Getting Ready For Crush

As you can see, we are cleaning up the place to get ready for crush. Have all the barrels spic and span and ready for fruit. Looks like it will happen in the next 10 days or so.

CdT in NYC

They say if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere, so CdT, I am happy to say, has arrived in New York. After a great day of working with our distributor, Noble House Wines, CdT can be found on some very impressive wine lists. You can now find us at Le Cirque, Bar Americain (Bobby Flay Restaurant), Klee Brasserie and BLT Steak(Laurent Tourondel Restaurant). If you are in the Big Apple, check us out.

2007 Start Bottling

The final blends are done for 2007 and it is time to bottle. I am very excited that we will have our first single vineyard bottlings for Abby's Block, Sarah Janes Block and Tallulah's Run. These are going to be very limited in production and will be available only to club members, but it will be the first chance to do a side by side comparison of the differences between 4 blocks on our estate. Very exciting.

Unbelievable Rieslings

There are some really cool things about being in the wine industry, and one of them is knowing some incredibly nice people. Today, I was in Washington DC showing our wines around and had the chance to have lunch at Hotel Tabard Inn (highly recommended) with friends Robert McFarlane and Dick Groppe. Dick brought a 1998 Clos Hauserer from Domaine Zund Humbrecht, and this is on top of the 1997 when I was last at Wild Ginger.

This is the way Riesling should be and do yourself a favor and get an older bottle of this juice. Racy and vibrant with minerality, with unusual power, texture and complexity. I personally preferred the 98 with its deeply textured palate. Thanks Dick.

Veraison is here

Well, we are in the home stretch for vintage 2008 and we are at the stage referred to as veraison. At this time the plants concentrate on ripening the fruit and have stopped the vegetative part of the season. We usually expect the ripening to happen over about 1 month, so harvest is shaping up to happen early October. As long as the weather holds (high 80s expected fornext 2 weeks), we should have a great vintage. We will keep you posted.