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Cabernet Sauvignon Aging Nicely
We had an opportunity to stop by Vint Hill Craft Winery yesterday to taste our 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon still in a French oak barrel. The last time we tasted it was last summer. Wow! What a difference...
View ArticleBottling Today – Graduation
We’re just hours away from bottling our 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon we crafted at Vint Hill Craft Winery in Virginia. This day feels like a graduation, however, it is just one more step in the process of...
View ArticleAlmost a Year After Bottling
People have commented that wine is a living thing. It changes and evolves in a wine bottle. It is easy to understand how it evolves while in French oak for twenty months. But it also changes in the...
View Article2145 and Counting
2145 and counting. That is the number of growing degree days in the Oakville area of Napa. We are sourcing grapes from Stagecoach Vineyards in the Atlas Peak area of Napa Valley. Their growing degree...
View ArticleAlmost Ready to Harvest
It is a bit more difficult to follow the harvest when it is a few thousand miles away. Growing degree days is just one measurement. In the Oakville area of Napa the number of growing degree days as of...
View ArticleGrapes Traveling
Harvested just a couple days ago, our Cabernet Sauvignon from Stagecoach Vineyards are in a refrigerated truck making their way to the east coast. I was curious as to the number of growing degree days...
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Destemming & Crushing Atlas Peak Cabernet Sauvignon
Our grapes arrived from Stagecoach Vineyards in the Atlas Peak AVA of Napa Valley. They were harvested last week and were in pristine condition. There were 23 lugs of grapes awaiting Kathy and my...
View ArticleDestemming and Crush 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon
We destemmed and crushed the Cabernet Sauvignon yesterday at Tin Lizzie Wineworks in Clarksville, Maryland. Now that we know what we are doing before we do it, the process is much faster. Check out the...
View ArticleWinemaking Yeast Selection: Not as Simple as in the Kitchen
Our must was rather cold yesterday so we decided to hold off adding yeast until today. A winemaker has a vast selection of yeasts to chose from. In the kitchen, Kathy usually has a choice of using Red...
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Bottling our 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon
After almost 21 months in barrel, it was time to bottle our Atlas Peak AVA, Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. We received the grapes from Stagecoach Vineyards on October 20th, 2012. After destemming and...
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