Sunday, September 02, 2007

Alamosa Wine Cellars

Sunday afternoon, Chad and I visited the winery. His mom and stepdad, Karen and Jim Johnson, are the owners, and Jim is the winemaker. Alamosa Wine Cellars is in the northern part of the hill country, about 30 minutes west of Lampasas in a town called Bend. We go out to visit every once in a while on the weekend.

I was excited to go this weekend because they had been picking grapes recently, and I knew there would be new things to look at. They have picked a lot of the grapes already, but there were still some on the vines.

We hung around in the tasting room, which was pretty busy all afternoon. I was so excited to find out that the new release 'Scissortail' was out! This is the Marsanne/Viognier/Roussane that we will be pouring at the wedding. At the end of the afternoon we tasted it, and it is so delicious! It might be my new favorite.

We got to see the new trailer again, but now it is furnished and has HDTV. They are definitely making progress. It is funny because the trailer has been nicknamed 'hacienda modular'. I think it is quite fitting.

1 comment:

MW said...

i lived in france for 6 yearswhen i was a teen.
We would go after they had picked the grapes, and have grape cluster wars.
I'm sure we'd a been in trouble if they would have caught us out there in a field, but it was dang fun. We just ran up and down the rows, pelting each other with grapes. Then we'd sit and eat some, then pelt each other again.

Good times. Thanks for bringing back the memories.