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Winter Tart

01.25.2012

Every time I visit my friend Kristi Fountain at her home, what is intended to be a craft day usually digresses into drinking wine and looking at cookbooks.  Hours go by and we are lucky if we accomplish anything beside planning out meals for a lifetime. She spoils me and cooks the most amazing lunches [...]

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2012, A New Vintage

01.19.2012

What with the lateness of harvest this year, we rolled directly from pressing grapes into the hustle and bustle of the holidays. We now find ourselves back at a normal pace, watching the vineyard tuck deep into a well deserved sleep while preparing this year’s whites and last year’s reds for bottling.
We are currently [...]

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Bringing her home……

10.25.2011

Well, this unusually cold year doesn’t have us beat yet. In fact, it looks like we’ll be able to harvest everything with decent flavors, sugar, and acid levels this year – the fruit has been tasting incredible! Phew!
So far we’ve harvested (in order) our Gewurztraminer, Chardonnay, Syrah, Zinfandel, Sangiovese, Grenache, and Merlot. [...]

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It’s Getting Pretty Sweet Around Here

08.24.2011

Now that the grapes are starting to ripen, the dreaded task of netting the vines is upon us. After dusting off the pile of nets that daunt us 10 months out of the year, we netted the first of the vineyard this week, starting with Gewurztraminer and Tempranillo.
Bird-netting requires 4 unlucky people: [...]

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Just take a nip off the top…

08.18.2011

We’ve finally hit verasion in the vineyard, the time in which the grapes start to turn color and ripen. Our Tempranillo is the first to turn, and we’re predicting it will be ready to pick in 4 weeks. Everything else is a little behind, but we expect things to really start happening in [...]

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Profile: Joan Giannecchini

06.29.2011

With the release of our new wines this spring, bearing our recently renovated label, a lot of people have been asking, “Who does your labels?”  We’ve been lucky to have our great friend, artist Joan Giannecchini, work with us in designing a label that reflects both the landscape and history of our area.  Joan is [...]

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This little piggy went to market…

05.13.2011

It’s getting to be the time of year for fresh produce, fresh cut flowers, and warm summer mornings in the local farmer’s markets! This year, we will be at both the Moscow and Lewiston markets, pouring and selling our favorite wines.
The Lewiston market is held Wednesdays from 3-6pm, June through October. The market [...]

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Going Green

05.07.2011

Though not quite yet on the road to becoming an organic vineyard, we are taking steps towards reducing our herbicide usage to battle weeds in the vineyard. Our newest tractor implement? The Weed Badger. This thing is no joke! It mechanically removes weeds from the vine rows, which beats both having [...]

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Waking Up

04.28.2011

After our loooong winter hibernation, things are finally coming alive in the vineyard. We spent most of February and March processing and bottling wine, pruning vines, and assessing winter frost damage (very minimal this year). Our 2009 Syrah, the second installment from the Dallas Vineyard, was recently released, and our 2010 Estate Riesling [...]

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Pruning!

02.25.2011

It’s that time of year again – pruning.  Pruning can be a zen-like experience; basking in the winter sun, trimming up the vines and preparing them for another season of growth and stellar grape production.  Pruning can also be, well, rather unpleasant.  Wind, snow, rain, mud, cold, and hail can turn a row of vines [...]

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