Red, Red Wine...

The end of January its quickly approaching. The frosty weather makes everything seem to slow down. While the wine is still here and available for tasting it isn't flowing as abundantly as it is during the busy season. Though during the week it's slow, the weekends seem to be hopping right along with our music series continuing through the winter. Our music events are a nice change of pace getting people out and about and drawn here to the winery. The cafe is still serving up great food throughout the winter as well. Chef Ernesto is still serving up a wide variety of daily specials. Any of our pizzas are killer with a glass of Vino Rosso, or your choice favorite! Having bottled beer available also means we don't discriminate against those non wine drinkers.

The banquet hall has been pretty calm as well, even though the phone calls keep coming in from future brides checking in to see if their date is still available. The big banquet event of this weekend is our Bridal Extravaganza. It's free to the public and is running from 11-1pm this Saturday, February 5. This is a great way to scope out a potential venue while also having the opportunity to speak with other bridal vendors. It's going to be a great event to get a taste of what any bride's big day could look like.

Jenna's also down in the cellar working away to make great wines out of our excellent 2010 vintage. From the looks and tastes of some of the wines that we've seen samples of, things are going to be very fruity and delicious. Jenna's got plans for a Pinot Noir dry rose which from samples tastes great already even early on. While we're anxiously awaiting the 2010 releases, we're excited that we're getting Chardonnay back on the line up! For those Chardonnay fans, you may know we've been out of our Chardonnay for about 2-3 months. After some barrel aging, and then bottle aging, we're ready to release our 2009 Chard. It's very fruity and even better than the 2008. That was the general consensus among all of us who tried it but we'll let you be the judge! Feel free to leave me some feedback once it's released and what you think.

Cheers!