It's officially the harvest season! Our first few bins of Estate Sauvignon Blanc came in on Monday, August 25. Winemaker Stephen Tebb gave a nice toast....and sabered a bottle of sparkling to officially start the 2008 Crush. Tom took this great video of the monumentous event.

This makes me wonder about other wineries' harvest traditions. We always do a toast over the first bin of grapes.  We also have Family Dinners, Crush tee-shirts, a Bocce Ball/Bowling event at the end of the season with slideshows and a hilarious awards ceremony hoasted by Stephen.  This year we added a "Family Day" event at the winery...since we have so many employees here with young kids.

Happy Harvest!

We are gearing up for harvest here at Clos LaChance. Winemaker Stephen Tebb has predicted that we will start on August 26 with Sauvignon Blanc from the Estate Vineyard.

Please click here to visit the first of Stephen's Harvest 2008 Video Blogs. In this edition, Stephen discusses the 2008 growing season...the ice, the fire, the wind...a challenging growing season, nevertheless.

Click on play below to see our very first video blog.