Argyle Winery

Bottling the 2008 Argyle Brut Rosé

Posted on July 27, 2009

Here’s a quick video clip of the various stages of bottling our 2008 Argyle Brut Rosé.

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From grapes to glass…

Posted on January 28, 2009

Fun wine facts:

One ton of grapes yields about 60 cases of wine.
Each 750ml bottle of wine contains the juice of approximately 1,389 grapes!
The average sip of wine contains the juice of 28 grapes.
 



Argyle Winery slide show

Posted on November 7, 2008

If you’ve stopped by our Tasting Room since the end of October, you may have noticed the new flat panel LCD TV on the wall. We’ve got a nice slide show showing each of our vineyards, how we manage vines, grape growth, harvest and wine making. You can see the same slide show here.

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Cheers!



Punchdown at Argyle Winery

Posted on October 27, 2008

Here are a few photos of Argyle’s Pinot Noir grapes during the punchdown stage of winemaking. The first image is a close-up of Pinot Noir fermenting in 1.6 ton bins.

Here you can see the ruby/blood red juices mixed with the grape skins.

This is punchdown, where hard physical labor effects a gentle mixing of grape juice and skins for enhanced flavors and rich color. Punchdown happens several times each day for 4 or more weeks. Approximately 200 bins are punched down each day.

For math geeks, this can be represented as approx. 200 bins x 1.6 tons = roughly 320 tons of grapes. That’s 640,000 pounds of delicious fermenting Pinot Noir!



Helping Preserve the Environment One Case at a Time

Posted on July 16, 2008

Argyle is very committed to preserving the environment in any way it can. We’re certified Salmon Safe, we use bio-diesel in our tractors, etc.

Our supplier for wine shipping boxes and inserts (West Coast Paper Co.) recently announced the happy news that their “Vintner’s Choice” pulp wine trays (used in shipping Argyle wines) have been recognized by the Scientific Certification Systems as meeting their stringent requirements of being at least 97% recycled content.

As an added bonus, these wine shippers are 100% made in Oregon… pulped in Corvallis using recycled newspaper from Eugene’s Register-Guard newspaper. Excellent job, West Coast Paper!



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