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.
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Friday, October 8, 2010
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
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).
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).
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