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When I visited, the 2007 vintage had recently been harvested, and the wines were already taking shape, having completed their primary fermentation. Rob explained that the difficult 2006 vintage, which was unseasonallyRH202 cool, had a knock-on effect for 2007: if the previous spring is cool there is poor initiation of bunches in the buds (each bud contains next year’s potential flowers and thus grape bunches), HP0-P20 which then affects the following season’s fruit set. Combined with the dry spring and summer in 2007, this meant that there wasn’t a lot of weight in the bunches so yields were down. ‘We’re happy with quality in 2007’, says Rob, 000-102 ‘we just don’t have enough wine.’ As an example, in the 1970 Cabernet block the yield for 2007 was 3 tons/acre as opposed to the normal 5 tons/acre. SSCP As well as the 1970 Cabernet vineyard, Cape Mentelle has three other vineyards, including 50 acres over the road planted in 1988, and sources fruit from a dozen growers.