should mitigate some of the effects of future frosts. continued over...