De-barrel, blend...
In February Beltane Ranch Sauvignon Blanc was de-barreled and blended in stainless steel tanks to be fined and cold-stabilized prior to bottling. T  his was our first opportunity to taste the final blend from the new and neutral oak barrels and.......it is exceptional. Bright, lively, crisp and complex. Luckily, beyond our biased opinions, we've received outstanding responses from our wine-making team and a few expert friends of the ranch.
G lass, Labels, Corks, Capsules...
After months or even years of agonizing over packaging decisions, all the components are finally in place! Alexa and Alex show off our first bag of real corks, fire-branded with our Beltane tree logo and our inaugural vintage year "2009." Our labels are printed and embossed featuring Dennis Ziemienski's painting of the ranch house. The domestic glass bottles and tin capsules were all ready to go down the bottling line this morning.
.....Bottling! 
3/5/2010 At 9:00 am sharp the first empty bottle began its venture down the bottling line. Only 125 minutes later all 5,376 bottles were filled, corked, capsuled, labeled and placed upside down in cases to bottle-age until release
.   Release info....
In just a few weeks we'll be releasing it to wine club members first. We'll let you know as soon as we have the the official release date - we can't wait for you to taste it!
Thank you!
Beltane Ranch
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