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Confessions of a Winegrower 1.5 |
A Day to Remember or
"Not just outside, but outside myself"
 I started this blog last year with the hopes of keeping up a regular schedule. Now I notice that my previous post was last summer. It turns out that running a ranch as a family business and writing regularly are at cross-purposes. Ironically, after my first career in business, I saw myself as writer who occasionally trotted around on horseback and sipped my own wine from the terrace while overlooking nature's bounty. Ah, to be naive again.
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Flora Rosé
People often ask us if we have any white wines to offer. Since we have no white grapes in our vineyard, and we make only estate wines, a rosé is the closest we can come to offering a white wine, for now. We are pleased to announce that we will be bottling our first Flora Rosé at the beginning of April. The annual Flora series will feature botanical illustrations of plants that grow in and around our Adelaida Springs Ranch estate vineyard. Our first label features Winter Vetch.
Our rosé carries a light blush color. We did not add any red wines to help enrich the color. We felt that the unadulterated rosé wine offered the purest expression and most delicate floral notes. The Flora Rosé will be relased just in time for spring and summer. We hope that you enjoy this new addition to our wine lineup as much as we do.
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Tastes of the Valleys Pismo |
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We are pleased to announce that Tastes of the Valleys in Pismo will be carrying all of our wines, which can be tasted by the glass or purchased by the bottle. If you are visiting the Pismo area pop on in and say hello to owners Ash and Lissa and inquire about a tasting flight. They have over 330 wines offered by the glass, and you may just run into our winemaker Shannon Gustafson. Tastes of the Valleys is located on Price Street between Guiseppe's and the Honeymoon cafe.
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Written by Shannon Gustafson
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Friday, 03 December 2010 11:58 |
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 I think it's safe to say that 2010 was a wildly unpredictable season, full of curves and surprises. Although this was my tenth harvest working in the winery, it was my only my second year working daily in the vineyard as a "growing winemaker".
One of the events that laid the ground work for this year's harvest was the 12 inches of rain we received at the ranch on October 13th of 2009. Not only did this deluge cause some erosion in the vineyards, but it also contributed more than one quarter of our annual rainfall and gave all the plants a head start on the next season. I was overseas in Australia learning new winemaking techniques, so I had to rely on photos to see how lusciously green the countryside was this past spring.
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 Come support our winemaker Shannon Gustafson on December 4th as we pour our Rangeland Wines for the Women of Wine Event at the Paso Wine Center. From 6-9pm enjoy music, food, art, and wine all created by Women for a $15 cover charge. For more info, click here.
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