Our first bottling since harvest. We bottled two Rieslings, one with 1.7 percent residual sugar and the other with 7.4 percent. The sweetness is arrived, not by sweetening, but by stopping fermentation by dropping the temperature to 30F. This is not so difficult as the wines are fermented at 45F.
In addition to these two Rieslings we are aging in barrels a small lot of Riesling to be completely dry. This wine will be bottled this coming summer.
Barack Obama’s speech after winning the Iowa Democratic Caucus. Regardless of ones politics this is a very moving speech delivered by an exceptionally gifted speaker.
This is a truly spectacular effort. Light and music theatre. We can only guess at the carbon footprint and certainly not something we would recommend. There is no information as to where the house is located.
A video by David Lafond using a camcorder in one hand and with the other sampling our neighbor Hilltop Vineyard’s Chardonnay, driving his ATV accross the river, extracting the juice, testing and capturing his disappointment — not easy.
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A short video taken from the Tasting Room at Lafond Winery, a view shared by many visitors to the winery.
Workers first remove leaves and sometimes rocks and even the occasional shears before the grapes pass through the stemmer. From there they pass over a vibrating screen which allows dried and shot berries to fall through. After that, a longer sorting table where small stems, called jacks, are removed. And from there they are collected in a picking box amd loaded to the fermenter.
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