Les Fleurs du Cameron
From John, June 20th, 2012
Clos Electrique Pinot noir flowers
For the last two years, spring in the Willamette Valley has been cool and wet, meaning that flowering has occurred extremely late. This, in turn, has led to very late, stressful harvests. So it is with absolute joy that we can announce the advent of flowering here in mid June 2012! The first flowers appeared on June 17th and we expect the process to take at least a week – with alternating warm and cool periods accelerating and slowing the process respectively. Extended periods of flowering such as this can give rise to exceptional vintages (all other factors considered) since it leads to a range of ripeness and therefore greater complexity in the resulting wines. Therefore we suggest that you keep your eyes peeled on Oregon 2012!
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The 2025 Vintage
Fermentations are now mostly complete and the cellar is angling down to its winter
temperature, so now is the time to button up my cardigan and reflect on the vintage just completed.
The Broken Immigration System
Now that the harvest season is largely over in Oregon, ICE has started to raid the farming communities in the Willamette Valley, arresting literally tens to hundreds at a time. Without immigrant workers helping us, we have no chance of bringing in a harvest next year. So the question becomes “what can we do?”
There’s More... >Harvesting in the Midst of ICE Storms
In the midst of the ICE storm in Portland, we are fermenting our fruit from an exceptional vintage, hoping that what we will best remember from 2025
will not be the carnage wreaked upon our immigrant workers but rather 2025 as a truly magnificent vintage!