Anniversary and Jensen Private Reserve weekend

Some of our Zinfindel grapes

View of the main channel with snow in the backgroung.

This weekend Cherie and I celebrated our anniversary and also opened up the first bottle of our wine. We have been growing Zinfindel grapes on our property for about 5 years and we finally got to make some wine. It was a messy and learning experience. The process was fun and a little frustrating at times but I learned a lot and will make better wines in the future. I had opened a few half bottles for tasting but this was the first full bottle. We were joined by our great neighbors Steve and Judy(they are getting ready to start planting vines on there property up north). They had an interest in what I was doing so I was glad we got to share the first bottle with them. The good news on the wine was that we gave it a score of 94 the bad news was it was on a scale of 1-200. It was OK, not bad not great but it did get better as the night went on and we had a good time discussing what could have made it better. We also got to go to the new Smokey's BBQ on the water and have a great dinner. Sunday we had a great boat ride and wished we had gone out on the Seadoo's. It was great Anniversary weekend.