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After months of multi-tasking between wine festivals, redesigning our logo and imagining what to create for our new website, we finally unveiled the new design on Monday. We hope that you like our new look and continue to visit our site for updates. One of our newest features is this blog, where we can interact with customers, share news about the winery and discuss all different aspects of the wine world with you. We hope that you join us in this conversation.
As you know from my last writing, as of March 13, 2011, we have gone 100% wind power, which is part of our sustainability goal for our winery. What you might not know is that on April 16, 2011 at about 8pm, we were hit by a F-1 tornado which gave us a lot of natural lighting by removing roofing from the processing room, tank room and the building we store the grape harvester, tractors, and festival equipment and supplies. Believe me, we really didn’t contract for this much wind power. As of this writing, 5 days later, we are…
Not too many years ago, actually just about two to three generations ago, most Americans lost their connection with agriculture. With the dawning of the age of industrialization folks moved from farms to find jobs building cars, running machines, working in cities where the factories were being built. America was on the move. Massive immigration occurred as America was seen as the “land of opportunity”. The world was becoming more mechanized more efficient more industrial based less agricultural based. Things were growing. Though two world wars and other major conflicts, industrialization continued to take over a larger and larger part…
Well here we are a week before Christmas and all though the winery everybody was scurrying especially the winemaker and his assistant Jeff. Actually we have been working our collective tails off getting the 2010 wines ready for their long winter’s nap (ok, maybe it’s more like a long deep sleep) waiting to awaken months to years from now and emerge as a wondrous new vintage. We have shut down the processing room – its crusher and press equipment will be idle until next year’s fruit season. But the tasting! Oh the tasting! What promise this vintage holds! I wait…
It’s election day, and as with all decisions we have to take time to reflect and think about the future. What will be that next shinning star? What will the future bring that we couldn’t have imagined just last year? Well these questions are the norm every season for a 21st century winemaker. Last year brought rain, rain and more rain. This year the grape gods looked more favorably on us and gave us a remarkable growing season. Yes, even though your lawns were brown, this is the type of weather we dream about but very rarely get here in…
