PURCHASE WINE

Update May 2016

2009 Vintage priced at 25$/ bottle.  Non-vintage priced at 12$/ bottle.  Case discount of 10%.  Sales tax not included.



You can visit the vineyard to purchase your wine with prior informal arrangement, just let me know so I can look for you. Thursday and Friday afternoons to early evening as well as Sunday afternoons are best, there isn't a tasting room or facilities.

Local delivery available for case purchases,  local delivery area is roughly the south Puget Sound area with parts of; Thurston County, Pierce County,  south Kitsap County, and Mason County.

For your purchase arrangements and delivery please send a text message or voice message to 360-292-8892 or an email to cloquallumpinotnoir@gmail.com  You must be 21+ and not apparently intoxicated to purchase and receive the wine. ID is checked.

Available for private event tastings and sales, this is a newly allowed sales activity from the powers that be.

Farmers market plans in the works for summer 2016, more details soon.


Contact cloquallumpinotnoir@gmail.com or 360-292-8892 for interest in carrying our wine at your wine establishment.

Washington License # 088280

Vintage 2015

There was no holding the buds back, they started to break on April 19th.  There was some concern of frost nipping them but it didn't happen.  The weather forecast is for mixed cloudy weather through the end of the month so it's likely we've seen the end of the frost this spring.  This gets the clock started on the vintage and sets up for ripening to happen in  all of September.

We made it to May 12th without frost damage.  This is the second one of the early markers for a successful vintage.  The next marker is flowering, looking for fair weather in last part of June.

Flower is in full swing, June 16th.  Weather has been sunny and hot, cooler today, worried about timing up the spray for PM, don't want to do it in mid-flower.

Fruit set is very good, flowering is about done, spraying for PM prevention now. June 22.

Early April

Weather is on the cold side to start off the month but the warmer than usual late winter has the buds swelling nicely. We can see bud break start in three weeks easy with some more warm stretches.  It's just as well to have some cold now to keep the break at end of April.

April 2nd was label approval day! It's going to be a day I celebrate for sure in the future.

Working on getting an e-shopping cart here. Reading up on all I can and can't do on the WSLCB website regarding sales. 

I figured out how to add a PayPal purchase button(s).  The test worked so after I check with the authorities, Washington consumers will be able to buy a 2 bottle set direct from here with a couple delivery options.

Pinot Noir 2009

March 2015

It's nearing the middle of March, the vineyard is nearly all pruned. The vines are waking up with some drip showing at the new prune cuts this week.  The weather experts say  El Nino is beginning so we are expecting a good vintage year.

We are still waiting on label approval, Corrections were made and resubmitted at end of February.

Pinot Noir

This wine is crisp, dry and features a tart fruit profile.  I enjoy it best with either a sweet treat or with creamy cheesy main dish, salmon, rock fish or oysters.     It's best taste profile is at 65f-70f degrees.

It's unfiltered with a dusting of sediment in the base.  It's best to decant at opening in one smooth pour but if no decanter is available it is easy to get four pours without a hint of sediment and the last pour with a just a little kick up of lees.

The fruit came predominately from the 2009 vintage. The remainder of it came from 2007.  It has held youth exceptionally well due to her acidity.  It isn't a problem to have half the bottle push the cork in to seal by hand and enjoy the remainder in a couple three days.

Bottled June 2013, 100 cases

Labels

 We are waiting on approval from the TTB.  Approval received 4/02/2015.