The wait is over Epic fans! 2018 vintage is set for its tasting room debut on Thursday August 22nd. It’ll be on the list all weekend so be sure to stop by Thursday to Sunday from noon until 5pm for a sip.
Showcasing Epicure from Woodvine Estate in Comox, with 20% Ortega from Beaufort, this 100% Comox Valley grown blend offers a great snapshot of our cool, coastal terroir. It’s bright, crisp and lemon-hued, and we can’t wait to share it with you.
Stellaris has been coming and going in the store as we disgorge each batch. But what does it mean to disgorge a traditional method wine? And why the wait?
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Click the link in our bio to read about the whole messy process! 🥂🍾✨
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No relation to Obi Wan, LoRaWAN is an open source hardware technology that we’re using to gather data on possible vineyard expansion sites. Specifically, we are measuring temperature in real time, at multiple locations, because no one wants to plant vines in a frost pocket. ❄️❌
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If the initial results are favourable, we can add some more advanced sensors for soil moisture and precipitation.
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Cohen is preparing the sensor modules for installation. For most of us, this would be a nightmare. Good job he enjoys such nerdery. 🤓
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Harvest 2021 is complete. All told, we picked ten varieties over four weeks, which made for quite a condensed harvest. A HOT summer, followed by a wet September, kept us nimble. Harvest windows were pretty tight, and we are grateful for our picking teams who showed up smiling, often at very short notice. THANK YOU! 👏👊💚
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📹: Foch harvest vignette by Liam and Alex of @lobbystudio
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You know we have the hots for our vineyard and grape varieties, but our new apple orchard (yes—the one that we planted in the spring!) is already bearing fruit. 7 different varieties (a good mix of cider and eating apples) ripen at various times during the fall. So far we’ve pulled in Yarlington Mill, Miki Life, Dabinett, and Gravenstein; with Porter’s Perfection, Golden Russet and Aurora Golden Gala yet to go. 🍎🍏
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Here’s a roly poly apple jolly highlighting the varieties. Golden Russets are beautiful don’t you think? 😊
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#TBT this summer, Brian and Lia McCormick invited us to host a cooking demo and wine pairing at Clever Crow Farm in Black Creek. Clever Crow is a magical place to begin with; but cooking for friends, in the middle of a meadow, on a sunny day was a bucolic dream none of us wanted to wake up from.
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The focus was on fresh, vibrant ingredients; and Beaufort’s crisp, juicy, cool-climate wines. Influenced by Italian dishes and cooking methods, the recipes we shared are an ode to simplicity, and spectacular local farm produce. Click the link in our bio for a very versatile savoury frangipane tart. If end-of-season tomatoes are occupying every bowl and basket in your kitchen right now, this is a winning way to use them up. 🍅As for wine, slightly chill a bottle of our 2018 Pinot Noir and glug, glug, glug… 🍷
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If you like the sound of this event, be sure to follow @clevercrowfarm for details on 2022’s workshop and demo series.
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📸: @danikasea @ediblevanisle 🙏🙏
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18•C and sunny is everyone’s favourite harvest weather. No such luck today. It was all very soggy. 🌧☔️
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Clif bars help, but what you really want is someone to bring you a fresh set of work clothes, ideally still warm from the dryer, and a hot coffee. Oh, and a new pair of gum boots that don’t leak at the ankles.
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That said, the Ortega is in; and the fruit is in great shape despite the deluges of recent days. At this point, we have harvested half of our 10 vineyard varieties; Ortega, Siegerrebe, Schonburger, Gewürztraminer and Petite Milo. The 5 that remain hanging (for now) are: Leon Millot, Lucie Kuhlmann, Marechal Foch, and the Pinots Noir and Gris. Getting there!
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