Archive for April, 2010

New Releases Launched

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Our 2009 Ortega, Pinot Gris and Robin’s Rose have been officially launched this week with two days of private tastings for our Stores & Restaurant customers.
The feedback has been great, and we expect the 2009 vintages to be a hot seller all summer long - best vintage in many years.
So, if you want to see [...]

Great new labels

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

Our grand release of our new 2009 vintages (whites & Rose) is just a few days away, hopefully at about that time our website will be updated with images of the brand new redesigned labels.
But, just in case the internet gods aren’t smiling on us (and our website gurus can’t get to it in time….) [...]

Trellising

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

The first load of our trellising posts arrived about 10 days ago.  We’ve made really good progress, and our vineyard is now peppered with galvanized metal posts.  What a difference a week makes! 
We’re installing a trellising system that is pretty unique on Vancouver Island.  It’s called Geneva Double Curtain, and it is perfect for the [...]

Stormy Spring

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

What a weekend…  We had planned some bottling on Friday, when a major wind storm blew onto Vancouver Island and wiped out power to many places, including us.
Fortunately we had partial power, thanks to the generator we bought when we were moving the winery, but that only provides minimal power, not enough to run a [...]