2022 can be summed up as 'wet then dry'. Maybe that's a touch simplistic but less is more as they say. Good canopies early in the season and then a relatively stress-free growing season meant bunches were a little fuller than 2021 and so yields came in at about our average which means a few more bottles this year than last.

While it was dry at the end of summer and temperatures were fairly normal, it wasn't particularly sunny and as the fruit came in we had an inkling that it was a good Huldufólk Chardonnay year but we'd have to see whether we could find a Huldufólk Pinot. As it turned out, there were no single/double barrel Pinot combinations that were as complete as previous iterations and so we decided to see what a blend of all the Dijon clones (115, 114, 777) together would look like. As both fruit and wine they are often quite different to the 'older' clones and tend to be lower yielding and 'purer'. It's easy to reach for the term 'Burgundian' in this context and while it's a broad brush it gets you to the destination quicker than a bunch of flavour/texture descriptors. Perhaps. Either way, we loved the wine so we decided to bottle it!