We had a glorious weekend out here in Oregon this past weekend and so I didn't sit and write my March blog I went out and enjoyed it. The birds are singing, this junco was so cheerful, the daffodils are blooming and the red dogs have gotten their spring cut. Don't they look handsome! We also have a new puppy here at the winery if you come out during the week. Gus belongs to Sue our marketing manager and is quite a handful! He definitely thinks the vineyard is here for running and takes full advantage of it.
On the winery side we got the whites bottled, always a relief for me and I racked some barrels of pinot that needed to get off their lees. Most of the pinot has finished going through ML and I did reinoculate the chardonnay barrels which I suspect aren't moving. I also tasted through all the pinot barrels. The ones that haven't finished ML are tough to evaluate because the acidity is out of whack but I'm excited to see what is coming. I think there are going to be some great fruit flavors with a nice balance of structure. We even have a barrel of our new vines! Yeah! This is the first year I'll be able to taste what might be coming off our new plantings in the vineyard.
In the vineyard the sap is starting to run and bud swelling is just starting in the foch. I posted two pictures so you can compare the slightly larger buds of the foch to some pinot gris buds that haven't started. The sap drips on cuts that haven't completely healed over yet. So hope for a warmish spring with some good rainfall and I'll let you know this month how things are going.
We had a glorious weekend out here in Oregon this past weekend and so I didn't sit and write my March blog I went out and enjoyed it. The birds are singing, this junco was so cheerful, the daffodils are blooming and the red dogs have gotten their spring cut. Don't they look handsome! We also have a new puppy here at the winery if you come out during the week. Gus belongs to Sue our marketing manager and is quite a handful! He definitely thinks the vineyard is here for running and takes full advantage of it.
In the vineyard the sap is starting to run and bud swelling is just starting in the foch. I posted two pictures so you can compare the slightly larger buds of the foch to some pinot gris buds that haven't started. The sap drips on cuts that haven't completely healed over yet. So hope for a warmish spring with some good rainfall and I'll let you know this month how things are going.
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