Happy 2015!

We bottled our 2013 Damiano Vineyard Viognier, Trimble Vineyard Carignane, Eaglepoint Ranch Counoise and Kick Ranch Grenache and Syrah last Thursday.  These wines — about 500 cases — now need to rest in their bottles, and we hope to send them your way in 2015. 

A Happy New Year it will be!

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

Bottled up

 

OK, these pictures aren’t great, but bottling our wines is not necessarily the most glamorous part of making wine.  With the cost of bottling equipment sky high, most wineries, including Stark,  bring in mobile bottling crews for a day of loud bottle rattles and crashes and even louder music.  We bottled our 2012 Viognier and Counoise, among others, last week.  All went well.

The wines need to develop in the bottle for a few months now.  You’ll see them next year.