The past few days we've been finishing the tank blends on the next set of four Rieslings - the 2011 Dry Riesling, 2011 Hobbit Hollow Vineyard Riesling, 2011 Patrician Verona Vineyard Riesling, and 2011 Nutt Road Vineyard Riesling. The Dry Riesling has a snappy, crisp...
The vineyard has some additional excitement this week - the first clusters of 2012 began to emerge. While these clusters are smaller than your pinky fingernail, we're thrilled to see this development knowing how much effort has gone into the vineyard thus far. We still...
Because of the inclement weather, we decided to focus our attention on indoor activities. The early Spring has led us out of the cellar and into the vineyard, prolonging some of our normal seasonal cellar tasks. One of those tasks is wrapping up the blends...
Today we bottled the 2011 Brut Rosé. I have to say, normally I'm not as excited as Susan is about the bubbles, but I think this one is going to be a sensational drink. The strawberry jam aromas around the bottling line had a very...
After a relatively mild winter and abnormally early spring weather, we are experiencing an earlier than normal swelling of the buds. The vines were planted in Spring of 2010, and this is the first year that we might harvest a few grapes from our estate...