Flaherty Wines

Spring has arrived in the Southern Hemisphere. The days are getting longer and the sun brighter, California poppies are blooming along the roadside, and the birds are chattering in the garden again. In the winery, rising temperatures mean the start of malolactic fermentation. During winter, the barrel cellar is too cold for the malolactic bacteria [...]

Is to get through malolactic. And the wines obliged. This is the latest date on record for Flaherty, and I’m sure Ed lost some sleep waiting for them to finish, but all the 2008 lots have finally completed their malolactic fermentations.