F.H. Steinbart Co. Wine Blog

Get those wines in! (Competitions)

fhsteinbartco — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:13:13 +0000

2012 Winemaker magazine wine competition.

Wines are due in Vermont by March 16th so start getting those double gold and showstopper wines ready. For more information, and shipping address click on link above.

A few competitions that are coming up later in the year that you might want to keep in mind are:

American Wine Society

Their amateur competition is coming up in November, and their annual conference (which happens to coincide with the competition) will be held in Portland this year! Sounds like fun to me.

Oregon State Fair

This competition comes up in July. Not much info. up for it yet but keep checking back to their website. They will post it eventually.

(Image courtesy of the American Wine Society)

It’s getting to be competition time!

fhsteinbartco — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:16:20 +0000

Hey everybody, competitions are beginning for the 2012 year! Coming up quickly is the Newport seafood and wine fest.

We are a drop off point for this years competition but your entries need to be in to us by January 18th.

You can find the rules and entry forms either here in the store or on their website here

http://www.newportchamber.org/sw_amateur_competition.htm

Oregon harvest

fhsteinbartco — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:16:21 +0000

It looks like last weekend was when a lot of harvesting was going on here in the Willamette valley. I hope you all found the grapes you were looking for. There are a couple of vineyards that we have heard from that will be picking sometime this week if you are still looking but you are running out of time quickly! The grapes from one vineyard we hard from is just over 21° brix and 3.36 pH. Pretty normal from what I have been hearing for this year.

For those who are cold soaking or fermenting, I hope everything is going smoothly for you. (tip: if your must starts smelling like sulfur, eggs, or rotten eggs take action immediately! It will only get worse without intervention)

As things move along, stop in, let us know how they are going.

-Josh

And the winner is…

fhsteinbartco — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:52:41 +0000

We have a winner of the Brehm frozen must or juice. The winner is Tim Czuk, Congratulations! Ultimately all of you are winners because we send out email only deals so all of you will get a chance to get some sweet stuff.

I hope all of your winemaking is going well.

-Josh

Harvest is over? Not even close!

fhsteinbartco — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:35:54 +0000

I was talking with some people around the shop the other day and they where saying that in their opinion harvest was pretty much over for the year. Well I hope you all are in the same boat as me when I say that it hasn’t even begun.

I’m leaving Thursday morning to drive to Walla Walla and pick up my Syrah, and the Cab. Sauv. is still hanging trying for all it’s worth to ripen. It will be one more trip to get that goodness. It is most assuredly a late late year for everybody, but the grapes are slowly coming in.

Let me know how your harvest is going. Do you still have grapes you need to get? Have they come in already? What are you making? I want to hear what other winemakers are doing this year.

-Josh

Harvest 2011

fhsteinbartco — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:46:42 +0000

Well, since harvest is underway in Washington, and we received our first shipment of Merlot a few weeks ago so I thought I would share a few pics of the fun we have had crushing and fermenting. Our last shipment of grapes is coming in this weekend, It was a good time crushing with all of you and we hope to see you again next year. (I just received word that we can no longer get any Syrah. Everything is sold for the year.)

Want Syrah?

fhsteinbartco — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:10:21 +0000

If anybody is still in search of Syrah for the 2011 season, I just talked to our grower and he has more! About 1000 lbs more! Right?? If you are want some contact us (503)232-8793 to get it ordered. I have a feeling it’s going to go fast so don’t miss out. It will be delivered 10/16 or 10/23 (both dates, depends on what is ripe when). It’s coming quick so do it….now…or else.

Win free juice/must!

fhsteinbartco — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:51:20 +0000

Have you been curious about the Brehm frozen juice and frozen must? Well, here is your chance to get a bucket and try it out…for FREE! Oh yeah, I said it, free.

Sign up for our F.H. Steinbart Co. wine e-mail list and your name will be put in to a drawing to win a free 5 gallon bucket of Brehm frozen product. The winner will be notified by email and gets his or her choice of frozen Chardonnay juice or frozen Pinot Noir must from Brehms personal Columbia Gorge vineyard.

Little disclaimer:

If you win the contest and need to ship the juice/must, you need to pay for shipping charges. Remember this stuff is frozen and needs to stay that way. The contest will run from 09/21/11 to 10/22/11. The winner will be chosen and notified the following week. No purchase necessary, purchasing will not increase your chance of winning.

The e-mails are packed with what’s going on at Steinbarts in the wine area. Don’t care about brewing? Good! because you won’t get any brewing info, only wine. We also promise not to send you annoying emails daily, or even weekly. It’s more like monthly, unless we have breaking news we feel you should know about, or an amazing give-away you should be a part of.

Grapes are ripening…’bout time!

fhsteinbartco — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:43:42 +0000

We are super sphyched about the coming weeks. The Merlot we’ve ordered is on it’s way! This Sunday will be pick-up time (for those of you who have pre-ordered, you know who you are) and we are still taking orders because it will be available for the next couple of weeks. 1500 lbs are available and our grower is letting us take reservations for more until about the first week of October.

We also have 100 lbs of Syrah left. The Syrah will probably start coming in around the 9th of October and will continue for the week or two after.

If you want grapes call or stop in quickly as harvest is now moving along nicely and won’t slow down for anybody.

We look forward to seeing all of you winemakers out there!

Class cancelled, sorry all.

fhsteinbartco — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:54:44 +0000

Well, It is Thursday and we have not had enough people signed up for the Winemaking class so It has been cancelled. Sorry if you were signed up and looking forward to it.