While the Cellar Team focuses on Red, White, & Blue® this time of year, they are also working on batches of American Pink Catawba, Blackberry Wine, 2013 Iowa Marquette, and a new blend of Robert Duncan. These wines will all be bottled before we start harvest. The
Read more →Almost every Wednesday in May and June, the cellar crew, with help from others at the Winery, will bottle Red, White, & Blue®. This is the time of year that we build our inventory of this very popular wine. The reason is that we have tank space
Read more →Almost every Wednesday in May and June, the cellar crew, with help from others at the Winery, will bottle Red, White, & Blue®. This is the time of year that we build our inventory of this very popular wine.
Read more →We received Catawba juice last Monday and the cellar team started the fermentation on Wednesday. We really like the nose on this juice. The team worked on several batches of Red, White, & Blue® to move them along towards bottling. The next step is to begin cold
Read more →The cellar team filtered and bottled Candleglow® Red. This wine offers raspberry and plum aromas and flavors on the palate and has great jammy characteristics and a nice finish. We began to cold stabilize a batch of Red, White, & Blue® by chilling the wine down to
Read more →We received more Concord juice on Monday and as soon as the juice warms up, we will start the fermentation. The cellar team bottled another batch of Red, White, & Blue® last week. We prepared Oskyfizzante® for carbonation and we started that process last Friday, April 3.
Read more →The cellar team bottled Oskyfizzante® Pink last Tuesday, March 24. This wine is a nice shade of pink with a finish that is very refreshing. Because these bottles have to warm up before they are labeled, we spent a couple of days late in the week getting
Read more →The Cellar Team attended to the final details for the next batch of Cranberry Wine and then got it filtered and bottled. This batch has a big cranberry nose and while it is very smooth on the palate, it has the cranberry punch on the finish that
Read more →This is the time of year that we are receiving regular shipments of Concord and Catawba juice. Because of the weather, it is pretty cold when it arrives so we have to let it warm up before we can inoculate the juice with yeast to start the
Read more →The cellar team is celebrating their accomplishment of bottling 16,015 cases of wine in 2014. That compares to 13,884 cases in 2013. There are 12 bottles in a case so that totals to 192,180 bottles for 2014. They will start 2015 off with a bang by bottling about
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