October 2007 Update

Well the Labor Day Celebration was a total success, and we again connected with old friends, and made lots of wonderful new friends.  Cubaneo, and Cana Son, the two salsa bands were outstanding, and crowd favorites.  The “Ropa Vieja”, the croquetas, the mariquitas, the fruit salad were big hits as we continue to blend our wines with some Cuban tapas during our weekend celebrations.   The Latin Jazz Group of Greg Wolf was very good, and provided for a lovely Sunday afternoon.  We are already making plans for next year’s events on Memorial Day weekend, and then again on Labor Day weekend.

We are going to stay doing the Salsa lessons at our tasting room with Debra Secke year round, and will keep in contact with all through our client list.

We are planning the first Annual Halloween Celebration at Cubanisimo Vineyards for the Amigos of Cubanisimo Vineyards(Club Members Only), and will hold this at our estate.  Later in the year(December), we will hold our first Christmas Wine/Dinner which will have limited seating, and we will announce it after all the arrangements are made in the next month.

We are getting ready for harvest, and the excitement at this time is combined with anxiety as we pray for good weather in the last two to three weeks.  The winegrapes looks very good, the crop load is modest this year.   More on this will come to you through our newsletter.

Finally we bottled the Rosado de Pinot noir, and it has all the elegant qualities typical of our Rosados, though it is representative of the vintage (2006) in the challenge we had with elevated brix, and as such one notes a hint of residual sugar.  We are very pleased, and look forward to sharing this very popular wine with all. 

We also bottled the 2006 Pinot noir, and this year we have a wonderful elegant Pinot noir from our Victoria Vineyards bloc, and a beautiful, silky classy Pinot noir from our Vendemia Vineyard bloc we are going to be selling as our reserve.  The latter with only 50 cases available.   The 2006 Pinot noir will not be released till January 2008, but we will doing a pre-release tasting during our Thanksgiving Weekend tasting.