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12/28/2019

Thought I would share a few pictures from our wine tasting event at Fishers Fine Jewelers in Albert Lea, MN. Every dollar received that night is donated to Dr. Shaji Kumar's Multiple Myeloma cancer research at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.

12/28/2019

We recently finished bottling the last of our 2018 white wines. This Edelweiss wine is sweet and fruity tasting. I decided to feature it in our wine tasting even at Fisher Jewelers in Albert Lea, MN.

07/01/2019

The power outage here in LeRoy definitely put a dent in my plans to bottle wine yesterday. Using an oil lamp let me get as far as sanitizing some bottles. We hope to try again to bottle some Frontenac 2018.

10/21/2018

I just finished making a dozen wine bottle lights for wine baskets to donate to fund raisers for cancer benefits, schools, churches etc. This entails drilling holes in the bottles, threading a string of lights into each bottle, corking, shrinking a foil top, cleaning the bottle and finally adding a label to each.

10/14/2018

10/14/2018

Not even our owls like this snow. Hopefully, it warms enough to trim the vines in November.

10/14/2018

A very tired looking Jiggy (Brian) Jasper volunteering to help out after a long day of work building bridges in Worthington, MN. He loves extracting the last juice out of the grapes while working the Italian wine press. Two more batches and we are finished with the Fall harvesting/fermenting part.

10/04/2018

So, we just got back from a road trip to St. Ansgar, IA. We found a gentleman that makes craft items from wine corks. Lee Cowell has agreed to make hot pads for our wine baskets. Quite a man for 91 years old! He welcomed a few hundred "real" corks that we brought him. He is looking for another 125 synthetic corks to finish the roof on a 39 1/2 in church he is making. If anyone has any of these, please save them for me and I will take them down to him. This is a photo of a photo of one on display at the St. Ansgar Art Gallery. Picture quality is not great, but you can see his details.