Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:34:45 -0700
Subject: Perennial Vintners Newsletter -- Summer 2006

*Perennial Vintners Newsletter -- Summer 2006*

Contents:
1) Thanks and email listserver problems
2) Vineyard news: Approaching Harvest
3) Winery news:
     Painting
     New Label in progress
     Muller Thurgau bottling
4) Helper opportunities

*1)* Thanks for you patience.  Although this email list has been around 
for about a year, it has never worked properly until now, so I never 
noticed that nobody ever got emails, sigh...  As you've probably just 
gotten a notice about the list moving to another server, the new list 
must be working now, yay!

*2)* In the vineyard, we're on schedule for our first harvest from our 
*own* vineyard.  We're expecting about a half-crop from our first 
planting (of 2004).  This is the *Melon de Bourgogne* (AKA Muscadet) 
that we're so excited about.  Ours is the only commercial planting of 
this grape in WA State.  We're so sure that it'll make a fantastic wine 
here in the cool climate on west side of the Cascade mountains, that 
we've gambled additional plantings through 2006 on it!  We'll know if it 
will indeed ripen fully here in just about a month, so stay tuned!

*3)* In winery news:
   We've finished mudding/painting so it no longer looks like a workshop...
   We're in the process of developing a commercial quality label.  We're 
working with Seattle artist Dianne Gardner to come up with something 
better than my old scanned images...
   We plan to bottle our Muller Thurgau harvested from the Bentryn farm 
next door soon.  No date has been set yet, but it will be by the end of 
the year at the latest.

*4)* If you're interested in helping out at Perennial Vinters, we could 
almost always use you -- please consider subscribing to the email list 
<pv-helpers at PerennialVintners.com>.

Thanks!