New Re-vamped Wine Club: Coming Soon
New Re-vamped Wine Club: Coming Soon
We have been working hard to find ways to get our wines out there, make them easier to assess; one of the ways we are doing this is through our wine club. We understand that you can’t get out to the winery every time you’re having a dinner party or, say, eating dinner and so we decided to look again at our wine club to see how we could use it to make things easier for you. On this note, we have totally revamped our concept. Basically we wanted it to be as close to retail buying as possible; flexible and affordable. So we’ve lowered our prices we’ve offered more choices in the hopes that it would enable our enthusiastic customers to have more access to all our wines not offered in the LCBO. The completed changes should be posted to the website soon-keep on the look out!
Summer at the Grange: Whats Coming Up
Summer at the Grange
We are just beginning to plan our festivities for this coming summer. So far we have found some interesting new local talent for our Sunday music days; so be watching the website for updates on dates and guests.
We have also been planning to do more Picnic at the Vineyard afternoons this summer. We hope to have guests join us at the farm for an afternoon of snacking on local food (cheese, bread, salads, fruits etc) and drinking a glass of our wine along any one of our picturesque country lanes overlooking the vineyards. We figured it would be a great way to enjoy an afternoon and get to experience the vineyards.
There will be lots more to come so watch the website, facebook and twitter for updates!
March Tasting Notes: Spring Releases
More Tasting Notes…
We have just done our final tastings of our first Spring 2010 releases, and there is lots to be excited about! The first of the new releases will probably be our 2009 Trumpour’s Mill Rosé, which has been a long time coming for us; we’ve been sold out of the 2008 since the end of the summer. This new Rosé is incredibly unique in comparison to all of our previous ones. It is for one thing, sweeter than any Rosé we’ve produced. Not to the point where it is overly sweet, but it is certainly a two on the sugar scale. It is all sweet bright fruit on the nose and palate, with lots of citrus tones and lots of berries. But what gets you excited right away about this wine has got to be its color; it is a brightest, sharpest pink on a Rosé any of us has seen on the market.
The 2008 Riesling is also soon to be released. With notes of citrus like key lime, lemon zest and mandarin orange our 2008 Trumpour’s Mill Riesling is a perfectly light and refreshing wine. And because this Riesling is in a slightly off-dry style it is the perfect accompaniment to spicy fare. With its pale straw color, notes of flinty minerality, very subtle petrol and a bright shot of lemon on the finish, it is the kind of beautifully balanced wine that you can sip on its own, or have paired perfectly with a meal.
Lastly we have our 2008 Grange of Prince Edward line Victoria Block Chardonnay. Its Golden color is always a sight to behold. It suits the spicy pear, vanilla, custard notes that are found on the nose and palate. But as always, like all good County wines, has a lovely acid backbone that brings with it fresh apple and lemon notes on the palate, good overall balance and the potential for longevity and continual development (we’re saying until 2013).
New Labels Out… and in the LCBO!
New Labels Out… and in the LCBO!
Earlier this winter we were excited to learn that our Gamay Noir was now in over 300 stores! It was at this point when we started to think about how our Trumpour’s Mill labels look among the hundreds of labels on the shelves of the LCBO. We really felt that the daguerreotype inspired labels, while perfectly fitting for a winery housed in a 1820s barn, did not stand out in amongst the full color, animal clad labels that were so common there. So we began the process of finding an image that both stands out on the shelves while at the same time stays true to the image and feel of the farm.
Because the history of this place is so important to us and to this winery project, we looked to the past decades to inspire the new look. In the end, it was clear that there were three decades in particular that stood out in the history of this farm that marked defining moments in its progression to what it is today. First there were the 1820s, when the farm first came into its own, and it was this period that we were inspired to use the old photographic image from. Secondly, there were the 1920s with the hard times of the depression and the ingenuity that brought the development of a chicken canning factory that saved the farm; their symbol we pulled for our Grange wine line. And then there was the 1970s, the first decade in which the old Trumpour Farm was sold; the decade when the Ganger’s bought the farm, and when this project became possible. It was this decade that we were inspired by for the new labels. We wanted the new image to have a vintage Polaroid feel; to inspire our customers today to view the winery as the Gangers had seen the farm so many years ago. The first of our wines to be bottled with these new labels was our 2008 Gamay Noir. The first shipment of these wines has been sent to the LCBO and they should soon be popping up in a store near you!
February Update- By Adam
February Blog- By Adam
February is often a quiet month. A time to relax, take vacation, heal any harvest wounds (broken finger) and count down the days until we get back in the field and back into the swing of things. However, this February saw us bottling thousands of cases of wine. Last week alone we bottled 1517 cases in two and a half days. EGAD!
This week is more quiet so we can get back to doing what we love most, tasting wine. We taste the wines a few times a week to make sure they’re on the right track, but when they’re going through malo their flavours and aromas aren’t a true representation of who they are. Malo is all but over, so it was with great enthusiasm (and a wine thief ) that I found myself alone in the barrel room, meditating from barrel to barrel. This time I was focusing on the ’09 Cab Franc.
All the barrels were tasting nice. Rich colour, fresh fruit aromas with secondary spicy aromas developing. Then I came across a special barrel. Special in that it’s quality was light years ahead of the others. And the others were good. It was a new barrel or first fill. I find it’s important to use an array of new and older oak. It creates an overall wine that is more complex than just using new oak, but I love tasting new oak. This Cab had raspberry, blackberry, vanilla, rich mocha and my favourite, smoky Bacon. This barrel was amazing and will contribute greatly to the overall vintage. It would be nice to bottle individual barrels, but not only would it take away from the whole package, it would be a super pain to bottle…and it’s February, the month to relax.
-CHEERS-
