Tony Rynders has decided to do his own thing.
We wish him good luck - he has made fabulous wine from our own fruit, and I'm sure that he will continue to be a major presence in the Oregon wine scene.
Our fruit, in the form of the 2005 Domaine Serene bottling, was highlighted in the April Food & Wine magazine article entitled Finding Oregon's Finest Pinots.
"... as with several of Rynders’s 2005 wines, such as the promising Two Barns Vineyard bottling, a ripe, sweet Pinot with a wonderful ...
Our 2005 fruit has emerged from élevage as spectacularly delicious wine, thanks to Tony Rynders immense skill as a winemaker. Bravo Tony!
Complex, wonderful, wine that really highlights the fruit from this fantastic vintage.
With the exception of 112 chardonnay vines that will be picked for our own barrel next week, Two Barns Vineyard is now officially picked out. This morning the crew moved chard straight onto the flatbed for its trip to the winery, wrapping up our 2007 vintage.
Two Barns fruit ripens early, ...
This morning, we are picking our block of 115, which will be the first Pinot to go to Domaine Serene. We're off and running, weather is beautiful, and everyone looks happy to be underway. Here's pix of the first row of fruit to go, on the western end of "le ...
We've (well, "we" in a broad sense - thank you Joel) planted 4 short rows of Riesling right in front of the house for David's personal winemaking itch.
Brian O'Donnell at Belle Pente, who makes fantastic wine right down the road, has been growing and vinifying delicious Riesling for years. (Not ...
Beth gave me a hard time for featuring only the chardonnay in yesterday's post, so here is an equally tasteful cheesecake photo of our 115, which Tony tells us is bound for the winery tomorrow.
This cluster is pretty typical this year; you can see that it got cool and wet ...
Our fingers are crossed for a Tuesday start - flavors are developing and the weather is cooperating. The fruit is also particularly beautiful on the vine this year; we will hope that this is also true in the bottle.
The weather this fall has been quite cool already, although the days ...
The harvest is upon us, and while it is too soon to say what the wine will be like, the fruit itself this year is picture perfect. The weather has conspired to bring all of our fruit to ripeness at nearly the same instant, and there is very little damage ...
