cameronwinery

Fermentations are now mostly complete and the cellar is angling down to its winter temperature in the high 50s F. So now is the time to button up my cardigan and reflect on the vintage just completed. When an early bloom in June came quickly to a close because of a premature heat spike, we knew that ripening in the fall would also come quickly and furiously. In the meantime, mid summer was mostly a delightful blast from the past, with moderate temperatures (mostly in the low 80s), which...

The Napa Valley in 1979 had an air of confidence that transcended everything else. The Steven Spurrier Paris tasting had occurred just 3 years prior and suddenly the wines of California, and especially the Napa Valley, were on the world wine map. It was a place of innovation where anything seemed possible and seemingly every grape varietal in existence could grow there. The seeds of this success had been planted a hundred years before when Count Ágoston Haraszthy returned from Europe with a...