SUMMERTIME, SUMMERTIME SWEET, SWEET SUMMERTIME
Greetings, it has been a while!
In April we planted another acre with 950 vines, all Rhone varietals from the ENTAV: Etablissement National Technique pour l’Amelioration de la Viticulture (French National Technical Center for the Improvement of Viticulture (www.entav.com). Â The clones are all grafted onto 1103P rootstock and include 350 Mourvedre (369 clone), 300 Syrah (470 clone) and 300 Grenache (362 clone).
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These additions will offer us even more blending opportunities and results. For example, in a year where one of the clones produces an extraordinary vintage we might bottle that wine as a single varietal.
On August 1, we finished “racking” (see The Oxford Companion To Wine, 3rd Ed., p. 560), tasted and blended our 2010 vintage.  We produced two wines: Anita’s Blend and Zinfandel Blend.  The blends will barrel until at least January 2012. Maybe longer. We will bottle the wine, lay it down for three months, and ship to our wine club members the first week of November. Please click here [OUR WINES] to learn more about the 2010 Anita’s Blend and the 2010 Zinfandel Blend.
To receive your first shipment in time for the 2012 holidays please click here [WINE CLUB] and then fill in the blanks. The first shipment will be 6 or 12 bottles and we expect its cost to be between $160 – $295. With a club membership we will offer a discount of up to 20% on future purchases of our 2010 selections.
Please send me the email addresses of any friends you think might be interested in our vines and our wines. We need 100 members. We will send them an invitation to read our blogs and become a subscriber. We will not add them to our mailing list without their consent. We do not sell or trade email information. Additionally, members will be invited to attend the First Annual Lucy Stomp, October 19th. Yes, like Lucy, we will stomp those grapes (Cabernet Sauvignon) and each stomper will receive some fruits of their labor. We will have an après-stomp lunch at Thomas Hill Organics.  Harvest and Crush run from mid September to mid November, a very busy time. Members are welcome to join in the festivities! Call us at 805.239.2856 and we will arrange a way for you to participate.
ps. This year's fruit looks GRAND!!
“Salute la Famiglia,”
Anita Speciale      Joseph D’Alessio
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