Harvest season at DeLille began on August 27th, welcoming the first pick of the year into the winery: Sauvignon Blanc from Block 6 on Sagemoor’s Bacchus Vineyard. The 2025 growing season has been quite ideal from our winemaker Nick Bernstein’s point of view: “This year has been consistently warm, with few heat spikes,” said Nick, “with the late August warmth leading to an early and quick-paced start to harvest.” The team has been working quickly and carefully, processing lots and preparing each one for fermentation almost daily since the start of the season.
The fruit seems to be reveling in this warm, dry weather, ripening at a quicker, but ideal pace. “The quality of the fruit seems to be high, and we are very excited to see more vineyard blocks continue to come through over the coming weeks,” said Nick. The team is thrilled with the weather conditions thus far, and they appear to be near perfect for the foreseeable future. If the forecast is accurate, harvest could be done quite early, giving our crew more time in the cellar with the 2025 fruit.
This year, we are thrilled to welcome four interns who will help support our winemaking team during the fast-paced harvest season. The crew started at the beginning of August and played an essential role in preparing the winery to bring in hundreds of tons of fruit.
