Action in the Cellar

We will finish carbonation of another batch of Oskyfizzante Cranberry and then bottle it this week. We will also filter and start carbonation of the last batch of Oskyfizzante Cranberry. And, we will bottle a small batch of Cranberry Wine in our Christmas tree bottles. We are

On Monday, we received about 3,000 gallons of Muscat juice we purchased in Mendocino Country, California. We started the fermentation today. We are getting ready to carbonate our Oskyfizzante Cranberry and will bottle that next week. We have six tanks of Edelweiss and this week will be racking three

The first step in making wine is getting it fermented. We have several fermentations going all at once right now and are monitoring them regularly. With red wines, we want to keep the skins in contact with the juice as much as possible so this weekend, we

We have six batches of juice fermenting in the cellar right now. They need regular attention to make sure that they are not fermenting too fast and that the temperature is being maintained. Unfortunately, on Saturday night, a local electrical substation took a hit and we were without

We need to let the solids settle in the juice and then we move the clearest juice to another tank and let the bottom foot or so of the tank just run out into the trench drain to our waste water treatment ponds. After that, as soon

On Monday, we processed the 7.9 tons of Brianna that was harvested on Sunday. Brianna is usually our first grape to be ready for harvest. In making our decision on when to harvest, we look for sugar levels in the fruit, how the fruit tastes, and how much acid

Tassel Ridge lost a tree at our entrance and some damage to the trellis in our vineyard at the Winery. The building did not suffer any damage and we don’t know yet of damage at our three other vineyards. Although we have not been able to conduct