I am writing this from a friends house in Vancouver, Washington. This week I did ridewiths with sales representatives of my Oregon distributor. We worked in Eugene, Corvallis, and Portland. Successful I think!
On the way to wrapping up the week with a meeting of all the distributor's staff Friday morning I received a call from my assistant winemaker that our Sauvignon Blanc supplier called and wanted to pick Sunday. He told me last week that the grapes would not be ready to pick until the last week of August. Of course we can't pick Sunday the 17th because Barbara and I will be flying home Sunday. On the way home I will stop by the vineyard and sample to verify that the grapes are actually ready to harvest. If so it will be the earliest start of harvest ever. Why so early? I suspect it is because the vineyard got hit with frost and is not carrying as heavy a load as usual and therefore is ripening faster. Another factor is that Amador is much hotter than Sierra Vista. The earliest of our grapes look to be 2-3 weeks from harvest. This is a real pain because we are bottling Friday the 22nd and have scheduled filtering for this week.
Blogs are not just a one way flow of information as web sites are. At the bottom of this post there is the word "comment" underlined. You just click on that and write anything you want in the space provided.
One thing I would like to hear about is if you drink a bottle of Sierra Vista wine that you really enjoyed. I would also like to hear about what food you had it with or if you drank it without eating.
Another thing is as I mentioned in the previous post and will include in all future posts is if any of you know a small wine distributor in any state please let me know so I can contact them about carrying our wine. If you don't know any distributors you might ask at your favorite wine shop for the names of several small distributors and include them in your comment on this blog. I would appreciate it very much. If you do not want to comment on this blog you could email me at syrah@sierravistawinery.com
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Can I ask who your distributor is in Oregon? My sister and her husband are both GMs of restaurants in the Portland area, and I've been trying to get he to check out El Dorado wines. She said once that they needed to be through a distributor in order for her restaurant to carry them.
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