Harvest Approaches: The 2025 Season in Perfect Balance
In the vineyard, every year begins as a question. By September, the answer begins to take shape. For Weather Wines, the 2025 growing season has been a study in patience and precision—each shift in the weather leaving its quiet mark on the fruit as it slowly ripened in it’s Sonoma Coast vineyards.
At the turn of the year, winter arrived with generous rainfall, replenishing the soils and setting the stage for a healthy start. Spring moved slowly, cool and deliberate along the Sonoma coastline, with budbreak arriving a touch later than average. Early summer brought gentle warmth and clear skies, allowing the canopy to develop fully while clusters formed with even, consistent weight.
August carried the weather’s rhythm forward—warm afternoons shaped by Pacific breezes, nights holding onto the essential chill that characterizes the Sonoma Coast terroir.. The pace has been measured—no sudden heat waves, no urgent rush—giving the fruit time to mature with depth, color, and aromatic complexity.
Now, in September, the first blocks of Chardonnay destined to be Weather’s 2025 vintage signal a turning point. The air is shifting—still summer in the sun, but with the first whisper of autumn in the mornings. Pinot Noir will follow when it is ready–fully expressing its coastal micro-climate. For Weather Wines, harvest is never a matter of rushing to pick, but of listening to the season until the fruit and weather align.
This philosophy—waiting for that perfect meeting point—has shaped every vintage, from the award-winning 2021 Weather Leras Vineyard Russian River Valley Pinot Noir earning a Gold medal and 94 points from Sunset Magazine to the earliest wines of this harvest. It is the reason our rows are walked daily in these final weeks, watching for that exact moment when balance is at its peak.
In the coming days, the vineyard will come alive with the work of harvest: the cut of shears in the early light, bins filled before the day’s heat, fermentations releasing the first aromas of the season. And when the weather holds, as it has this year, each cluster carries the promise of wines that will speak clearly of place, season, and the craft behind them.
As the fruit of 2025 comes in, Weather Wines remains guided by the same commitment that has defined us from the start: to craft wines born of the weather, shaped by the stunning Sonoma Coast terroir, and worthy of the moment when they are shared.
Explore our current releases—crafted from seasons past, each a reflection of the weather, the vineyard, and the moment they were made. Shop Weather Wines.
