Thanksgiving Weekend Tasting Hours

We'll be pouring on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday this weekend in our tasting room in downtown McMinnville (581 NE 3rd Street). We open at twelve and our tasting fee is $5. That covers the 2008 Estate White and all three 2008 Pinot Noirs (Estate, 144, Uh-Huh). We'll also be pouring at the winery (At ADEA, 26421 Hwy 47, Gaston, OR) on Friday and Saturday from 11-4. Tasting fee is $15 and also includes wines from ADEA and Matello.

We're done with Harvest 2010

Barreled (or barrelled - I'm not sure) the wine from the last three fermenters yesterday. It's been a whirlwind this year. The entire process from the start of picking the first grapes to everything in barrel or tank has taken 25 days. This is two weeks faster than a typical harvest, but we've never picked the entire vineyard in a single day before either.

Attached are some pictures of the barreling process - you can see the barrels and the fermenters, the stainless steel torpedo in the fermenter, the hose inside of the torpedo and the wine being pumped into barrel.

2010 should turn out to be quite a good year. The 'numbers' - sugar and acid levels - wound up right where you want them after the grapes spent a little time cold soaking. The flavors were there due to the late October picking dates, so all in all, we're very pleased. Had a nice mix of a couple of medium bodies wines from the 115 clone fermenters, some full-bodied Pommard and some black as ink, robust Wadenswil. We'll have some fun blending.