What a weekend and what a day! Yesterday we put two-thirds of our wines into bottles. The only wines we did not bottle were the fruit wines and the unfiltered reds including our chocolate port and our first year reds which are still tucked away in our French oak barrels. 
With the help of Mark at Virginia
Wine Bottling and our crew of volunteers we worked 12 hours and got our Vidal Blanc, Niagara, Blush, Concord, and Finish Line Red. In the end, we now have all of our wines double filtered, first to two microns using the Crossflow filtration, then using the absolute 2 micron sterile filter on the bottling line. The bottles are washed, purged with CO2 and filled, then corked under negative pressure. The capsules are added and in the end all we need to do is put the labels on the bottles.
After the bottles leave the
truck, our winery volunteers pack cases and stack and wrap the pallets. I will take a picture of the production facility which is now splitting at the seams with our new 2012 vintage. I can tell you the fruits of our labor are our best vintage to date.
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