Community Crush: Chicago

The brand new Community Crush: Chicago group is now forming! Join us for an exciting winemaking experience specially designed for the residents of Chicagoland. You'll gain insight into the creation of wine by following your wine from grape to bottle. In addition you'll receive bottles of this sure-to-be killer wine at the end. Cost is only $26/bottle to join!

Here's the schedule of events:

-Sept 9th - Community Crush Chicago Launch Party! Thanks to everyone who came out and made this tasting event a huge success! Check out the event photos below in the group photos...

-Sept 16th - Chicago Harvest Party! We hope enjoy enjoyed a sneak preview of the premium point fruit we will be making wine from this year.

-Sept 18th - Our beautiful Two Pisces fruit has been sorted and our fermentation bin is full. Thanks for watching on the webcams everyone! Stay tuned for fermentation....

-Sept 29th - Join us at 2pm CST (12noon PST) via webcam to watch the 2009 Chicago Pinot Noir get pressed into brand new wine! http://applications.crushpadwine.com/cam/3.0/1

-October 28th- Taste the newly pressed wine! We're sending samples of the wine immediately following fermentation so you can taste what it's like before barrel aging.

-April 2010 - Barrel Sample Party in Chicago

-May 1st, 2010 - Label design submission deadline

-June - Crushpad's Annual Open house: if you're in SF, come taste your wine (and lots of others) & eat free tacos!

-July/August - Bottling at Crushpad

-September - Release Party in Chicago