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| GlenLyon
Clan Notes - Post Harvest - Winter 2002 |
We're
pouring our wine now in "The Best Damn Tasting Room in the Valley!"
Squire can be found serving a generous amount of the incredible (and
almost gone) 2000 GlenLyon Syrah one day a week (the days rotate)
plus most Saturdays and Sundays at The Wine Room on the corner of
Hwy 12 and Warm Springs Road, right across from Kenwood Winery. We're
one of six wineries in the tasting room, we all pour each other's
wines and it really is a fun arrangement! If you'd like to know which
day(s) Squire is pouring, call him at the Winery (707) 833-0032 and
he'll let you know. If you're in the area, c'mon down!
The 2002 harvest is over and the wines are resting comfortably in
the Barrel Room at the Winery just finishing ML (the conversion of
malic acid to lactic acid for you oenophiles out there...) This year's
Syrah harvest was brought in smoothly and early on September 23 with
no threat of rain. The sugars were perfect, the flavors wonderful
and we're looking forward to another wonderful wine.
We also left about 3/4 of a ton of Syrah fruit on the vine for a week-later
harvest to make into Port. It's our first venture into Syrah Port
and the taste and aromas coming from the two barrels are wonderful.
It'll be ready to bottle in about a year and there will be only a
small amount of it available. It will only go out to you Clan Members.
Yum!
We also brought in a small amount of Chardonnay from Three Creeks
Ranch (my old HS buddy, Volney Howard's vineyard) and made a wonderful
light-French-oak, fruity, mouth-watering wine. It's just completing
ML and is resting side-by-side with our Syrah. It will eventually
be bottled under our HOG WILDE label and will also be availabe to
Clan Members on a first come-first serve basis. More about release
dates later.
The 2001 GlenLyon Estate Syrah has been bottled and is being given
a little "bottle shock" rest before release. Look for your
Clan Newsletter in March or so for the release date.
For those of you who knew Corky, GlenLyon's Wonder-Dog, she passed
away just before this year's harvest. Suzy, Lexy and I were all holding
her when she passed away and she's buried in the lower valley of the
upper vineyard with some dog cookies, her dog dish and water bowl.
We put her dog collar on a small cross over her grave site. Puck,
our year and a half old Aussie and Corky's pupil, went down to the
site early the next morning, gently removed the collar and brought
it back to the porch at the main house. We all miss her.
A parting thought:
The definition of White Wine: What to drink while you wait
for someone to open a bottle of Red.
Squire
Fridell
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