Here’s a fun photo of Ernie Loosen with Master Sommelier Andrea Robinson and her husband, John.
Ernie met up with them at a Safeway Elite store in Livermore, CA, where Andrea interviewed Ernie for an upcoming video series she’s doing about Riesling.
Keep a watch on Andrea’s site, www.andreawine.com, to see the vid.
Photo credit: Ken Dyleski, Safeway 1257 Wine Manager, 1554 First St., Livermore, CA 94550
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Work is proceeding apace on our joint venture with Jay Somers: J. Christopher Winery & Appassionata Vineyards in Newberg, Oregon. Ernie flew in last week to see the progress. Check out these pix. Lots more to come!
Ernst Loosen, Jay Somers and vineyard consultant, Stirling Fox, at the newly planted Appassionata Vineyard.
New Vine: The recent heavy rains have been beneficial for the newly planted vines, which are covered by grow-tubes to protect them from nibbling varmints.
The Beehive: A few oak trees were removed from prime vineyard areas. One of them had a very large beehive in it, which could be as old as 50 years. Our very resourceful excavation company (Matt Pihl Excavating) found a way to move the entire trunk of the tree to another location on the property. The hive is still thriving!
Winery Foundation: Ernie, builder Andy Scott, Jay Somers and Stirling Fox view the foundation of the new J. Christopher winery building. On June 14 the first of the pre-cast barrel caves were set in place.
Here are two articles worth reading on the Mosel Bridge that will potentially destroy some of the world’s most treasured vineyards.
Catherine Hickley, Bloomberg.com: Monster Cold-War Bridge Sparks Protests by Mosel Winemakers. Click here to read.
Hugh Johnson, The Independent: A priceless region in wine terms – but of little value to the government. Click here to read.
And here is a photo that Kirk Wille took during last week’s customer tour. This is a view from high up in Ürziger Würzgarten, across the river to the Autobahn exit under construction (the big gouge across the hillside). This is the access to the new Autobahn that dumps down into the village Lösnich. They haven’t started the actual bridge construction yet, but connecting roadwork like this is proceeding on both sides of the river.
Here are some fun pix from our tour of the Wolf Estate.
Welcome to JL Wolf: Ernie greets the group in the courtyard of the JL Wolf villa.
The Group at JL Wolf: On the front steps of the historic estate house.
In the Wachenheim Vineyards: The group poses in the vineyards of Wachenheim, with the Wachtenturm castle in the background.
Fun at dinner: Roberta Nemo and John Metz check out the line-up of wines during dinner at JL Wolf.
In Ludwig Knoll’s Vinothek: Starting the tour with our first sip of wine at Knoll. From left: Roberta Nemo, restauranteur from Atlanta; Deb Donohoe, distributor rep in Boston; Ken Winn, distributor rep from Chicago; John Hopkins, distributor sales manager from Ohio; Doug Krenik, midwest sales manager for Loosen Bros. USA.
Ludwig Knoll in the Stettener Stein vineyard: Ludwig explains how the vineyard work is done is such steep vineyards.
Lura & Matt in Stetten: Lura and Matt Elsen, from Galaxy Wine Co. in Portland, with the dramatic limestone cliffs of the Stettener Stein vineyard behind them in the distance.
View of Würzburg from Weingut am Stein: Looking over the city to the imperial Marienburg palace on the opposite hill.
