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Need wine for your holiday meals or looking for the perfect gift? Stop by the tasting room this weekend and we will help you have a Merry time. Cheers!
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Welcoming our 2020 Pinot Blanc, Rogue Valley into our tasting room line up. Bright fruit and floral notes with underlying minerality. Racy, honeyed apples and Asian pear, citrus peel, and a touch of tropical richness.
Silky texture; lingering finish. The grapes were gently whole-cluster pressed, the juice settled for a day, then fermented very cold in neutral French oak barrels to preserve the more delicate floral and mineral flavors and aromas; lees stirred weekly during 2-month-plus fermentation. At harvest: Brix – 20.8; pH – 3.3; TA – 5.2 At bottling: alc. – 13.6; pH – 3.4; TA 5.8. 140 cases made.
Cheers!
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Open House Weekend. We have wine and small bites. Come on out and visit!
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Loading the press with Pinot Noir!
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Enjoying the vineyard views !
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Punch downs!
This is the term winemakers use for breaking up this cap of skins and solids that forms over fermenting red wine. The idea is to submerge the cap to increase skin-to-juice contact.
Cheers!
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Riesling is in the building!
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We are very busy at the winery today. Wild Winds vineyard has been picked and now we are sorting!
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Sauvignon Blanc fruit today!
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We received fruit from @walnutridgevineyard today. Looking forward to some amazing Pinot Noir!
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Sorting the Chardonnay!
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Welcoming two new wines to the tasting room line up.
2020 Gamay Noir Rose
2020 Sauvignon Blanc
We keep production small because the best wines are handmade, through a labor of love, passion, vision. Cheers!
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First fruit of the season! We received Pinot Noir from @lynxhillvineyard today. Harvest 2021 is now underway!
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Happy National Red Wine Day! Come help us celebrate. Cheers 🍷.
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For those who have been waiting and for those who didn’t know that they were, bottling Sauvignon Blanc!
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Harvest is now within sight as the grape berries change color. As the berries mature they become darker and sweeter. It’s an amazing, natural process to witness!
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Looking for something fun to do this weekend? Come on out and enjoy wine, the view, and charcuterie from @grazingfieldscharcuterie . Cheers!
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Welcoming our 2019 Pinot Gris into the tasting room line up. Whole clusters were gently pressed, then aged in stainless steel tanks to preserve the fresh vibrant fruit. Cheers!
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So – this happened. Three gold medals and two silver from the Sommelier’s Choice Awards in San Francisco!
In addition, our 2016 Sass Pinot Noir, Vieux Amis, was named Wine Of The Year for Pinot Noir as the highest-scoring pinot noir in the competition.
We feel both grateful and fortunate to have this recognition of our wines. Thank you, judges!
We don’t send wines out to be judged often, thinking that by the time the wines are judged and the results released, we are often out of the wines that were judged, because we make a lot of tiny batches of interesting wines each year.
If we don’t understand the judging criteria, too, we don’t enter. We have seen judging that rewards wines that stand out simply because they are “different.” Sometimes that means they don’t fit the first rule of any wine, which is varietal typicity. That is, pinot noir should taste like pinot noir rather than something else.
Sommeliers Choice judging standards: Food Pairing Ability; Typicity (must be correct for that varietal grown and made in this place); Quality; Value; and Packaging.
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We have blooms! Here is to a great harvest.
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