Dirty Talk on WineYour Futures...(A Baker's Dozen)Posted 04/10/2008 at 01:42 AM by DirkWe tend to believe that we can have but one Future and it is mercifully unknown. Maybe I have read too much fiction, but we can prove that you can enjoy multiple Futures – at least 13 to be precise. No, you don't have to be schizophrenic to enjoy all of them but you do have to make arrangements between now (April) and then (August 31st). You even get to choose your own "Futures"! Each spring we offer "Futures" where these single-vineyard Cabernets can be reserved for early delivery two years later. It sounds like a long wait but is well worth it...if you are the semi-patient type. We will have a barrel tasting on April 26th that will have all 13 wines! (I recommend that you become familiar with how to use a spittoon.) That is a lot of young wines. I like "Futures". It is going to be fun to taste the 2007 Nickel & Nickel cabernets with aficionados who rarely get to experience the youth, power, and flavors of wines which have been in the barrel a few months. They give a great glimpse of what the wine will become once it has completed its time in barrels. We made quite a few single vineyard cabs in 2007 if a baker's dozen qualifies as quite a few. I am smart enough to avoid predicting which vineyards will be your favorite but some of the more limited vineyards such as Dragonfly and Regusci Block 4 will likely have all of their "Futures" reserved. I will try to give more details about these wines later in this week. If you want a more European view of "Futures" you might see how Sherry-Lehman http://www.sherry-lehmann.com/bordeaux-futures.asp offers Futures from a whole variety of Bordeaux Chateaux.
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Dirk Hampson
Few winemakers realize the opportunity to build a winemaking program from the ground up, living and growing with the vineyards over two decades. Dirk
Hampson, director of winemaking and chairman at Far Niente, and sister wineries Dolce and Nickel & Nickel, counts himself among the fortunate. An
enology graduate from the University of California, Davis, Hampson honed his craft at some of Europe's greatest properties, and was the first American to apprentice at Bordeaux First Growth Chateau Mouton Rothschild. Hampson returned to the US and was appointed winemaker at Far Niente in 1983.
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