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RE: Goat Rocks Vineyard - TRELLISSING Begins! - 10/15/2018 8:31:11 AM

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The Rose', so far, is Sangiovese only. About 120 pounds maybe from a half row before the picking crew needed a break. Yielded around 7-8 gallons of must. 3 cases or so likely by the end unless we add more.

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RE: Goat Rocks Vineyard - TRELLISSING Begins! - 10/15/2018 8:36:16 AM

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And to show a winery's work never ends, we did blending trials on 4 carboys of Pinot Noir from 2017. Sunday morning, for whatever reason, is my usual tasting trial time. We both preferred one over the others, and over the blend. I cannot explain what, if anything, was different about that particular Carboy from a production side, but it does taste better, spice notes, cherry, so we probably will bottle 2 cases by itself, Carboy #3.

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RE: Goat Rocks Vineyard - TRELLISSING Begins! - 10/17/2018 10:32:49 AM

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I've never paid as much attention to the weather as I have lately. We had another inversion this morning, 36 low at my house, 32 in Yakima, and I saw bank thermometer reading of 27 when I got near my workplace.

This shot of the Naches River valley illustrates it quite nicely. Layers of warm air on top keeping fog laying low on the river, and even a cloud layer at about 1700 feet I'm guessing. Top of the Naches Heights sits at ~2000 feet, similar to the ridge line across the valley; our vineyard is at 1750-1800 feet. The river is at about 1200 feet.

This road is Shuller Grade, as I am sure BRR recognizes, which is one of 4-5 ways to access Naches Heights from the Valley.

YEP! It really is beautiful up there. My older cousin recently took us for a cruise around there in his GIGANTIC convertible classic Cadillac (with the top down, of course). The terrain is really unique.

Nice looking wine pics by the way, Chris!

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RE: Goat Rocks Vineyard - TRELLISSING Begins! - 10/21/2018 11:15:22 AM

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Killing frost here last night after a series of lighter frost events. Leaves are dropping very quickly and the trees are doing the same today. Basically 6 months of growth and 6 months of dormancy around here.

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RE: Goat Rocks Vineyard - TRELLISSING Begins! - 10/22/2018 8:15:06 AM

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Another fun weekend picking and velocrushing. Saturday we had several friends and family over, started at the bottom and got all Sangiovese in, crushed it during lunch with chili, then picked Viognier/Roussanne and 4 rows of Syrah. By then it was beer-thirty, and the picking crew moved to Cowiche Creek. Yesterday Barbilocks and I crushed the Syrah and white Rhones. I kept out about 10-12 gallons of white must since we liked that wine last year.

My numbers were Sangio 22.5 Brix, 3.2 pH, Syrah (blend) 24.2 Brix, 3.3, Viognier/Roussanne 24.0, 3.2 pH. Really reinforced why Viognier and Syrah are used together, almost precise same ripening curve.

I am, of course, biased, but our fruit this year was/is pretty stunningly beautiful. We hand sorted out exactly zero clusters at the crusher, though we did leave a few raisened clusters un-picked in the field.

Took a glamour shot of the Syrah just after crushing with a tub of whole cluster topping.

We still have 13 rows of Syrah hanging, so the plan is to pick as time (and daylight) will allow this week, and get the rest next Saturday. Our weather continues to be amazing. Highs in the sixties, low high 30's to low 40's. Still no hard frost in the 10-day forecast. But we need to get these in and going because I'm travelling for work beginning 10/30. Barbilocks will be in charge of punch-downs (again).

A funny story, some neighbors came and helped Saturday morning for a couple of hours. After lunch, they had to go, chores at home. Saturday evening I see a post on facebook that they had made a nice batch of Syrah jelly. It looked yummy and gorgeous, but I kinda wondered something. About an hour later I get a text from the husband... "I think my wife took your Syrah grapes without asking! She asked someone in the vineyard, but I know you and Barb were not out there at the time. I am so sorry, what can we do to make this right?" We laughed, invited them to make some Viognier jelly too, and set side a bucket of grapes. And that's how variety specific Goat Rocks jelly got started. Next year we'll make sure to do some of every variety we grow.

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RE: Goat Rocks Vineyard - TRELLISSING Begins! - 10/22/2018 3:09:16 PM

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Varietal and Estate jelly might be even more valuable than wine!

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RE: Goat Rocks Vineyard - TRELLISSING Begins! - 10/22/2018 5:06:57 PM

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My almond butter sandwiches should be so lucky as to be graced with some Goat Rocks jelly!

Edit: I've noted elsewhere that one of my guilty pleasure pairings is an almond butter and honey on whole wheat sandwich with WA Syrah. I think the Syrah jelly would kick the whole thing up a notch.

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RE: Goat Rocks Vineyard - TRELLISSING Begins! - 10/22/2018 6:45:03 PM

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Both of these guys have drank my wines. They tell me to make jelly. Hmmmm.

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RE: Goat Rocks Vineyard - TRELLISSING Begins! - 10/22/2018 7:02:54 PM

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Both of these guys have drank my wines. They tell me to make jelly. Hmmmm.

If you can make jelly better than wine with Syrah, you'd be pretty wealthy.

..... and I'd want a few cases of it.

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RE: Goat Rocks Vineyard - TRELLISSING Begins! - 10/22/2018 7:18:22 PM

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Both of these guys have drank my wines. They tell me to make jelly. Hmmmm.

Only to supplement the wine, Chris!

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RE: Goat Rocks Vineyard - TRELLISSING Begins! - 10/22/2018 9:16:53 PM

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Both of these guys have drank my wines. They tell me to make jelly. Hmmmm.

Only to supplement the wine, Chris!

I’m good with either

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RE: Goat Rocks Vineyard - TRELLISSING Begins! - 10/23/2018 4:19:33 AM

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Chris do you plan on starting a website for the sale of your booze?? You seem to have a knack for good Syrah.

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RE: Goat Rocks Vineyard - TRELLISSING Begins! - 10/29/2018 8:33:25 AM

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Chris do you plan on starting a website for the sale of your booze?? You seem to have a knack for good Syrah.

Yes, eventually.

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RE: Goat Rocks Vineyard - TRELLISSING Begins! - 10/29/2018 8:52:43 AM

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Goat Rocks Harvest 2018 is in the books. Our longest, 51 days first pick to last, most productive, maybe 3 tons of fruit, and most colorful, our fall colors have been beyond spectacular, and the array of wine hues are coming along as well. Barbilocks and I finished up the last row of Syrah yesterday morning and got most of the Syrah crushed. Still a few tubs for today as we ran out of gas late yesterday.

I am experimenting with Rose' of Sangiovese, a Syrah Port style, and an unintentional Viognier Blush. The Viognier that I caught off the crusher for its own batch had a few accidental Syrah berries mixed in, really only maybe 1%, so a reverse co-ferment kinda, sorta. With the "standard" wines already made or in progress, 7 total wines for 2018, batch sizes ~2.5 gallons (Viognier) to ~200 gallons (Syrah)

One thing I know for sure is that this woman loves me. And I her.

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RE: Goat Rocks Vineyard - TRELLISSING Begins! - 10/29/2018 9:10:42 AM

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Looking good on all fronts Chris. Like I said before, "This little hobby has taken on a life of it's own." Hard to fit in the day job, being both grower and wine maker.

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RE: Goat Rocks Vineyard - TRELLISSING Begins! - 10/29/2018 9:29:38 AM

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Very cool, Chris, thanks for the ongoing updates. That Viognier with a "dollop" of Syrah sound pretty cool. Call it an inverse Cote Rotie.

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RE: Goat Rocks Vineyard - TRELLISSING Begins! - 10/29/2018 10:08:10 AM

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Dedication, Chris. And the creative blush may turn out great! The original White Zin was unintended. Supposedly.

https://www.foodnewsfeed.com/fsr/wine/white-zinfandel-born-accident-still-going-strong

Still not a bad barbecue wine on hot summer day, occasionally.

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RE: Goat Rocks Vineyard - TRELLISSING Begins! - 10/29/2018 10:32:07 AM

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Thanks guys!

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Looking good on all fronts Chris. Like I said before, "This little hobby has taken on a life of it's own." Hard to fit in the day job, being both grower and wine maker.

This last note is the absolute truth. This year I spent mid July - mid September day job working in Wenatchee about 2.5 hours north. Tomorrow, I'm travelling to Oxnard, CA for a 5-6 week jaunt. Barbilocks will be punching down where needed and we'll press on a weekend when I'm home. It has been a bit of a miracle Barb and I have gotten it all done this year, she "unretired" this fall for a temporary but full time teaching assignment. Next year, we are strongly considering contracting out the vineyard work. But we'll see how I feel and what the day job schedule looks like come February/March. We're going to practice Chiva on pruning shears all winter.

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RE: Goat Rocks Vineyard - TRELLISSING Begins! - 10/29/2018 11:48:46 AM

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Goat Rocks Harvest 2018 is in the books. Our longest, 51 days first pick to last, most productive, maybe 3 tons of fruit, and most colorful, our fall colors have been beyond spectacular, and the array of wine hues are coming along as well. Barbilocks and I finished up the last row of Syrah yesterday morning and got most of the Syrah crushed. Still a few tubs for today as we ran out of gas late yesterday.

I am experimenting with Rose' of Sangiovese, a Syrah Port style, and an unintentional Viognier Blush. The Viognier that I caught off the crusher for its own batch had a few accidental Syrah berries mixed in, really only maybe 1%, so a reverse co-ferment kinda, sorta. With the "standard" wines already made or in progress, 7 total wines for 2018, batch sizes ~2.5 gallons (Viognier) to ~200 gallons (Syrah)

One thing I know for sure is that this woman loves me. And I her.

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The Viognier that I caught off the crusher for its own batch had a few accidental Syrah berries mixed in, really only maybe 1%, so a reverse co-ferment kinda, sorta.

What’s this word ‘sorta’? A new Wine term?

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RE: Goat Rocks Vineyard - TRELLISSING Begins! - 10/29/2018 4:11:47 PM

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Very nice Chris. Hopefully those extra days of hang time really helped the grapes. It's a very long season.

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RE: Goat Rocks Vineyard - TRELLISSING Begins! - 10/29/2018 7:02:35 PM

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The Viognier that I caught off the crusher for its own batch had a few accidental Syrah berries mixed in, really only maybe 1%, so a reverse co-ferment kinda, sorta.

What’s this word ‘sorta’? A new Wine term?

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RE: Goat Rocks Vineyard - TRELLISSING Begins! - 10/30/2018 4:24:33 AM

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The Viognier that I caught off the crusher for its own batch had a few accidental Syrah berries mixed in, really only maybe 1%, so a reverse co-ferment kinda, sorta.

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RE: Goat Rocks Vineyard - TRELLISSING Begins! - 11/1/2018 8:33:58 AM

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Thanks guys!

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Looking good on all fronts Chris. Like I said before, "This little hobby has taken on a life of it's own." Hard to fit in the day job, being both grower and wine maker.

This last note is the absolute truth. This year I spent mid July - mid September day job working in Wenatchee about 2.5 hours north. Tomorrow, I'm travelling to Oxnard, CA for a 5-6 week jaunt. Barbilocks will be punching down where needed and we'll press on a weekend when I'm home. It has been a bit of a miracle Barb and I have gotten it all done this year, she "unretired" this fall for a temporary but full time teaching assignment. Next year, we are strongly considering contracting out the vineyard work. But we'll see how I feel and what the day job schedule looks like come February/March. We're going to practice Chiva on pruning shears all winter.

Being the husband of a public school teacher who is currently in a 50/50 time share in one classroom, there is NOTHING part time about it. Kudos, Barbilocks!

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RE: Goat Rocks Vineyard - TRELLISSING Begins! - 2/10/2019 10:46:40 AM

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My home made wines from California grapes went into carboy w/oak in early October, so my 4 month taste test was pretty good although the wines were austere at this point.

I have:
Sangiovese
Barbera
Carignane
Super Tuscan w/Sangio, Cabernet Sauvignon & a little Carignane.

How are yours Chris?

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RE: Goat Rocks Vineyard - TRELLISSING Begins! - 2/13/2019 7:47:39 PM

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My home made wines from California grapes went into carboy w/oak in early October, so my 4 month taste test was pretty good although the wines were austere at this point.

I have:
Sangiovese
Barbera
Carignane
Super Tuscan w/Sangio, Cabernet Sauvignon & a little Carignane.

How are yours Chris?

Everything in barrel in good shape, haven't done any ML analysis, but will prompt that if needed. Happy with the rose of Sangiovese that is in bottle. Bottled a port style that I' leave alone for a year or so. Need to bottle 2017 reds.

About 18 inches standing snow in the vines at the moment. No pruning needed quite yet, so I'm glad I didn't start in January when it felt like spring.

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RE: Goat Rocks Vineyard - TRELLISSING Begins! - 2/14/2019 3:27:07 AM

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Glad you’re safely home bud. Plenty of time before pruning...

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RE: Goat Rocks Vineyard - TRELLISSING Begins! - 2/14/2019 5:34:29 PM

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So far zero pruning for me as well. I have less vines but they are HUGE vines, so it still takes time, but i enjoy it.

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RE: Goat Rocks Vineyard - TRELLISSING Begins! - 2/18/2019 11:37:36 AM

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This picture of our earth work from this date in 2015 popped up on facebook this morning. Happy 4 year anniversary to Goat Rocks Vineyard.

Amazing how lucky we were in 2015 and 2016 to get the vines established and weather cooperated both of those years to be hottest, longest summers on record. 17 was a short season, 18 was long and good.

19 still has lots of snow cover, so earth work is not even a consideration, and pruning will not be until mid March by my current prediction, and who knows after that.

I took this picture this Saturday morning, too cold to roll down the window.

Some old barrels awaiting conversion into furniture. Or maybe planters.

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RE: Goat Rocks Vineyard - TRELLISSING Begins! - 2/22/2019 9:08:07 AM

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Great pics, CiS! My folks just got back to the valley from a week in Cabo. Let's just say that their welcome home wasn't exactly enjoyable. Look at all that snow!

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RE: Goat Rocks Vineyard - TRELLISSING Begins! - 2/22/2019 1:11:02 PM

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I love that snow when in someone else's yard. We are in the dry zone this winter. Younger grand kids are getting on the skis, following their older cousins.

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