For my dear Blog Followers, my apologies for my absence. As soon as we racked the wine and started the secondary fermentation, we left town for our postponed and much needed vacation/business road trip. Over 3,500 miles of fun, and wine! We travelled in and out of...
Before we pressed the 2010 vintages, we decided we should bottle the 2009 Petite Syrah. We had been collecting bottles, had soaked the labels off them, and washed them thoroughly. We had bought a transfer pump to move the wine from the carboys to the...
The wine making operation is taking over. Since we don’t have a winery building yet, or even a garage in which to make wine, we are making it in the dining room. The livingroom area has been shrunk by moving easy chairs and wine racks, and there...
Yesterday was the last day of our harvest and it sure has been an interesting year in the vineyard. We brought in 7,500 pounds of grapes (about 50/50 Petite Syrah and Zinfandel), up from 2,800 pounds last year. Next year there will likely be...
At a recent local wine competition awards dinner, I spoke to one of the judges who is a well qualified gentleman from New York, who was a judge for the famous Finger Lakes International Wine Competition. This year was his first year judging...
Yesterday we had 27 wonderful buyers and volunteers here to harvest 3,300 pounds of Petite Syrah grapes. It was VERY hot. 90 at 9 a.m. There are another 600 pounds out there that the buyers will come to pick next Saturday. We were done by noon...
