Archive for May, 2008

Medals

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

We just found out the results of the two competitions we entered this year. We brought home four medals (3 silver, 1 bronze) which compares pretty well to last year (2 gold, 1 silver), but considering last season was tough weather-wise, I’m pretty happy with the overall result. I’m really pleased with how our Ortega [...]

Wine Tasting

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Last night I was conducting a wine tasting seminar at Black Door Decor in Ladysmith. It was a lot of fun for me, so thanks to everyone who came - lots of good questions to keep the evening entertaining. A key recommendation I made to the participants was that there are two items critical to [...]

Planting

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Over the past couple of weeks we’ve been busy plowing ahead with our planting. We now have 2 acres of grapes planted (foch) and 2 acres of cultivated blackberry plants. Today we have a fencing contractor putting up our deer fencing (deer love grapes). It’s been a very late spring, which has helped us get [...]