Playing Catch Up

My New Year's resolution to blog at least once a month quickly disintegrated. I am ashamed, because there is so much to talk about. But I will try, try again. I may be preoccupied by other things, but I am not going to quit that easily.

What's been going on:

1. We finally put a sign up at the vineyard- it looks awesome!

2. This season of wine competitions brought many awards our way. Here's the final tally:

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2008 TreViti Wines Chardonnay, Stolo Family Vineyard

Silver Medal: 2011 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition
Platinum Medal: 2011 Monterey Wine Competition (nominated for Best of Show White Wine Category)Silver Medal: 2011 Orange County Fair Wine Competition
Bronze Medal: 2011 Long Beach Grand Cru Wine Competition

2008 TreViti Wines Pinot Noir, Stolo Family Vineyard

Silver Medal: 2011 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition

Silver Medal: 2011 Monterey Wine Competition

Silver Medal: 2011 San Francisco International Wine Competition

Silver Medal: 2011 Los Angeles International Wine Competition

Silver Medal: 2011 Orange County Fair Wine Competition

Silver Medal: 2011 Long Beach Grand Cru Wine Competition

2007 TreViti Wines Syrah, Stolo Family Vineyard

Silver Medal: 2011 San Francisco International Wine Competition
Bronze Medal: 2011 Los Angeles International Wine CompetitionBronze Medal: 2011 Orange County Fair Wine Competition

3. My parents, Luke Pope, and I did a radio interview with Lyn Diehl for The Krush 92.5. It was unbelievably fun and nerve-racking at the same time. I think it turned out great! Listen to it here:

http://radio.securenetsystems.net/radio_player_large.cfm?stationCallSign=KKAL-OD

4. It looks like harvest is going be a fantastic one this year. We are scheduled to pick both blocks of Pinot Noir October 14 and the Chardonnay will probably come off the following week. Our Syrah did not make it again this year, due to the cold year, but we look forward to it returning next year. The early winter storm at the beginning of October concerned us a bit, but Luke assured us that warm weather was waiting behind it and he was right. We will be able to get our brix right where we want them due to waiting out the rain and giving the grapes a bit more sunshine.

We are so close to breaking ground on our winery and tasting room. It's looking like Novemberish. I will keep you posted, I promise :)

2011 Monterey Wine Competition

We entered the 2011 Monterey Wine Competition a month ago in an ongoing effort to get our wines "out there" and see what others really think (other than friends and family members). Once again, we were floored with the results that came back this week:


Platinum- 2008 TreViti Wines Chardonnay Stolo Family VineyardSilver- 2008 TreViti Wines Pinot Noir Stolo Family Vineyard

*we did some research on what platinum actually means, and to our surprise, it means that our TreViti Chardonnay was nominated for Best of Show in the white wine category!

This little vineyard continues to surprise us...this time in a good way.

2011 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition Results Are In

Picked up the mail yesterday and noticed the envelope from the SF Chronicle Wine Competition peeking out among the catalogs and junk mail. "Oh, no," I thought. "The results are in". With a surge of nervous anticipation I opened the letter to find that we had placed!

2008 TreViti Wines Stolo Family Vineyard Chardonnay----- Silver!
2008 TreViti Wines Stolo Family Vineyard Pinot Noir------- Silver!

I called my parents to tell them the fantastic news and together we looked up the results on the internet. I was shocked to find out that the Chronicle had again broken their record number of entries this year. The competition is the largest wine competition of American wines in the world and our tiny 9 acre vineyard, 350 case winery, went up against a staggering 5,050 entries. What a great way to start the new year.

Congrats to all those who placed, especially our local Central Coast wineries!

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