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 Salve,
Welcome to 2012!
We hope everyone had an enjoyable holiday season full of friends, family, food and of course great wine.
As winter closes in and new year's resolutions take hold we are taking time to look back at 2011.
2011 was a very exciting and rewarding year for LaStella. From a business perspective many things went right and we approach 2012 on a high. In the vineyard several of our vineyards planted in years past are finally producing fruit and around nine new acres were planted at the vineyard we call Selona across the street from the LaStella winery. In the winery 2011 has been a very good harvest and we look forward to showing you the white wines this year, and the reds in years to follow.
In this issue:
- James wraps up 2011 in our message from the winemaker,
- statistics from our 2011 vintage harvest,
- a busy winter season of events is ahead of us,
- and lastly a quick summary of some of the terrific charities we supported in 2011.
Lastly a shout-out, kudos and thanks to our friends at Fraiche Restaurant in West Vancouver and chef Alvarez for the dinner they put on last night with some of our wines. From start to finish it was an experience to delight all the senses. We've posted a few pictures of the evening on our Facebook page.
As always, we wish you happy drinking!
Ciao!
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Our Winery Team Catches their Breath
Mercifully after six to eight weeks of incredibly intense 15 hour days the sprint slows to a nice walking pace as Christmas approaches. The wines now have to be stabilized or put through malolactic fermentation. Reds have been put into barrels for their slow maturation process and decisions turn to blends, single vineyard designations, bottling for spring releases, and monitoring of 2010 reds.
dusted we can lay out our harvest statistics for 2011. The good news is that there is a little more Moscato D'Osoyoos this year so perhaps it will last past July 15th before it sells out. 
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