Grapevines Sleeping Sweetly

Harvest is over and the weather has been cooperative so that our vines have safely gone to sleep, to rest and get ready for the next growing season. Our vineyard guys have been busy getting all the harvest paraphernalia put away for another year.

While the leaves where still green on our vines this fall, they where sending valuable carbohydrates into the woody trunk and roots as fuel to get the vines through the quiet winter months. This reserve is essential to keep the vines fed until they wake from their winter sleep and send leaves out to allow photosynthesis to generate the spring growth to begin another year.

Sleep well, little vines and we’ll see you mid-winter for a bit of trimming.

Vineyard Update – November 2021

Vineyard Update

In the vineyards, we have our crews working to prep the vineyards for winter. This means planting our cover crop, taking down any bird nets left from harvest, and checking (and if necessary) repairing the trellis wire to be ready for the pre-pruning machine in January. Plus any other last minute cleanup that we need to finish before the snow flies.

Our crews have worked hard this year, putting in long hours to get all the work done before the freezing temps move in to put the vines to sleep for another year.

Cheers!

Mike & Patrick Williamson
The Vineyard Guys

Christmas 2021 Case Sale

Christmas Case Sale

Giving a bottle of wine from your local winery is a perfect gift for so many people and occasions around the holidays. So get in on our annual Christmas Case Sale!

Make your holidays merry when you build a case of your favorite wines at 20% off!
Wine Club members save 30% off their cases!

This promotion is valid 11/26/2021 – 12/12/2021.

As an added bonus for your gift giving, we offer local delivery for purchases of 6 bottles or more.
Our delivery range includes Boise, Garden City, Star, Eagle, Meridian, Middleton, Caldwell, Nampa, Kuna, Homedale and Marsing. If you are outside of these towns, get ahold of us (208.459.7333 or email) and we’ll see what we can do. Please keep in mind that someone over 21 years of age must receive the wine. Idaho State Police will not allow us to leave unattended alcohol on your doorstep.

We can ship too! Check with us to verify which states are available to us.

“Wine Club only” wine limitations still apply. Excludes – Library wines.
No other discounts apply.

New Wine Releases!

We’ve got some tasty wines back on the shelves!

2020 Dry Riesling –  A clear, bright, pale straw colored wine, this is beautiful in the glass. Aromas of minerality and jasmine at first whiff, it completes with sweet notes of pear and lychee. This silky wine has  flavors of pineapple and peach milkshake, and harbors hints of slate on the mid-palate and finishes with floral notes.

2019 Homestead Red (Wine Club Only) – 66% Cabernet, 34% Syrah
A deep opaque garnet with blue undertones, this wine promises a lush mouthful. Dark cherry and baked berry crisp leads on the nose with hints of bramble and wet slate. Plummy cherry preserves explode this big fruity wine onto the palate, and is balanced with bright acid and firm tannins. This is a chewy wine with a long finish.

2019 Petite Sirah (Wine Club Only) – Gorgeous ruby tones and opaque in the glass, the aromas of raspberry, blueberry, prune are balanced with a light dusting of white pepper and earthiness tease the nose. Firm tannins are balanced with a medium astringency creating a soft mouth feel. Flavors of raspberry and cherry jello, are balanced  with hints of pistachio and white pepper on  the palate end with a long finish of earth and blackberry jam and seed.

Click here to for more information and pricing.

Wine club members, please remember to  sign into your account in the webstore to see wine club only wines and receive your special pricing.

What Effect Could Smoke Have On Idaho Wine 2021?

The Idaho Wine Commission wrote an intriguing piece on smoke in Idaho vineyards for their blog. They sat down with Mike Williamson to find out about how smoke can be helpful and detrimental for Idaho grape growers. Read it here: Are Idaho grapes going up in smoke?

Idaho Wine Competition 2021

Bringing in the Gold

Both the 2020 Albariño and 2019 Malbec received Gold Medals at the Idaho Wine Competition on August 17, 2021. It’s always great to be included in the best that Idaho wines have to offer. The Albariño and Malbec are available for purchase in the tasting room. The 2020 Viognier is available to our wine club members and we expect to release the 2019 Petite Sirah in October.

2020 Viognier received a Silver Medal
2019 Petite Sirah received a Bronze Medal

Head over to our webstore for more information and to make purchases!

Summer Sipping Six Pack

August 4 thru August 22

Choose from a choice selection of our white wines to make a custom six pack of your favorite summer sipping wines.

Any combination of the 2020 Dry Rosé, 2020 Albariño, 2019 Viognier, 2018 Lilly White, 2019 Dry Riesling, and the 2019 Nectar gets you this special discount pricing.

General public – 15% off

Wine Club – 20% off

Visit our webstore and create your own favorite Summer Sipping Six Pack.

Idaho’s wine industry builds on its success

Brad Carlson of the Capital Press headed out to the Sunnyslope region to talk with grape growers about how the vineyard plantings have been increasing in acreage. Even with production steadily increasing since the 1990’s, Idaho still experiences more demand for Idaho grown grapes than supply. See what different growers had to say about the increasing quantity and quality of Idaho grapes.

Read the full article here: Way to Grow, Idaho wine industry

Virtual Happy Hour – July 8

Patrick and Teresa taste through our newest white wine releases. Check out the video where they talk about everything from the vines, to the 2020 weather and growing season to tasting notes on the 2020 Riesling, 2020 Viognier, 2020 Dry Rosé, and 2020 Albariño.  Grab a glass of your favorite and enjoy.

Williamson Vineyards talks about 112 years of family farming

Lynsey Amundson of Idaho 6 News sat down with Beverly and asked about the family’s 112 year history of growing fruit and farming in the Sunnyslope area of Caldwell. Check out the video  and article here: After four generations, Williamson Orchards and Vineyards now handcrafting award-winning wine