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Fall Bright, The Winemakers Shoppe, 10110 Hyatt Hill, Dundee, NY 14837
HOURS: We are open all year round! We have always been closed on Mondays.

November to May 31: Tues-Fri: 10-5 Eastern Time   Weekends (Saturday or Sunday) by appointment 607-292-3995
June to harvest Tues-Fri : 10-5 Saturday 10-4    Eastern Time
Harvest (Sept-Oct): Tuesday to Sunday 10-5 Eastern Time

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March 29, 2007

From: <winemaking@fallbright.com>
We have surely been sidetracked at Fall Bright. Every now and then a customer will ask if we go south for the winter. Well, NO.....We switch gears from grape harvest to grape wood harvest: pruning vines, collecting wood and making cuttings and bud wood sticks. We are still in full swing. It is our second harvest of the year, a very busy and very intense time. Grape farming is like any other farming. It is a 366 day a year job.

Along the way we have taken advantage of the cold to get our wines stable and ready to bottle. Our wines are made on an amateur basis usually in 5 gallon carboys. (We are not a commercial winery!) We desperately need to get some reds in the bottle! We can definitely identify with our customers. Many of our suggestions are from our own experiences.

Through-out the year we go to wine tastings that our AWS (American Wine Society) Keuka Chapter members host. It is a great way to taste wines of the world or region or of a particular variety. We recently tasted 8 Rieslings. Of course, some were better than others and only one was faulty. It was an educational tasting with many different finishes of the same variety. This is something any amateur winemaker should do. Join a chapter if there is one near you or start a chapter or club to enjoy the some tasting experience. To contact the AWS go to www.americanwinesociety.org and scroll around. Check on the chapters to see if there are any near you and start tasting, learning about wine and what you like.

We (Tom) also breeds purebred Gordon setter (field) dogs and we have just had a litter March 27th 2006. Mother and 9 puppies are doing well.

Marcy Mitchell www.fallbright.com Fall Bright, The Winemakers Shoppe, Keuka
Lake East, 10110 Hyatt Hill, Dundee, NY 14837 phone: 607-292-3995 Open
Tuesday to Friday 10-5 and weekends by arrangement.

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Fall Bright, The Winemakers Shoppe    Tom and Marcy Mitchell
10110 Hyatt Hill    Dundee, NY 14837
Phone: 607-292-3995       E-mail :winemaking@fallbright.com
Some pictures complements of Steve Shanker    Steve Shanker's Winemaking Lesson site