Bluebird Hill Cellars

The summer has wound down, all of our 2016 wines have been put to bed for their winter slumber and we are now looking forward to two great weekends of wine tasting at the winery! Since opening over the Memorial Day Weekend in May, we’ve had the pleasure of hosting an incredible group of visitors, traveling from both nearby and distant locales to meet us and taste our wines. We’re extremely grateful for the turnout at the winery during our tasting room hours this summer. It

I’m sitting here with a wonderful glass of Rosé in the late afternoon of what has been a spectacular weather day. When people talk about Indian summer, this is it: temps in the high 70s, full sun, beautiful blue sky, and just a little bit of a soft breeze now and then. A great time to collect our thoughts on the 2016 harvest; we’ve processed almost six tons of fruit so far (Pinot noir and Pinot gris), and are expecting to bring in another three to four tons of white wine gr

W e’re in the midst of the most exciting, most frantic time of the year, we are at HARVEST!! The Bluebird Hill Estate fruit is in, we picked our first Pinot gris grapes ever early last week, and a half-ton of Pinot noir at the end of last week. Fruit has been looking really good, with no evidence of any fungal pressure and thankfully, no visits from flocks of birds or other fruit stealers!! Fruit is coming in this week and next from our vineyard partners and everyone is re

I’m not sure if the grapes hanging on the vine call this the ‘dog days of summer’, because I can almost hear some of those clusters talking to me, saying ‘Mmmm Mmmm Good’ in response to this stretch of sunny, warm weather we are in the middle of! We’ve had a whole string of days with high temperatures in the mid-90s, and nice cooling overnight, we typically wind up with early morning temperatures in the high 50’s, so the grapes are nice and cool every morning in anticipation

Sunday July 10: I’m sitting here in the wine tasting room contemplating rare summer weather: rain and clouds! More typical of March than July, we had a weather front travel through overnight and perhaps we had the good part of an inch of rain. Maybe good for the grapevines, but we’ll have to keep an eye out for mildew-related problems that can be associated with wet weather. So far, everything looks great out in the vineyard, and hard to believe how great our young vines

We’re gearing up for the sunny summer weather and have two events we want you to consider yourself invited to! Sunday June 26th will be a special after-hours event to mingle with friends of the winery and our winemaker, Bobby Moy. The event will be held from 5:00 – 8:00 pm and will feature a catered hors d’oeuvres buffet and six pours of your choice of Bluebird Hill Cellars wine to pair with the food. Menu details can be found here. Talk wine with Bobby, Sue, and Neil and

With a sigh of relief and a feeling of gratitude, we can sit back, breathe deep and relax for a moment to reflect on our opening, held Memorial Day Weekend, May 27-30. Each day, we welcomed a lot of great people, some old friends and some new friends as well. We’re grateful for our sister wineries in Monroe, Sweet Earth and Tebri Vineyards, for suggesting to some of their guests to take the drive up into Alpine to come visit us. Bluebird Hill, Sweet Earth, Tebri, and Broad