Things have been moving along rather briskly here for being the 'off' season!
We finished racking the last of our '06 BDX reds today, the 06 Cab Sauv Gist is back in barrel and looking great. Its a pretty suave wine for that vineyard, which usually produces ferociously tannic juice. One of the hallmarks of the '06 vintage is the seamless nature of the wines, they will drink awfully well in their youth.
I am off to a Biodynamic class at Joseph Phelps Vineyards tomorrow. Philippe Armenier and his wife are teaching it and it should be very interesting.
On Friday I am off to one of my favorite places in California, the Anderson Valley in northern Mendocino County. In my mental dictionary there is a large panoramic of the Anderson Valley under the word bucolic. The 3rd annual International Alsace Varietals Festival is being held on Saturday and we are there to pour our '06 Gewürztraminer and '03 Late Harvest Gewürztraminer. I attended last year and had a great time, there are a lot of interesting wines and the atmosphere is refreshingly laid back.
We are gearing up for a big month of bottling in March- 3 different runs no less! It should be pretty exciting as we bottle the first wines from '07 and our '06 Chardonnays. Bottling is always stressful, but once the wine is in bottle it is a large weight of my shoulder, no more SO2's, VA's, etc. All we have to do is sell it!
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Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
From afar
Greetings from the luxurious A terminal at Dallas Fort Worth Airport! I am on my way to Alabama to work with our distributor there, The Wine Source. Unfortunately there aren't any, to my knowledge, direct flights to Alabama from SF. The layover did allow me to catch up on the blog here, and have the privilege to pay T Mobile $10 to use their WiFi for the day (yeah!).
We are the featured winery at an event to benefit the Huntsville Museum of Art.
In other exciting news Michael and I meet with noted Biodynamic consultant Philippe Armenier about possibly trialling this exciting and controversial farming technique on a few blocks!
Gotta board my plane!
We are the featured winery at an event to benefit the Huntsville Museum of Art.
In other exciting news Michael and I meet with noted Biodynamic consultant Philippe Armenier about possibly trialling this exciting and controversial farming technique on a few blocks!
Gotta board my plane!
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