This 2011 season has flown by. It is hard to believe that it was a year ago now that the Weber family so graciously welcomed my wife and I to be a part of Orofino Vineyards. I arrived thirsty for knowledge, and wine. John and Virginia are naturally teachers (i.e. patient), so not a day has gone by without learning something new. It started off a cooler season than usual, but I have learned to not get worked up about the weather when John reassuringly responds, "That's farming". And surely enough, we have had plenty of sun and heat over the last two months and look forward to this warm September. Weeks and weeks of tending to the vineyard by hand, of pruning and tying in the spring, the constant weeding, fixing plugged irrigation, the long days of tucking, leaf thinning and bunch thinning, ... have all wisped by and culminated in the anticipation of harvest. It truly is a labour of love. An entire year’s work, time, patience, frustrations and joys will all end up in that bottle. We are but a few weeks away. The grapes are nearly all turned to their rightful color and I am as excited as I am nervous to taste the end result.
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