After many weeks of work, we’ve successfully harvested all the grapes for vintage 2023 and almost done filling all the barrels with new wine. What a great feeling to be wrapping up the long work of the harvest season in the Willamette Valley.
Pictured above, Vincent in a fermenter of Gamay grapes from Zenith Vineyard, foot treading the whole-cluster fruit to encourage the start of fermentation. People always ask – do you stomp the grapes Lucy and Ethel in I Love Lucy? Yes, indeed we do. It’s an effective and gentle way to mix the fruit, it’s not just for show.
News – we have a winery open house for mailing list members on November 18, 1-4pm. Email us for details, and if you’re not on our list and you want to come, email us and we’ll sign you up. Friends are encouraged to join you, we find that’s a great way for us to meet new wine lovers, so thank you.
We’ve updated the Buy Wine page with all the currently available wines as well as some library offerings if you’d like to try some older wines of ours. To order, simply email us and we’ll follow up as soon as we can.