Winery Sign

The Winery has a sign! It was designed by Samantha and cut out of steel by Agar Welding Service and Steel Supply with a plasma cutter.  Jeff, Zach, and Lars sunk 4×4’s into the ground, attached the metal sign and added a board below with our opening hours. The bottom portion of the sign was printed by Vispronet.  Come check it out!

Finishing the Bar Top

We had purchased a large, live edge, unfinished slab of wood to use for the bar top.  After rough sanding it with a belt sander, we finished it by hand-sanding, using finer and finer sandpaper between applying coats of high gloss polyurethane.  We started off with 80 grit sandpaper and at the end we were using 800 grit sandpaper!  It took about 30 coats of polyurethane and sanding (we lost track of the exact number) over a period of two months.  But it was so worth it:

Pruning Vines on the Last Day of 2018

First Snow

Labeling Wine Bottles

Every new wine label needs to be approved by the federal  Alcohol and Tobacco Trade and Tax Bureau, TTB for short. (Wine labeling rules are found in Title 27 of the Code of  Federal Regulations) After the approval, they can be printed and applied.  We use a manual labeler, which we really like:

Sign Installed

Sammy designed the sign for the winery which was produced by a local welding shop, Agar Welding.  We installed it this weekend:

Concord Harvest

We are in the middle of harvesting our Concord grapes - and ever so thankful for the large walk-in cooler that allows us to store the grapes before crushing them.