A very rough drawing of the winery viewed from near our property line is to the right. The brown squares along the open face are trellises that will be planted to rose bushes. You can also check out a picture of the floor plan here . Next week we’ll be taking these drawings up the hill to our neighbors for their thoughts. I’m fairly confident that we’ll get a warm reception (crosses fingers...

Blanck 2002 Gewurztraminer Altenbourg (Alsace) – Completely closed, to the point where it almost seems corked. At least an hour of air (decanting a gewurztraminer!) is necessary to bring it out, but it still doesn’t show the full spectrum of goodness that it carried in its youth. There’s a dry ...

We finished the harvest on Thursday last week. The quality is very good although there is a small decrease on the quantity. We are lucky to have excellent indigenous yeasts that bring all the alcoholic fermentation smoothly to the end. Some alcoholic fermentation is still going but for the most part, it has ended. When fermentation ends, we do the so-called svinatura, the drawing off or vatting...

We're wrapping up the superlative rounds for the massive Northwest Wine Summit competition at Timberline Lodge on Oregon's Mount Hood. Some 20 judges have been tasting through more than 1,150 wines since Sunday afternoon. This is, by far, the largest and most important wine competition in the Pacific Northwest.

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Wineries clash amongst themselves, and with the federal government, over new proposals to overhaul the system that ultimately dictates what geographic information can appear on wine labels

When you make rosé using the saignée method. But don't worry, it's not real blood. Saignée is the French word for blood and is a special method used in making rosé wines that are darker in color and more concentrated than most rosés.

& conceptual concerns addressed by the instructors in all the College's media-book arts, ceramics, drawing & painting, fibers, metals, photography & wood. I'll be pouring our Anne Amie Vineyards 2006...

The philosopher of Science Thomas Kuhn famously suggested that it is impossible to fully understand one paradigm through the conceptual framework and terminology of another or rival paradigm.I've been thinking about the notion of terroir some more and it strikes...