Snow at View Forever Vineyard!

It's a winter wonderland at the winery! These are a few photographs of the winter scene at View Forever Vineyard...

A winter's view

Fall color still on some of the vines even after the snow

 

 

The transition from Fall to Winter!

Bare vines and snow

 

 

 

 

Snow and a view!

 

Wine barrels under snow

 

Holiday Gift Ideas from Lucchesi Vineyards and Winery

Who is on your Christmas list this year? We have stocked the Lucchesi Tasting Room with lots of gifts to help you check off your list! There's the ever popular gift of wine of course, and lots of beautiful and even practical accessories! See a few photos here, and stop by for a glass of wine and browse the rest. Bring your list...

Wine is always a popular gift at the holidays! We have the wine you love and many new releases for you to try! Make an event of your Christmas shopping and stop by for wine tasting to personally select a wine for each person on your list!

 

Our Red Port makes a wonderful pairing for holiday desserts! It makes a great gift, or even fits in a stocking for a stocking-stuffer. You may want a few bottles for your library for the season as well.

 

We now carry Voluspa Luxury Candles! Combine art, wonderful fragrance, and elegant illumination for the perfect gift.

 

White House Goodies is a local cottage industry that offers locally grown herbs, cake mix, vinegar, seasonings, trail mix, and so much more. Made in a home kitchen in Chicago Park just outside of Grass Valley!

 

We continue to carry Sciabica's Olive Oil! You could put together a wonderful gift basket with olive oil, other food goodies, and wine.

 

We have a number of wine accessories: some beautiful, some functional, and many both functional and beautiful! We love these antique door knob wine corks!

 

Local handmade napkins/coasters by Koala T Kraft. They are colorful and unique and wrap around the bottom of your glass. Also a creative way to tell whose glass is whose at a festive gathering!

 

Stop by the Lucchesi Tasting Room at 128 Mill Street in downtown Grass Valley for wine tasting and gift shopping!

 

 

 

New Wine Releases in November

We have been busy bottling at the winery, and we've released several wonderful new wines!

Our 2012 Chardonnay is a toasty sweet spicy wine with touches of caramel, honey, and buttered toast. Tropical flavors with vanilla accents from the oak. It has a golden color, and it's deliciously exotic and satisfying.

Our 2012 Pinot Grigio has complex flavors of peach, kiwi, apricots, meyer lemon, guava, and honey. A wonderful minerality on a long vanilla finish. It's Champagne without the bubbles!

Our 2011 Syrah has flavors of jammy juicy blackberry and blueberry. Plum and vanilla on the finish. Pair with bacon wrapped dates and butternut squash!

The Masque is a red wine blend with fruity aromas of cherry crème brulee, mocha, and a hint of tobacco with a soft, fruity medium body and a jammy, nut accented finish. A nice, fruity quaffer.

Stop by our tasting room at 128 Mill Street in downtown Grass Valley and taste these new wines!

Fall at Lucchesi

October is a wonderful month at Lucchesi! After weeks of picking grapes for many hours every day, we finished picking last week! The harvest produced great yields and excellent quality, and we look forward to putting it in the bottle! We had a great time celebrating at our Harvest Party this weekend.

The vineyard is ablaze with Fall colors! Come explore the vineyards and be struck with brilliant color on every row!


Fall beauty at View Forever Vineyard

 

Fall color on the Zinfandel vines at Lucchesi

 

Grape picking contest at our Harvest Party

Happy grape pickers when they finished their row during the grape picking contest!

Fall vineyards

 

2013 Sunsets at Lucchesi Vineyards and Winery

Here 's a quick collection of some of our sunset skies during events at the winery this Summer. We love where we live and work!

Harvesting Syrah Grapes Today!

Today we kicked off the 2013 harvest season at View Forever Vineyard by picking Syrah grapes, which get the most sun exposure in our vineyards.

It was a perfect weather day for picking, because it was cool and overcast. The grapes were nice and cool, so we picked for many hours! Here are a few photos from the picking and the initial processing of the grapes:



Syrah Grapes on the Vine

Picking Syrah Grapes

Syrah Grapes

Processing Syrah Grapes

Processing Syrah Grapes

Sunset Soiree this Saturday, August 17, 2013!

Have you been to our vineyard to enjoy the mountain and vineyard views from our peaceful hilltop? There's no better way to take in the scene than to come to one of our Sunset Soiree events!



A beautiful evening with lovely music in the background, the colors of the sky ever changing, and excellent wine and food!

This Saturday, August 17th, at 7:00pm is our next Sunset Soiree! We're serving local grass fed tri-tip, BBQ beans, a green salad, cornbread, and a decadent dessert! It will be catered by Mountain Chef Catering.

The Mountain Laurel Duet, Pete Siegfried and Kathy Barwick, will bring us folk and bluegrass music. You can hear a sample of their music on the Videos page of Kathy Barwick's website.

Please reserve by Thursday at noon! You can reserve online or call us at 530-274-2164.

 

$6 Glass of wine

$23 Dinner with a glass of wine

$6 Dessert

 

Additional wine will be available at the event by the glass or bottle.

 

 

Nature Notes Road Trip Style

Nature notes road trip style, from our winemaker Matt Wentz!

I recently made a day trip down south to see the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in the Inyo National Forest.

These trees, the Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva), are some of the oldest organisms on earth.  In fact, one of the trees is the oldest documented living thing on earth.

As of this year there was a tree that has been dated at 5063 years old (found last year), and the tree named Methuselah that is 4844 years old.  The exact identity of each tree is not disclosed, to prevent vandalism or other damage to the trees.  But on the hike you get to go through the grove that has many 4000+ year old trees.

The trip is definitely one to make, however it is not for the faint of heart (literally).  I left my home in Grass Valley at 5:45 am and headed towards my destination in Inyo County, a short 6 hours away.  For the round trip it is 15 hours and 606 miles.  This trip would see me start at 2200 ft and end at 10500 ft.  It is a drive worth taking, however I recommend that you make it a weekend trip, not a day trip like I did.  Without some time to acclimate to the high elevations where the Bristlecones are found, the hike was moderately difficult for me, and may not be advisable for people with heart or lung conditions.  No special equipment is needed, other than a back pack, water and a vehicle to get to the trail head.  The road is paved the whole way, and even low clearance cars can make it.

I leave you with a picture of one of the Bristlecones.
Matt Wentz, Winemaker

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