Label of the Month: LotM for November
Fanna Wrecked ‘Em’s Player Profile Favorite Beverage : wine – cheap or spendy, I’m not picky, as long as it’s not pink. The above player profile quote is what I turned up while searching for more info on the Derby Girl wine label of the month for November. What I knew: Derek DesVoignes is a winemaker friend of mine (or more friends with Jon, but let’s not get too technical) owning and operating the Woodinville winery Cuillin Hills. Cuillin Hills is a classic Washington micro-winery specializing in Rhône-style Syrah and producing roughly 1000 cases per...
Read MoreBlending Merlot
After agonizing over the perfect balance of flavors and structure through blending trials, we decided on our final blending recipe for our 2007 Merlot. We moved aging wine out of our shiny tank to make room for this newest creation. After the usual cleaning ritual, I began the blending process alone one evening. I would be bulldoggin solo this night. And everything would have gone perfectly fine and good except for the bad luck of running the nitrogen tank empty part way through the transfer. The transfer line is heavy enough when full of wine that if I had let go, I would have lost the...
Read MorePreparing ’07 Merlot
We’re getting close to bottling our 2007 My Derby Wife Merlot. That’s right, WineGirl Wines’ newest offering is inspired by the great sport of roller derby and specifically by Seattle’s Rat City Rollergirls. Here’s some photos of us moving some tanked ’07 Merlot to prepare for blending with another excellent Merlot that’s still in barrel. Our aging tank is our holding tank is our blending tank, so daily operations require some careful planning or quick thinking. We like the color dark, dark. We won’t filter this wine to retain all that...
Read MoreWhat’s New with the Old?
New pictures in old blogs! This is a fun one! Check out the Movies & Malbec Video link added to this post courtesy of our good friend shadenfreude lola. In Setiembre on the Farm-Part Dos, here, there’s a new image of the Bobcat with the rake on it, that I was driving to clean up the old apple root debris pulled up by the shanker. Pictures of the Haney family visit at the grand release party were added here. Check them...
Read MoreWhere’s Wino?
Time to play Where’s Wino? Here’s the game: I post a picture of a place where WineGirl Wines has their wine and you try to guess where on earth it could be! Hint 1: WA State. Hint 2: East of the Cascades. Be the wino winner. Cheers, WineGirl Post here with questions, hints or clues… Have a better picture of yourself or a friend and a WineGirl Wine? Submit it here or email me at...
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