Lauterbach Cellars joins 4 Neighboring wineries for the Lights Of Olivet

Join Lauterbach Cellars for an open House at DeLoach, Harvest Moon, Hook & Ladder, and Tara Bella Wineries. Food, crafts, music but best of all great discounts on WINE for your holiday shopping. Visit all 5 wineries for a festive holiday experience. At Lauterbach Cellars we will be featuring meat balls, Bell Wether Farm cheeses, and chocolate truffles to go with our dessert wines. We will , of course, be pouring our favorite wines. Take…
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Wine Bottling Party.

Two or three times a year have a wine bottling party.   We have two bottling days coming up, our 2016 Syrah and our 2017 Rosé.  This event is a party where we and a number of friends get together for the day, set up our line of 4 stations with 6 people and go at it. The first step is the filler.  This is a beautiful antique device that gravity feeds the bottles.  We maintain…
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Tubbs Fire recovery

[caption id="attachment_468" align="alignright" width="249"] First view of our house[/caption] As many of our winery friends and fans know we lost our home and almost lost our lives in the Tubbs Fire one year ago today.  Our home was about 6 miles from the Lauterbach Cellars.  We escaped to the winery where we stored our RV.  The next day a dear friend offered us his RV so Barb and I had a home and our 21…
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Grape Crush, a Winery’s Right of Passage

Nothing affects wineries more than the weather.   At this time of the year that means the Grape Crush. Grape Crush is an annual right of passage, the date which cannot be scheduled, but must be planned.  We usually have 3 to 4 days warning, and It happens fast.  At Lauterbach Cellars the Harvest happened last Saturday, September 29, 2018.     Harvest:   The crew started early, last Saturday at about 6:20 AM.  We harvested…
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Natural Pest Control with Owls and Raptors

  Two of the inevitable problems in vineyards are Rodents and Birds. A:  Owls and Rodents Rodents burrow in the ground and eat the roots of the vines.  Every year we lose vines to the moles and voles.  Barn Owls usually consume about 6 voles or vole-sized rodents per night, about 1/3 of their total body weight in food consumption.  That’s some 4,000 rodents a year, what a yummy diet. We also move a perch…
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Wine and Food Affair a wine country culinary tour

The Wine and Food Affair is a culinary tour of the wine country, which is our favorite event of the year.  This event, coordinated by the Wine Road is an annual event the first weekend of November, featuring over 100 wineries .  Each winery opens their doors, pairing one of their favorite wines with a tapas plate of food.  It has become somewhat of a “one upmanship” between the wineries, tempting your palate with a perfect pairing and melding…
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Join Us at the Taste of Olivet

We will be participating in the Taste of Olivet on April 14, 2018 serving Bacon Brownies with our Syrah Dessert Wine (aka Port).  Come join us for a fabulous time!  Get your Tickets here.
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A Rouge Sparkling

Every year we thin the fruit on the vines right after veraison to balance the foliage with the fruit. That fruit is then dropped on the ground and wasted. In 2015 we waited about a week after the Pinot went thru veraison and then collected that fruit at about 17.7 brix instead of wasting it. It was then punched down thru fermentation till dry (10.2% alcohol). It now has a rouge color darker than a…
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