While working on the pruning videos, Chad Vargas, Vineyard Manager at Adelsheim Vineyard came by to check on the aliens in the vineyard, and to be sure that I did not methodically murder all of his babies. The good news: an up to the minute look at the lead up to harvest 2011…yes we are thinking about that already!
And while we are here, let’s finish up that pruning lesson.
Read All About IT. Yes, I think that this warrants that kind of headline. Somewhere in the back of my mind was the obvious next step in blog survival, videos. What grabbed that video thought from the back of my mind and launched it into cyber space? It was a simple discussion of what we in the production side of the industry take in quotidian stride, the annual cycle of the grapevine. It was February for heaven’s sake, the winter sun was out and the countryside was full of activity. Vineyards were being pruned throughout the Willamette Valley, the first of many activities that will end in another harvest.
It became as clear as a lens with vaseline that it was the time to focus on video.
OK, so that was a ……. start. But please let me introduce you to my video guru Dan Kaufman.
He has been instrumental in taking these adventures from that above to this below. Video #1:
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Our first bottled wine is both lush and fresh due to low yields and early picking respectively. The aromas are effusive and robust exhibiting wild black raspberry and garrigues. The flavors are a bit more tame, with an array of red/black fruit flavors and an earthly, brambly finish supported by silky tannins. Read more...
