Getting Ready for the Holidays

I'll be checking the oak levels today on our 2009 Knight's Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. We've got about eight barrels and should be a beauty ready for bottling in Spring 2012.

Wishing everyone the best for the holidays.

BTW- We're running a special on our 2009 Chardonnay for only $36 a case this month. Don't let the price throw you off, I'm just got too much Chardonnay on hand and we're trying to lighten the load some.

Thanks,
Kris Moe

New Chardonnay coming soon

We've just found a really nice Chardonnay that we hope to put in the bottle in the next couple weeks. It's a 2009 mostly from Suisan, California just east of Napa Valley.

We're sending a good amount of Cabernet Sauvignon inventory to South Korea so we'll be loading up a new Cabernet in the next month too.

We'll be bottling a nice Sonoma Valley Cabernet from 2008 but this is pre-sold but right behind it is a really nice Knight's Valley Cabernet that I hope to bottle in April or so. This are our Limited wines that retail at about $30.

North Carolina is in line to be our next state for distribution. Can't wait for an excuse to visit the Carolinas and play some golf.

I'm running a sweepstakes for two tickets to the ATT Pebble Beach pro-am and $100 gift certificate February 13, to enter visit our Facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/pages/19th-Hole-Wine-Club/54624331825?ref=ts

West Coast Swing Golf Wine Events

Happy New Year and welcome back to golf season.

I'm setting up my schedule of events this year and it starts at the ATT at Pebble Beach. My favorite player on tour Michael Allen is playing so I'll be there rooting him on.

Michael is a good friend and he tells me he's playing great so I'm expecting some big finishes from him early in the year before his 51 year old body tires.

I'm still hammering out the other events but it looks like we'll be in Texas, Ohio, Florida and Southern California too. I'll keep you posted as these firm up.

Harvest Time in the Wine Country

It's a great time to be in the wine country. All the wineries are doing what they do best, making wine.

If you love wine and haven't experienced seeing wine being made, it really is worth a visit. It all begins with the pick early in the morning and then they transported to the winery to be processed for fermentation. At our winery we may have ten different types of grapes coming through at various times this month.

19th Hole Wine will be doing a Chardonnay this year from Alexander Valley. We'll be aging it in oak to give it that buttery touch that most of us enjoy. I expect we'll be bottling this wine next Summer in July or so. We expect it'll be a bargain at $20 a bottle. The previous vintages from this vineyard are award winning Chardonnays at $30 plus a bottle.

I'm really excited about a new merlot blend we're bottling this month. It is blended with 15% Cabernet Franc and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon all from Sonoma County. We'll price this wine at $15 a bottle.

In the same bottling run we'll also put into bottle our Sonoma Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. This is 100% Cabernet Sauvignon from 2008 and we expect to sell this at $30 a bottle.

Give us a call if you'd like to watch us make the wine or if you'd like to come up to taste. Our phone number is 707-529-6458.

Wine and cheese tasting December 16th in San Francisco

FYI- I'm actually doing a couple golf lessons in my San Francisco indoor studio on 456 Montgomery St. today. At about four I'm welcoming you to come in and check out my wine and enjoy a couple cheeses. Call if you're coming, 707-529-6458.

Next week- I'm putting into bottle a couple barrels of my 2007 Dry Creek Valley Merlot next week. It's really pretty cool how wines can be so different from barrel to barrel. It just so happened that these two barrels stood out from the rest. It's a big Merlot ready for the bottle and to be enjoyed.

We're making the 19th Hole wines up in Sebastopol, California (Russian River AVA) about a half mile from Merry Edwards and a mile from Iron Horse. It's a low key winery that has a good feel to it. Here's the location. Give me a call sometime and I can meet you up there and you taste some of my wines.

This next week we're going to press down some Cabernet Sauvignon I picked in Knight's Valley (just north of renowned Chateau Montelena in Calistoga), and if grapes make better wine from being grown in beautiful places, this wine will be a 100.

This will be our first year with this fruit and I'm going to try this fruit for a few years to learn how to produce it. So this year we will experiment by doing various different things with it to see how it develops (ie new oak vs. partial oak).

New video shot from the vineyard in September

Hi everyone,

We shot a new video in the vineyard last week, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ8U0yFXs9c

It looks like we'll be making a high end Cabernet Sauvignon toward the end of October. Come on out and help us make wine!

19th Hole Golf Wine Club at the PGA Championship

I'll be flying the flag at the PGA Championship in Minnesota for anyone that wants to join me. My friend Michael Allen will be carrying at new device on his golf bag during the tournament that will streaming a digital slide show with our advertising.

I arrive late Thursday night. After watching golf on Friday we'll be meeting at O' Connors Public House just a few miles down the road from Hazeltine Golf Club. The owner there happens to be a Facebook fan of 19th Hole Wine and he was kind enough to send an warm welcome.

On Saturday after the round we'll be heading back to Minneapolis to meet up at the Wine Thief wine shop at 6:00 pm to try some wines. I found these guys on the web and I loved their site so I had to duck into see them and try some wines.

You may always text of phone me (Kris Moe) to track me down in Minnesota, 707-529-6458.

Newest 19th Hole Video Update

Harvest time in Sonoma

After quite a heat spell the weather has turned to foggy mornings and perfectly comfortable 80 degree afternoons. I'd say 30% of the grapes have been picked. I've got Chardonnay cooking down in fermentation and ready to press this weekend. The first of the month we'll be picking Cabernet and Merlot. I shot of my wine maker, Robert Rex owner of Deerfield Ranch Winery in Kenwood, walking the vineyard and describing what he's looking for in the ready-to-pick grape.



On the golf side Sonoma Golf Club is in great shape for the Schwab Cup next month. I'm going to put an event up for October 4 where we play some in the am and check out some of the wine production taking place at Deerfield. Until then!

July 19th Nine and Wine a Blast!

After playing a deviously challenging executive nine in Sebastopol (most of the holes were par threes but they 200 yards plus and they had tiny greens). We scooted over to the winery for some refreshing tastes of a 2005 Sauvignon Blanc. On hand was a friend of my father, Danny Chung, who happens to be a Master Sommelier (fewer than 200 in the US). So discussions of wine was at a higher level than normal.

After lunch at the winery long table, we enjoyed tasting some futures wine in the cellar room. We tried Malbecs, Merlots, Cabs and even Ports. At the end we filled a few bottles and our guests not only corked the bottles but labeled them too. Just another golf and wine event with the 19th Hole Wine Club. Come out for the next one!