It is improving and I will taste it with customers before the final blend and thus determine the quality. This will give you friends who spy on my diary a chance to buy it until the end of the month for this reasonable price. A price that I can make money on. Shatter occurs every year in Carignan. In this vineyard and most vineyards it is a normal event of the varietal.
Some years are worse than others.
Yes, last year about this time, I think the temperature got up to 110, which did burn a great deal of fruit. 100 to 105 will usually just harden up the berries for later in the summer. If a farmer did sulfur the morning when the temperature rose to 105 leaves and bunches would be heavily damaged. That is why I did sulfur last Thursday the 17th before the extremes of a few days later. Earlier in talking about tasting, you mentioned that you liked your wines to be strong.