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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 http://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.
Welcome to the world of making your own wine.
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