Today we have reason to celebrate! Our long time leader and Winemaker John MacCready is blowing out the candles on his birthday ice cream pie! We had a nice little lunch down in the tasting room. Even the kitties were invited! I have to say John seems younger than ever. He seems to have more energy than I do and he is four decades older than I am. How does that happen? What is he eating? Must be the Wine!
Also, Tyler our trusty Wine maker's assistant is blending the 2007 Red Rock Ridged Syrah for the El Dorado Winery Association event "Bring Out The Barrel" this weekend. The Red Rock Ridge syrah is made up of mostly the Estrella Clone that was planted back in 1979. Remember folks we have the oldest Syrah vines of anyone in the Sierra Foothills! The Estrella Syrah has this beautiful oval shape and exudes with luscious juiciness. We also throw in some 174 and 383 clones for color. We are all excited for the turn out of this wine.
The only thing left to say is, stop in to taste it!
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Hello to all the Sierra Vista Winery fans!
Let me introduce myself, my name is Autumn Berry and I am the new Sierra Vista Winery Operations manager and Wine Club Coordinator. I am going to be jumping in on this Blogger bandwagon from time to time for John MacCready our fearless winemaker and proprietor here at Sierra Vista. I just want to warn all of you that I am not a writer by trade so I do apologize if I have any grammatical errors on this blog.
We want this blog to be a little insight to what goes on at a winery from day to day or week to week. Weather it is actual winemaking news, info on exciting happenings or random thoughts on wine; we want to communicate this wine life to you. Life is always changing and moving forward and it seems like that pace is sometimes accelerated in the wine business. There are however, those precious moments where the pace slows down enough for us to notice the little details and slow changes that occur up here on Red Rock Ridge. For instance, Lucy our new little kitten caught her first bird today and is well on her way to becoming a full-blown hunter. Now we just have to get her brother Rickie to catch up.
That said I do hope you enjoy our posts and my influence on them.
TTFN!!
Let me introduce myself, my name is Autumn Berry and I am the new Sierra Vista Winery Operations manager and Wine Club Coordinator. I am going to be jumping in on this Blogger bandwagon from time to time for John MacCready our fearless winemaker and proprietor here at Sierra Vista. I just want to warn all of you that I am not a writer by trade so I do apologize if I have any grammatical errors on this blog.
We want this blog to be a little insight to what goes on at a winery from day to day or week to week. Weather it is actual winemaking news, info on exciting happenings or random thoughts on wine; we want to communicate this wine life to you. Life is always changing and moving forward and it seems like that pace is sometimes accelerated in the wine business. There are however, those precious moments where the pace slows down enough for us to notice the little details and slow changes that occur up here on Red Rock Ridge. For instance, Lucy our new little kitten caught her first bird today and is well on her way to becoming a full-blown hunter. Now we just have to get her brother Rickie to catch up.
That said I do hope you enjoy our posts and my influence on them.
TTFN!!
Thursday, January 14, 2010
A new blog
Well it has been a long time since I wrote a new blog. The big occurrence here was the week without power at the winery after the big Dec snow storm and the two new kittens we have acquired.
Yesterday Autumn and I blended the new 2009 Fleur de Montagne. It is going to be a great vintage for the Fleur. She is a great help with her wonderful palate.
Last month she put on a wine and cheese 101 course where she opened some eyes to what wines pair best with different types of cheese.
Jan 16th she will present "A closer look at wine" which is all about how to taste and judge a wine.
In the future Autumn will be doing most of these blogs so look for more frequent postings.
Yesterday Autumn and I blended the new 2009 Fleur de Montagne. It is going to be a great vintage for the Fleur. She is a great help with her wonderful palate.
Last month she put on a wine and cheese 101 course where she opened some eyes to what wines pair best with different types of cheese.
Jan 16th she will present "A closer look at wine" which is all about how to taste and judge a wine.
In the future Autumn will be doing most of these blogs so look for more frequent postings.
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