January 2015 & ENSO

It's time to get to work on marketing!

A very brief update: 2012 and 2013 were failed vintage years. 2014 saw a decent vintage and about 1500 gallons were made.

What was learned in all this failure is vintages depend on the ocean's El Nino Southern Oscillation.  In positive El Nino event years we have a Pinot Noir harvest. In La Nina years we don't. It's about that simple in the big picture.

For more information about ENSO here is an official government site:

 http://www.climate.gov/news-features/department/enso-blog

Here are some charts that show ENSO event years

http://ggweather.com/enso/oni.htm#