Winemaker says only 20% of expected fruit has been harvested.
Testarossa Winery proprietors Rob Jensen, center, and Diana Jensen, second from left, chat with members of the Novitiate in Los Gatos as Father Peter Pabst, right, prepares for the annual Blessing of the Grapes on Oct. 11. Pabst eventually anointed the bin of Fogstone pinot noir grapes in the foreground with holy water.
Testarossa proprietor Rob Jensen was quick to point out that this was the 136th harvest these old stone walls had witnessed. This year was particularly special, he said, because it happened to be his wife Diana’s birthday, and her mother, along with their daughter, were in attendance. Then Jensen consulted his watch, looked around the crowd, and declared, “If we gather here at 6 o’clock, the tradition is to have 6 ounces of wine, but if we gather at noon, then we have 12.
Jensen pointed to the bin of freshly blessed Fogstone pinot noir clone 777 that would ultimately go into the crusher and invited people to sample. The small clusters and relatively small berries were quite ripe, with very brown and crunchy seeds—just what winemaker Bill Brosseau was looking for. The Fogstone Vineyard is owned by Santa Clara University alums Carol and Bret Sisney and Gary Filizetti, who are longtime friends of the Jensens and own Devcon construction.was held on Sept. 29 over a bin of ripe Fogstone chardonnay on a very warm summerlike day, when most of the grapes for the season had already come in. This year, Brosseau said they have brought in only about 20% of their expected fruit, making it one of the latest harvests in a dozen years.
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