It is very much like adding a note here, a note there, to create a song. At DuBoeuf, the wines of our house have a style. Each year, like a fashion designer, we trim and tuck and cut and sew a slightly different garment, but one that still carries the mark of a DuBoeuf. I have learned many things while creating my house style. I have found that I must bottle my wines before they are at their peak.
Wine is a living thing.
It is not good to take a wine that is perfectly and harmoniously blended and imprison it in a bottle. Something is lost along the way. Rather, take that same wine, before it has achieved its ultimate balance and place it in the bottle so that wine and bottle can together create something special. In this way, something wonderful is captured. At the House of DuBoeuf, we bottle always after the full moon and before the new moon.