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Last Fruit!

Today is a joyous day at the winery, to be celebrated with raucous cheers and a mammoth pizza: the last day of fruit receival.  People often confuse the last day of fruit with the mythical “end of harvest”, but rest assured this is not the case.  Although you may bring in the last of the [...]

Pinot Gris, Sauv Blanc, Gewurz All In

Harvest update!  The 2009 vintage is well underway despite an agonizingly slow/late start.  We’re now ramping up into some of our larger volume varietals and are trying to keep the influx of fruit into the winery at a steady, manageable pace. We have picked all of our Pinot Gris, Sauvignon Blanc, and Gewurztraminer, and are [...]

First Fruit of 2009 Harvest

As announced on Twitter, the winner of the “first grape variety to be picked at Creekside in 2009″ goes to:  Pinot Gris.   Two separate blocks of Gris were harvested on October the 1st. We had a poll running for a couple of weeks to see if any intrepid guessers could nail down the right answer, [...]

Wine Profile: 2008 Pinot Grigio

Look, we’ll be honest…we wish we had tales of struggling ferments, crazy blending trials, and other tidbits of insider information, but this wine all but made itself. Clean fruit, clean careful ferment, clean filtration…just plain clean, crisp, varietally correct aromatics and a really refreshing palate.

Demi-Muids

With the release of the Undercurrent 2006 Headless Shiraz fast approaching (April 4th), it seems apropos to have a look at how it got the moniker “headless”. The 2006 vintage marked the first year that Creekside purchase a demi-muid barrel, a larger capacity vessels of about 620L compared to the standard French barrique of ~225L. [...]