With the warm temps we have had lately the vines have finally awoken. Yesterday, we saw the first signs of budbreak in the chardonnay, which is almost always first to show leafs with pinot noir following closely behind. This is a new record for the Stowe Vineyard: the latest we have ever had budbreak. Before
We would like to take a moment to make a shout out to Patty Johnson, owner of Snake River Cuisine Tours:http://www.srctours.com/home.htmlCheck the site out!Let Snake River Cuisine Tours make your trip to Idaho Wine Country easy, educational and fun! Our full service tour company offers a variety of hosted “red carpet” excursions to wine country
We would like to wish ICW’s marketing director, T-toda-MC, Tom McKinstry a wonderful BIRTHDAY! Here’s a poem for you Tom: bombombombombom ba Tom bombombombombom ba TomHe’s the marketing guru who sells our wine!He always drinks ICW when he goes to dine!Cruisin’ in the red-hot truck, he’s a balla,You need some Chard? Give Tom a holla!With
If you have a minute, stop by the Art Source Gallery tonight to see “Western Traditions” – come see the Real West of small ranch rodeos, cattle drives, sheep herding and desert canyon lands as captured by Jerry Kencke in his amazing photography. Touch the custom frames he hand-finishes from old, reclaimed wood to perfectly
Yesterday we had visitors from Channel 6 and the Idaho Statesman come out. They are partnering up to feature the Snake River Valley wine country May 11-13…stay tuned for more details. Mike did a great job of speaking well and getting wonderful information across, where as I, Miss not-so-much-a-public-speaker, had some leg-shakes, sentences ending with
Mike and I just returned from a small roadtrip up to northern Idaho and Spokane. We made quite a few stops here and there, one of them including Basalt Cellars in Clarkston. We tasted around 8 wines ranging from a rose, semillon, syrah, merlot and their staple blends Rim Rock Red and Perimeter Red. These
Here are a few photos of the winery grounds. It seems spring has officially sprung out here at the winery and the flowers are starting to bloom. Next it will be the grapes and the vineyard will become a sea of beautiful green, instead of not-to-inspiring brown. We have not had bud-break yet and the
Scrambeld eggs and Riesling are great together as well as Chardonnay and popcorn.
our wonderful friends kristin and ryan hosted a pizza and wine pairing party and I’ll admit that usually I drink beer with pizza BUT wow, these wines were great with the pizzas! Our first pizza was “pizza margherita” – a classic with tomato sauce, fresh mozzerella and basil that went wonderfully with a Merlot from
From the marketing side………….our Ruby Dahlia dessert wine has made the big time. You can purchase the wine in the state State liquor stores throughout treasure valley. This is the only place, other than the winery, you can purchase it. $19.95. Great deal! Good luck to Mike and Tammy. Pretty soon there will be little
That’s right folks, Mike did the deed and popped the question! We’re getting married!Most people reply with “finally!” Haha. Wow, and to think of the planning that lies ahead. We’ve decided to have the wedding in September, right before harvest time.
That’s right, we had snow this morning. This crazy spring weather is making us very nervous as the vines are about to come to life. Most of California has already experienced bud-break and it sounds like Washington is on the verge. We are not far behind and below freezing temps after bud-break could be disastrous.