Antiyal

Saturday 19 nov, we bottled 29.000 bottels , started early Cleaning the Bottling machine, trying the wine, making sure all is well conected, the first bottles, trying them, chequing all the standards, taste, avoid oxigen in the bottling, we had the visit of Sean and Peter from Yealands, New Zealand, our family too came to help.So we ended at 11:20 pm a long day, but all ok , its like giving one exam a year!!

Tell us what bottle you drunk, where, if you had a nice time, and how the wine was….

Work during spring and beatiful floweres in the vineyards to attract insects We are bottling this Saturday our 2010 wines, lots of work, we will post some photos of bottling on Sunday.

We are now starting to prune ( la poda ) , and putting in our compost toweard the coming year of our vines.

Friends we are in the middle of Harvest, great fruit so far, only a little rain at the end of April, but we are doing well. (Alvaro will be writting some thechnical info shortly!!)

Today Monday 2 of May we are harvesting our Syrah from Escorial, around 5.000 kilos a beautiful day, we will continue on Friday and Saturday with some more Syrah, leaving our Carmenere for the end.

Cabernet Sauvignon was harvested on april 14 from our house, Olivos, and last week from Escorial.

Here a photo of our Dream Team, Ramon Sanchez, Ramon Gonzales, Ramon Rubio , Juan Manuel Cuadra a new helper from this year, and two guys in practice, Felipe Sanchez and Eduardo Ulloa.

Salud!!!

Our biennial end of the year bash on top of the roof and underneath the stars at the Winery was smashing good friends with friends from all walks of the wine industry and beyond.

We bottled on Saturday 4 December and today Tuesday 7th. On Saturday we did our Antiyal (only 3.954 bottles this year), this is the result of the loss from the earthquake, so very little wine, but a terrific vintage, and 700 bottles of our new Antiyal Carmenere, a new blend of Carmenere 95% and 5 % Cabernet sauvignon. So this year very little wine, but great for those who manage to acquire it!!! Today we continue with Kuyen,  hope the good vibes are with us today so all goes smooth!!

Friends,

We have been participating in wine shows in NY, Boston and Brasil, and working our ‘promotions’ some. We hope this will be good for getting out and showing the wines a little more.

In these times, we are about to bottle our 2009 vintage soon in December, probably Saturday 4 of December, and Tuesday 7 of December, both fruit days in the biodynamic calendar.

I am including some photos up of the flowers we get in the vineyards now, I hope you like them.

Oh and we are making a facebook page for Antiyal by popular demand. I shall just have to learn to use it and we are almost there!!

Please check back in a few days, it will be linked here and searchable under “Antiyal”.

Marina