Happy Holidays from Toucan Wines

Sunday Morning Frost

We woke to a cold morning with frost everywhere - our third or forth good freeze this season.

A Little Rain is Nice!

Finally a real rain has arrived to soften the soil and to help bring out the ground cover - let's hope fall is here to stay for a while. The first seasonal rain was immediately followed by hot sunny weather and any ground cover that sprouted dried right out.

We've been tending the new wines, but now it's time to rack last year's vintage and do the final blend. We'll rack and position the barrels in the barrel room for bottling starting early next year.

Reminder: our $1/shipping offer is good through 12/15/08 - please don't miss out!

Happy Thanksgiving

Special $1 Shipping NOW Expanded for the Holidays

Now you can order any 6 or 12 bottles of our wine (or mixed case order) and get $1 shipping to the states we ship to through 12/15/08. Those states include: CA, FL, IA, IL, MN, MO, NC, NM, and WI.

Order using the Buy Now buttons on the web site or use our order form, or call us directly. This great deal ends after December 15th, so order your wines now!

Terrie's Barrel Stave Candle Holders

Terrie's barrel stave candle holders are now available to order from our web site and shipped in the 48 contiguous states. Terrie selects the perfect sized stave, sands, drills, stains and waxes each one. Includes five glass candle holders with candles.

Netting a Big Job

This afternoon we finally got all the netting back into bags and stowed away until next year. This is always a big job for Terrie and me. This year we really stuck with it and after four part days got it done. And it's a good feeling to have this behind us, it means that we have little to do in the vineyard until pruning in late winter.

Sunset in the Vineyard

Fall Has Arrived

The last of the 08' vintage is slowly fermenting in the cellar. It's only been a couple of weeks but I missed the perfume of the yeasty Raspberry/Blackberry brew.

We have started pulling nets from the vineyard (a slow and dirty job), but over the last couple of days rain has slowed progress.

We love the first rain of the season. It cleans up the dust and gets the hills growing again. This was a perfect drizzle, not a big down pour that always causes erosion.

Another Toucan Harvest Complete

With some good help this weekend we finished picking the last of our estate vineyard. The last bin of grapes turned out super sweet and with dark color.

It always feels good to have the harvest behind us, now we'll remove nets and give the vineyard a needed drink. After this last batch of wine is barreled down, we'll start a few fall projects on the farm.

2008 Vintage Images

Here's the 2008 Vintage Images movie, thanks to all our volunteers this season for all your hard work, doing a great job, and then coming back for more!