Harvest

We harvested the Marechal Foch vineyard last Saturday.  Tomorrow the Petite Amie will be harvested and this coming Saturday we'll harvest the LaCrosse.  The crops are small this year because of the damage from the snow, hail and too much rain.  This has been the worst year for weather we've had in 27 years of growing grapes.

We'll be bottling some of the 2010 wines around Thanksgiving.

We had our last concert of the year in August.  The Kris Lager Band was great and we had a lot of fun.

I made a quick trip to Kansas City a week ago.  My Mom and her husband Ted were up from TX visiting. I have two sisters who live in KC and Leavenworth and my nephew Quinton from Leavenworth was just diagnosed with Acute Lyphoblastic Leukemia June 22nd.  He's on a new cocktail of chemo and meds and has put on some weight and is looking better.  We pray we get a good report around December or January. If so, they'll consider him in "remission" and he'll be on chemo for another 3 years.

Ed has been ultra busy as usual in the vineyards and now processing grapes and making the wine, so he's not able to go too far away.

You may see a new face at Cuthills Vineyards every so often.  This year Beth Noelle Sindelar (she goes by Beth or Noelle) from Pierce has been working the tasting room when I need to be gone and has been a tremendous help.  Noelle knows a lot about Cuthills Vineyards wines and wines in general.  She will also be taking classes towards becoming a certified sommelier.