Tomorrow morning I'll be on a flight from JFK to Oakland, where I'll hop in a rental car to drive north to Santa Rosa to attend the first annual Wine Bloggers Conference this weekend. Normally on a trip such as this one, I'd be warning you about a period of blog silence, but I plan to be doing regular updates throughout the day and then also in the evenings. It's going to be a lot of fun meeting (in person) many of the people I've gotten to know as a part of the wine blog community over the years. I'm…
Posts Written OnOctober 23, 2008
Bottling Reds at Shaw Vineyard
By Jason Feulner, Finger Lakes Correspondent Although Ravines Wine Cellars is located on Keuka Lake, owner-winemaker Morten Hallgren crafts his wines using space at Shaw Vineyard, located a few miles to the east on Seneca Lake. Hallgren and Steve Shaw, winemaker and owner of Shaw Vineyard, work independently but of course try to coordinate production schedules to enhance services and manpower. Before the fall harvest, Steve Shaw invited me over to the winery to watch as he bottled some of the reds wines from both wineries. I was interested to check it out because both winemakers use a mobile bottling…