Winemaker’s Musings – December, 2020
The grapes are in and the wine is made! I (Nicole) have taken over the day-to-day winemaking operations while Jim has become “winemaker emeritus” if you will. But when he …
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Winemaker’s Musings – July, 2020
The vineyard looks great this season. We were worried about fungal problems due to the heat and humidity, but it appears it may have too hot for fungus problems to …
Winemaker’s Musings – April, 2020
“It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.” That is a quote from a Tale of Two Cities. Sort of describes what we are going through. …
9/18/19
Winemaker’s Musings September 2019 Well it has been a couple months or so since my last entry. After our bitter winter we expected low crop amounts on a number of …
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Winemaker’s Musings Sep 2017 What a summer! Harvest is now well underway and will be done in just 3 weeks. Fairly typical. But, the way we got here was …
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Wow. Just pumped the reds out of the barrel today and sampled them…. Wow… My friends. This is the best Chambourcin I have ever tasted., and that is before I …
Winemaker’s Musings
Interesting season we had here at Soaring Wings. Good heat, but a bit too much moisture. We worked our butts off to get it right though. Overall impressions are the …
Winemaker’s Musings June 2016
Winemaker’s Musings What a spring! The vines are looking great. We are seeing the largest and best growing crop in several years. As most of you know the last couple …
Wine Maker Musings January 2016
Winemaker’s Musings January 2016 Pruning is coming along well. Jimmy and Jeremy have been doing a fine job of it. Will probably plant another experimental ½ acre of some …
Winemaker’s Musings, November 2015
The harvest is over and we are well into “Making the Wine”. It was a low harvest year again due the damage from three winters ago. Since we replanted 20% …