{"id":157,"date":"2006-10-22T08:56:29","date_gmt":"2006-10-22T15:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danthewineguy.com\/?p=157"},"modified":"2007-12-03T13:29:29","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T20:29:29","slug":"2006-harvest-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"2006 Harvest Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2006 growing season turned out to be a bit of an odd duck.  The weather in Eastern Washington fell into a stop\/start-mode during the early part of the season before the temperatures really cranked up during the late summer months.<\/p>\n<p>The result is that winemakers were scrambling a bit in early September as everything was beginning to ripen at the same time and a mass-harvest, of sorts, was starting to take shape.  Fortunately, Mother Nature intervened with a cool period in mid-September.  This slowed things down, gave the grapes a bit more hang time, and allowed the flavors to catch up with the fairly high sugar levels that were being measured.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pepperbridge.com\/storage\/thumbnails\/218884-252792-thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/> As the crush continues, I&#8217;m hearing more and more good news about the 2006 harvest.  Jean-Francois Pellet (pictured at left) of Pepper Bridge Winery in Walla Walla says, &#8220;&#8230;all indicators point to a great harvest.&#8221; I also chatted with John Powers of Chuckanut Ridge, who purchased some of his fruit from Elephant Mountain Vineyard in Yakima Valley.  He said that that this year&#8217;s Merlot was one of the most aromatic varietals he&#8217;d encountered and the Syrah was as dark and inky as you&#8217;ll ever see.<\/p>\n<p>With reviews like that, 2006 may turn out to be more of a beautiful swan instead of an ugly duckling. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2006 growing season turned out to be a bit of an odd duck. The weather in Eastern Washington fell into a stop\/start-mode during the early part of the season before the temperatures really cranked up during the late summer months. The result is that winemakers were scrambling a bit in early September as everything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heard-through-the-grapevine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danthewineguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}