
Canelo Hills Vineyard and Winery Happy Thanksgiving everyone! The Canelo Hills crew has much to be thankful for including getting to share our dinner together this evening.

Tim and I just returned from the Festival at the Farm at South Mountain in Phoenix. It was an exciting experience to be part of the largest gathering of AZ grape growers and wine makers ever...

What a crew. Nicole, Matt, Caleb and Frank joined Joan and me to form our first ever 6 person bottling line. It took 40-50 cases for everyone to find their natural place, work out the kinks and finally listen to Matt who is a whiz at system's engineering...

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Stephanie and Shawn Brody were our first visitors Sunday and therefore, the first to try our Sparkling wines for this year. They were among the many new friends of our winery we saw this week-end. It was nice to see returning faces as well...

Actually, there were two winners from our Facebook posting as well as Bob from the blog posting. Since this is the last 2009 quiz all three winners will receive their free tasting coupon. Congratulations to you all!Those of you who guessed fermenting juice were close...

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Here's your last chance to win a free tasting coupon in 2009. Who knows, maybe next year we'll change the rules so start guessing what this is a photo of. The correct guesses will all go into a hat and a winner drawn. Maybe we'll even select two winners as an end of year treat!

The Arizona Wine Growers Assoc. has an exciting, fun filled day planned for all on November 22. Winemakers from all over the state will gather to pour their wines and you will get to be a judge! There will be music, lunch, seminars...

. . . . that's someone who only eats food that is locally grown - technically within a 100 mile radius...

Emma is guarding the soon-to-be released Sparkling Rose'. She isn't sure she wants to part with it any time soon. But in a couple of weeks she will have to. After all, the holidays are almost here!

You can tell my vineyard work for the season has slowed to a crawl as I am now following Tim around with my camera trained on him and his tasks. Here are some photos I took while he was disgorging the sparkling wine on Saturday. I'm sure he will be glad when I get back to work but I am having fun.

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Tim disgorged our sparkling wines Saturday and they'll be ready and for sale soon! Watch our YouTube video on the process: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MetGp4Q6d G0
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Our Winemaker, Tim, is interviewed by daughter and Marketing Director Kathryn about how he made our sparkling wines. The sparkling wine-making process, or Méthode Champenoise, is labor-intensive and fascinating.


















