After spending long hours in the spring randomly selecting vines and counting grape clusters, it appeared that we had a normal crop on most of our vines in 2021. Unfortunately, we had failed to calculate the number of berries in an average cluster since everything looked pretty normal. When the vines were harvested and the grapes arrived at the winery, we were shocked. We had a light crop in 2020 where we harvested about 20% less than our five-year average, but this 2021 harvest was another 20% reduction from the 2020 crop. Ouch! Our Savvy usually contains wine from the fruit across the street at Foursight Vineyards, but they had a meager harvest as well. We were scrambling and phoned every grower we knew in the Anderson Valley, Yorkville Highlands and Mendocino Ridge appellations. At the last minute we got a phone call from the Old Chatham Ranch on Highway 128 outside Yorkville; they had a small block of Sauvignon Blanc and would sell us the fruit.

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