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Perennial Vintners | In this issue: |
| ▪ Hours/events: Wine Around the Rock & Summer hrs | ||
| ▪ Running low wines, special sales | ||
| ▪ Wine Club | ||
| Newsletter -- Aug-2022 | ▪ Awards | |
| Click here to view in HTML on website | ▪ Vineyard: weed control, leaf pulling | |
| http://www.PerennialVintners.com/ | ▪ This year's weather | |
▪ Hours/events: Wine Around the rock & Summer hrs
Wine on the Rock
will be a special summer event this year -- Wine Around the Rock! Sat
13-Aug, the boat loads in Winslow at 5:00pm (sails at 5:30pm), back at 8:30pm. Five of the Bainbridge
wineries will have their winemaker and wines (paired with food) on board - we'll be on the Argosy boat
Good Times II. Detailed event information and ticket sales at Eventbrite - get your tickets soon, we're nearing sold out!
Reminder we're currently open Summer hours:
Fri, Sat, Sun 11am-6pm
Mon 11am-5pm
Tue-Thu by reservation only, call/txt 206-200-5902
We'll go back to Winter hours (weekends only 11am-5pm) after Labor Day weekend.
▪ Running low wines, special sales
Summer sales have been brisk, and we're rapidly running low on some current releases.
Frambelle 2019: last few cases - there won't be another one soon as we were unable to get sufficient fruit from neighbor farm due to poor weather conditions
Syrah 2016: last few cases - this is the Savor NW Double Gold winner, the 2018 will be up next
Lemberger 2018: last few cases - don't worry, 2019 will be available next
Sprakling Sieg: soon to be low stock - should last through the summer
We
also have special 3-pack sales on several wines for the summer. The
special price is only if you get 3 bottles, no mix/match.
3x Sparkling Sieg NV $66 regular price $28/ea, so 3rd btl is only $10
3x Melon 2018 $60 regular price $26/ea, so 3rd btl is only $8
3x Siegerrebe 2018 $45 regular price $21/ea, so 3rd btl is only $3
▪ Wine Club
A
quick note on our Wine Club. We do not have a Wine Club event in the
summer as shipping wine in the heat can be risky - wine can be ruined by
heat in the back of a UPS or FedEx truck as they're not refrigerated.
If
you're interested, our Wine Club is free to join, with no penalty fee
to leave. All we ask is that you purchase 12 btls per year. All wine
purchases are 20% off, and you and your guests do not pay tasting fees.
We'll send you a reminder 3x per year with suggestions for 4 btls.
Although Covid-19 has made it difficult, in the future we hope to have
special members-only pickup events. You can sign up at the winery or
send us an email.
▪ Awards
We have some excellent contest results to report:
Cascadia:
Sparkling Sieg, Silver; Sparkling Rose, Silver
Bellingham NW Wine Competition, every wine we entered got a medal!
Rubrus, Silver; Melon, Silver; Sieg, Silver; Fram, Gold; Sprklng Seg, Gold, Sprklng Rose, Double Gold
▪ Vineyard: Weed control, leaf pulling
The
main work this time of year is mowing, line trimming and weeding.
We're beginning leaf pulling, where we remove leaves that
block sunlight and airflow from the grape clusters. We're also topping
the vines (hedging). In the new Zweigelt block, we've drilled all the
post holes and installed most of the posts. We still need to finish
installing posts, and get the trellis wires hung.
▪ This year's weather
If
you live in the Pacific NW, you know what a strange year this has been
for weather, As mentioned in the previous newsletter, we had an early
warming, followed by a late frost, which clobbered many buds. The
secondary buds are coming up nicely, so the plants are still healthy,
though we will have a smaller than normal harvest as secondary buds are
not as fruitful as primaries. Following up since then, the weather was
colder than normal, and wetter than normal for months - I was worried
that we would be way behind on ripening at the end of the year. We've just had some serious heat, and we're catching up to a normal year's
heat accumulation very rapidly. This can be seen clearly on our
Growing Degree Day (GDD) graph
at our website. Our greatest worry now would be if we were to be
buried in wildfire smoke again this year, cross fingers for clear skies!