We're picking Young-Inglewood on Sunday! This St. Helena site is planted to clone 337 on a rocky/gravelly bench, about one mile south of Dr. Crane Vineyard. With the low precipitation this year, the berries are very small and concentrated. Being in a warmer part of Napa, Young-Inglewood generally features intense, fruit-driven wines that pair up nicely with darker toast barrels.
I've scheduled 3 separate sort times for Sunday. Please list your preference in a 1, 2, 3 order for which sorting session you would like to help with. We'll be sorting the grapes at 2pm, 3pm and 4pm. I'll definitely, get you into 1 sorting session and depending on the number of participants, you may be able to help out in more. Space is limited so respond quickly.
Continue to check your inbox frequently as we're expecting more picks to take place very soon.
REMEMBER
As I've mentioned before, the work is extremely dirty. However, if you don't mind wine splashed clothing,you'll have a blast.
WHAT TO BRING
The funkiest clothing you own and a camera. Many folks also love to bring a bottle or some light bites to share. I'll set up a couple tables so Vayniacs can hang out before, during, after the sort to meet, sip and snack. The Wine House (winesf.com)
and K and L (KLWines.com) are a short drive away. Feel free to coordinate snack/bottle bringing in the forums. GrapeStuff started a thread at WLTV for food and snack.
If you can't make it to Crushpad, please cheer us on by using via the live Crushpad Web cameras. They'll be able to click on the Sort Cam link at
http://www.crushnet.com/medias
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Yippie!!! I'm really excited that we get a weekend sort! I hope the Sunday sort allows more Vayniacs to join the fun.
Stu
Had fun sorting Young
Had fun sorting Young Inglewood cab w/some of the more hardcore Vayniacs who gave up a beautiful Sunday afternoon to get sticky, juice stained and lower back ache.
Thanks to Chris, Errol, Dan, Serge, Gary, and all the other Vayniac denizens who helped Kindred sort through the raisins (and the occasional spider!)
Roberto
Hey Roberto, Glad we
Hey Roberto,
Glad we could help! We'll look forward to trying some of the finished product when the time comes!
Dan and Lisa Murphy
Hello Roberto: Glad to be
Hello Roberto:
Glad to be of help. I enjoyed meeting you and your wife. There's still grape skin debris under my fingernails today.
I hope to be able to taste some Kindred Wine in the not to distant future.
Regards,
Gary Peterson
Vayniacs... Thanks for
Vayniacs... Thanks for helping Roberto! On Tuesday, we received word that Roberto and Kindred got a nice 90 pts from Enthusiast for the 05 Amber Ridge. (Should be in the December issue). Congratulations Kindred!