United Way Fundraiser This Sunday

There's still room left for Sunday night's United Way fundraising dinner at The Woodlawn. The evening starts out with hors d'oeuvres fabulous cocktails, then sit down to a gourmet dinner and the Flat Rock Pinot Noir & Closson Chase Chardonnay will be flowing. All for $75.00 per person. Call us at 905 372-2235 or 1 800 573-5003 to book your table.

The 2009 Harvest at the Norman Hardie Winery

Norman Hardie Harvest 2009
Jennifer, Sophia and myself had a terrific day helping Norman Hardie with his harvest on Sunday. We arrived at the winery at 10:00 am and were put to work right away. We started the day tying back vine netting and then we mo...ved on to picking Pinot Noir grapes. The grapes were in perfect condition bursting with juice and showing lots of sugar and a really deep colour. The picking was very easy with no berry-rot or bird bites on the bunches. There were so few quality issues that Norm decided not to use a sorting table and just take the whole bunches right to the crusher/de-stemmer. I can't wait to try the wine which will show up in his County Pint Noir 2009 and Cuvee L Pinot Noir 2009.

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