EIEIO & COMPANY
YATES CONWILL VINEYARD
I have been leasing Yates Conwill Vineyard since the mid-2000s with great results in both the Chardonnay and Pinot noir. The vineyard has been described as a bonsai garden it is so well tended.
The vineyard adjacent to Yates Conwill was recently purchased by Maison Louis Jadot. It is known as the Resonance Vineyard. The House of Jadot can afford to buy land anywhere. Obviously, this site is something special to Jacques Lardiere and crew. Being adjacent, the soil, exposure and the even some of the actual plants are the same. Perhaps this is why the people at Resonance like my Yates Conwill Vineyard wines.
Grape plants are vines and vines are tenacious. Most all vinifera is now grafted onto “rootstock” chosen for its ability to resist phylloxera as well as specific water intake characteristics. This makes for an economically safer vineyard. The plants within this Own Roots bottling are cuttings taken from the neighboring vineyard currently known as Resonance Vineyard. You cut off the fruiting cane in the winter and stick it in the ground in the early spring. Most all cuttings will take hold and these obviously did.
Grape plants are vines and vines are tenacious. Most all vinifera is now grafted onto “rootstock” chosen for its ability to resist phylloxera as well as specific water intake characteristics. This makes for an economically safer vineyard. The plants within this Own Roots bottling are cuttings taken from the neighboring vineyard currently known as Resonance Vineyard. You cut off the fruiting cane in the winter and stick it in the ground in the early spring. Most all cuttings will take hold and these obviously did.
Anecdotally, I find that vines growing on their own roots not only ripen later but also do not seem to take on more water when it is not needed. I have yet to see these berries split during large downpours such as we had in 2013. Perhaps that is why my wines from Yates Conwill Vineyard did so well with the critics that year.
EIEIO & COMPANY
YATES CONWILL VINEYARD
I have been leasing Yates Conwill Vineyard since the mid-2000s with great results in both the Chardonnay and Pinot noir. The vineyard has been described as a bonsai garden it is so well tended.
The vineyard adjacent to Yates Conwill was recently purchased by Maison Louis Jadot. It is known as the Resonance Vineyard. The House of Jadot can afford to buy land anywhere. Obviously, this site is something special to Jacques Lardiere and crew. Being adjacent, the soil, exposure and the even some of the actual plants are the same. Perhaps this is why the people at Resonance like my Yates Conwill Vineyard wines.
Grape plants are vines and vines are tenacious. Most all vinifera is now grafted onto “rootstock” chosen for its ability to resist phylloxera as well as specific water intake characteristics. This makes for an economically safer vineyard. The plants within this Own Roots bottling are cuttings taken from the neighboring vineyard currently known as Resonance Vineyard. You cut off the fruiting cane in the winter and stick it in the ground in the early spring. Most all cuttings will take hold and these obviously did.
Grape plants are vines and vines are tenacious. Most all vinifera is now grafted onto “rootstock” chosen for its ability to resist phylloxera as well as specific water intake characteristics. This makes for an economically safer vineyard. The plants within this Own Roots bottling are cuttings taken from the neighboring vineyard currently known as Resonance Vineyard. You cut off the fruiting cane in the winter and stick it in the ground in the early spring. Most all cuttings will take hold and these obviously did.
Anecdotally, I find that vines growing on their own roots not only ripen later but also do not seem to take on more water when it is not needed. I have yet to see these berries split during large downpours such as we had in 2013. Perhaps that is why my wines from Yates Conwill Vineyard did so well with the critics that year.
