Taking Gold at the prestigious Sonoma County Harvest Fair is pretty much as good as it gets for a hobby winemaker.
This week's announcement that Southern Sonoma Country Life's resident vintner, Timo has taken his fifth in a row (excluding the year that we lost our grapes to weird weather & a super-sized swarm of yellow jackets), makes a Gold Medal for our 2010 Que Syra Syrah all the sweeter.
To friends, family, neighbors who stopped by at various stages of the 2010 harvest to help us hand sort the clusters (early mold had started to set in while fruit was hanging on the vine), crush, press, bottle and all things in between, we thank you for making what sometimes feels like a mammoth effort of backyard grape farming and winemaking, so completely worth while.
This one was Marley's vintage. Marley's our 12-year-old, manx-cross vineyard tiger/hunter, so fabulously captured above by young, multi-media artist/musician/sound engineer, Damon Karr.
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