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WOW…where did those days go?? I am trying diligently to post a blog EVERY day and as you can see, I have failed miserbly!  Here’s why…

10/9 and 10/10, I spent 11 1/2 hours each day out in the vineyard applying our bird netting…whew…glad that has been completed. Real satisfaction knowing our crop won’t go to the birds!

Yesterday, Terry processed 7 tons of pinot noir from the South Fork Vineyard  (maintained by Melrose Vineyard),all by himself.  I went off to host a dinner in Roseburg for Women for Wine Sense.  Hilda Jones from Abacela invited them down and since they didn’t stop by our tasting room, I got to serve Brandborg wines for their dinner held at the Wildlife Safari in Roseburg.  What a great bunch of women!  I had a blast!

Photos follow

The chefs (Carla & Scott Rutter) Hilda Jones and myself

Hilda Jones from Abaceala playing with my props (is this what they do at these dinners)??

The Women 4 Wines Sense Group (CA,OR & WA represented)

Photos from yesterday…

Things were pretty quiet today at the winery, the fruit we were supposed to receive will arrive tomorrow.

On the vineyard side of things, all our measures to drive away the cedar waxwings have been unsuccessful.   For those of you who aren’t familiar with them, they are a very beautiful small (migratory) bird, light gray with a yellow belly and a black mask like a raccoon. They send in their scouts and when the fruit starts to get close to ripening, they invite their whole extended families to join in on the feeding frenzy!  It is enough to make a grapegrower grouchy and anxious.  So we are rounding up some troups to help apply our netting tomorrow.  A lot of labor, but when compared to losing your whole crop to birds, there is no comparison. We can’t quite figure out why they seem to be attracted to our vineyard and not the others in the area.  Maybe due to the fact that we are an isolated hilltop, or maybe just because they know a good taste when they do!

Cold temp last evening 42 degrees…don’t want to be concerned about cold now too!  Farming is farming and control what you can and let the rest GO!  It is easier said than done for me,,,

Cheers and looking forward to another day tomorrow!

We crushed our first Pinot in Elkton today from the Westbrook Vineyard.  It is approximately 5 miles North of Sutherlin, OR.  This fruit was harvested on Sept 16 last year.  So…that makes it about 3 weeks behind.

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Bobby Lees & Henry

More photos to follow as soon as I figure it out!  Exciting day, fruit arrived in great shape, clusters are smaller from this vineyard than they were last year.  Grape flavor!!!  I experienced dumping the grape bins into the hopper, using the forklift, (might not seem like much, but it really is).  Couldn’t get the smile off my face.

My husband, Terry , is a master with the forklift, he teases that he attended Fork U.

More grape fun tomorrow : )

Sue

Received our first Pinot Noir fruit from the Westbrook Vineyard.  They are about 5 miles North of Sutherlin, OR.  Fruit from this vineyard was harvested on September 16 last year…..so….about 3 weeks late!

60 degrees in Elkton…we need more grape ripening time!

Wow…a whole new web world out there, pretty exciting stuff, happy to be becoming a part of it!