Earlier this week we had a couple big bottling days. We bottled about 700 cases of our 2006 Cab and Star Garnet as well as some Vin du Bois wines. While bottling days can be horrendous, these two days went very smooth. So smooth in fact that we had a little time to shoot a
Wednesday Mike and I headed up to Riggins (three hours) took a play-day rock climbing. The weather was perfect and it was great to hang out with our friend Mike Bockino. They are doing road construction on the Salmon river road which is where we climb so the only times they’ll let you thru is
These past two days have been hardcore! Seriously, hard on the core, and back and shoulders and feet! I bent over, lifted, carried and flipped over 700 cases of wine yesterday and today! My shoulders/neck area is stiff as a rock. Kudos to laborers who do physical work every single day. Yesterday we bottled our
Today was another busy day. Started out slow but the pace picked up quickly. It was great to see so many familiar faces again and I have to say that we have a kick-ass local community. They are our foundation, we would not be here without them and it’s an honor to have them continuously
All day Friday I was wondering how the next day would go. We’re one of five wineries who had advertised this weekend being “Spring barrel tasting weekend”, it’s also Wine-Thirty wine club pickup weekend and we also had a bus group scheduled to come out during open tasting hours. I wasn’t panicking or getting my
Most of my climbing-related posts are conducted on climbidaho.com so this will be geared mainly towards the inner-workings and daily goings-on here at Indian Creek Winery. I think a blog like this will be interesting to have in ten years or so….being able to go back and see what changes have been made, what’s stayed