Update: White Wine

Note - this post was first published 3/15/2014.

This week we racked our white wine.  After aging for 5 months in stainless steel, it's really coming around.  We're excited about the color, clarity, aroma, and flavors.  We're shooting for another month of aging or so, and then hopefully we'll be ready next month to rack the wine again and bottle our first vintage!

Which leads us to our favorite photo this week: racking our white wine:

Our Wine Project

Note - this post was first published 3/1/2014.

We're working on our dreams not only in the vineyard, but in the cellar too. 2013 is our first vintage as winemakers!  We're still hard at work; the wines aren't quite ready for release, but with a little patience the flavors are starting to shine and we're getting excited.

We've got a red and a white going.  Recently sampled our wine and took it to a local wine laboratory.

When we received the results and a little insight into how the is wine aging, we racked the wine (moved the clean wine off any sediment that had settled at the bottom) and looking down at the bottom of the empty barrel was one of my favorite photos from this week:

Winter Found Us

Note - this post was originally published 2/3/2014.

Who knew we would be so excited to welcome winter?  The weather has chilled and the clouds moved in for a good down pour and crisp wind.  On the Vaca Mountains (the mountain range on the eastern side of Napa Valley) there was even some snow!