Bottling — Harvest 2025 — Garage Wine Update

Bottling

We’ve finally got confirmation that we will be bottling the 2022 Russian River Zin and the Rose and Muscat June 6th, which means we can plan on a release date of mid July! Details to follow on the release party.🎉 (If anyone is free June 6th and wants to help with the bottling line, please let me know!)

It took a bit longer to get all the bits and pieces finished than we’d hoped, but we have a bottling line set up, we have glass, we have labels, we have official label approval, and all the wheels have been finally set in motion.

Of course, that means this is last call for pre-sale orders. If you haven’t ordered yet, get your orders in this week (here), or if you have friends who want wine, please forward them this email! Once we’ve got it in the bottle, we’ll switch the pre-sale pricing and orders over to the 2023 Zinfandel as well as 2024 Rose and Muscat and the current wines will be at retail prices.

• 2022 Russian River Zinfandel: 40/165 cases remaining. Currently $225, soon to be $450/case.
• 2023 Suisun Valley Muscat: 20/75 Cases remaining. Currently $225, soon to be $375/case
• 2023 Zin Rose: 2/30 cases remaining. Currently $225, soon to be $330/case
• Mixed cases: 4/12 remaining. Currently $225, soon to be $425

Additionally, I’ve been working on a fun barrel recycling project! Anyone buying a case of Zinfandel should get one. (The stands don’t work with the type of bottles we’re using for the white wines).

Winemaking 2024

Now, since I mentioned next year, I thought it would be a good chance to reveal our plans! We have landed all of Roger’s Zinfandel for next year! So we will be making some rose and some Zinfandel. We also contracted for more Muscat, so we’ll be making a bunch of that. I am also keeping my eye out for some Pinot bargains, so we may have some Pinot to round out our offerings.

Garage Wine Update

We’ll finally be able to bottle some of the 2023 Garage wine as well, now. We’re planning to bottle the weekend of June 15th.This will be the first of two bottling sessions. We’ll probably bottle Rose, Petite Sirah, and Port, and the Barbera we purchased but did not end up blending. Then we’ll bottle the Zinfandel in August or so, and get labels on everything. Please let me know if you’re free to help bottle! It’s quite fun. 

Now the bad news: we did lose 15 gallons of the rose to acetobacter. We didn’t dump it, we pivoted it over to vinegar, so everyone will get some homemade vinegar in their wine care packages. So goes winemaking, sometimes. 

Thinking to next harvest (only a few months away! Probably late August), the fact that we’re contracted with Roger for commercial wine next year means we’re a bit more free to experiment in the garage this year. Any varietals you’d like to tackle? Let us know! I’ve got my eye on some chenin blanc but we’ll see.

That’s all for this update!