2009 Ushers in New Wines to the Sweet Valley Family
PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE. Our Sweet Valley Wines Family has been very busy since fall of 2008 and into the spring of 2009. October 2008 brought a bountiful crop for us to crush while at our barrel tasting in December our wines sampled and savored brought promising reviews.
The following notes were quoted from our winemaker, Josh McDaniels, in regards to fall 2008’s harvest.
This year’s growing season started off late with bud break pushing later than usual at almost a month into the season! With high summer temperatures the vines slowly caught up and before we all knew it our wine makers were harvesting, 7 Hills Merlot, this season’s first crop! This hot site has been fun to work with as I learned more about making different wines from the different vineyards. New yeast strains and barrel programs were introduced to the 2008 wines. With these new techniques I have seen pretty aromatics, gently extracted tannins and quite possibly the darkest wines I have ever seen in my young but five year career!
Our most recent wine reviews have shown very well and we all are excited to see what our wine club and loyal customers have to say as well! This May we will release our new 2007 Double Barrel Red and 2008 Viognier. In the fall of 2009 we will finally release our much anticipated 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon in addition to our 2007 Merlot and 2007 Syrah. Last but not least is the exciting debut of highly anticipated second label. With the name RIGHTEOUS WINES, how can we go wrong? Under this new label we are releasing our highly praised 2007 Malbec along with limited release 2008
Rosé and finally 2007 Red Wine, all created to make those ever sweet memories!
Stop by our tasting room in in early May to taste our Righteous Wines in addition to our 2009 Spring releases of Sweet Valley.
Cheers from the Sweet Valley Family to you and yours!!!!