It was a beautiful fall weekend here at Harney Lane Winery for our Wine:30 Club Holiday Release Pick Up Party. The spirits of Wine:30 Club members were high and smiles were everywhere as our new wines made their debut! Our 2009 Tempranillo, 2010 Chardonnay and our first ever Port Style Wine- Lizzy James Old Vine Zinfandel Port Style Wine that is! They were all hits. Brindy, our wine club manager, created a fantastic Mac & Cheese recipe that paired with both wines. The Mac & Cheese, recipe below, combines three cheeses- cheddar, gouda and gorgonzola! …
>>> READ MOREEarlier this month we hosted our first Winemakers Dinner for our Wine:30 Club. It was a bit crazy in the final prep minutes but turned out to be a great success!! I think that the day was one of the windiest we have had all year and while weather reports predicted winds to die down at 5pm it was still windy with gusts to 30 mph at 6:40 (20 minutes to showtime!) So…..in the last few minutes we moved 1/3 of the tables further tucked in on the patio. So we sat very “cozy” out…
>>> READ MOREWe threw ourselves a 1st birthday party the first weekend of November, complete with chocolate cupcakes and candles. Luckily we rarely broke out into a chorus of “Happy Birthday.” If you have ever heard our family rendition of the song you would understand why. Yes, hard to believe, but just over a year ago, we washed down the cement pad, used every extension cord we could find (since we didn’t have power yet), moved a bar in and handed out over 400 yellow hardhats to our very first guests at First Sip 2008! I told people this year,…
>>> READ MORESeptember 19th and 20th we had the privilege to celebrate our Grand Opening of our new tasting room! Two days of great wine, food, music and lots of great friends (old ones and new ones!!)!!! We think we may have seen around 900 hundred of you smiling faces over the weekend! What a great turnout!! And we are also very blessed to have wonderful friends and family that jump in and help wherever needed. THANK YOU!! It was great to see the space used as it was intended…..a full tasting room, people strolling the gardens,…
>>> READ MOREI’ve set down with a glass of Albarino to tend to a very overdue update of our blog. To those of you who faithfully watch for something new, the latest progress, wine and vineyard updates…..I am VERY sorry. As many of you know, the last month or two (it’s becoming a little foggy and not because of the Albarino!) have been very busy for us dealing with final construction, landscaping, moving and more. It seems appropriate that as the year’s labors are about to be realized in the vineyards with harvest, our 3 years of…
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