Wow, after a brief bit of snow it’s back to warm and sunny here in the Cowichan Valley. Perfect weather for winter pruning which we will be starting this weekend.
Also getting our wines ready to bottle in March, so it will be a busy month.
Hope to blog a lot more this year, would be great [...]
Well upcoming soon is time to think about Valentine’s weekend. We have 3 sparklings that we will be tasting out of the tasting room. We’ve decided to be open so pop by. We have the 2 that recently have been picks of sparklings and the new trial we are doing Salish blackberry sparkling. Made traditional [...]
Time to get out there and prune but we took a break after today.
Well, it’s been a busy harvest and now just finished up with the critical stages of the wines. So things are sitting fine and the color on our new red looks great. First year harvested on our cab-foch! Our helpers are winding down and just finished up on last minute things. Even doing some much [...]
So it’s fathers day today. We are hosting a pig roast in the vineyard, so I’m sitting in the vineyard watching a little piggy on the spit. Not a bad way to spend fathers day. Both our dads will be joining us so it should be a lot of fun.
Here’ a picture [...]
Just got back from the 9th annual Tofino Wine Festival. What a great weekend- fabulous weather and a well organized, relaxed atmosphere tasting weekend. We love the festival - it’s a chance to get away to Tofino for a weekend getaway. Our girls get to go surfing at Bruweiler, we get to [...]
Results from the ACWC are in, our wild blackberry has won a Silver medal - again; making it the best blackberry in Canada once again.
Consistently beating all competitors in its category, it’s won us more medals then any other wine. Won’t be released until summer- look for it in a great new bottle
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Just talked with Parks Redwine (the organizer - and yes thats his real name)
Sounds like we’re bringing home silver medals for our Pinot Gris 2010, Ortega 2010 and Pinot Noir 2009.
Exciting results - last time our Pinot Noir won any medal at this particular competition was our 2005 - so very pleased to see it [...]
We travelled from Anaheim to Stockton on Thursday, after spending the day in the park. Traffic caused some delays and we weren’t in our rooms till 1:30 am. After a slightly later then planned departure (bus driver has to get at least 8 hrs off) we were off to Springfield Oregon. After [...]
Day 5 was spent at Universal studios. Interesting comparison to Disney. Disney is polished and very few signs of reality. Universal you would see power points and such to remind you that it was a ride. However where Universal excelled was in live actors - waterworld was a hoot with great production, [...]