Wind River Cellars

Thank you to everyone who has sent thoughts and prayers to official WRC pig, Minnie. As many of you know, Minnie was mauled by a visitor's dog who evidently enjoys the delicious flavor of pork. It was tense for a few days but Minnie is slowly recovering. She's now missing an ear but is still the most beautiful animal on the planet.

I managed to pack a lifetime of fun into the past two weeks. The Wind River Cellars Golf Scramble was a blast. 18 teams battled for the WRC Cup but in the end it went to four talented and attractive gentlemen. If you ever want to win a golf competition I suggest you host your own event.

Golf Scramble MC, Josh shelled out dozens of great prizes and then stuck around for another week to tie the knot with fiance, Michelle. The week was right up there with WRC Holiday in Mexico as far as fun goes. (By the way, email us for details on this year's WRC Holiday in Mexico if you are interested in attending.) Josh and Michelle hosted history's longest wedding. It kind of reminded me of my week long birthday. I'm sure glad it was here at the winery. Seven days and seven nights of wedding festivities would have been tough without the comfort of my own bed. It was a pleasure meeting all of Josh and Michelle's friends and family.

So how do you cap off two weeks of non-stop fun? You fly in 200 lbs of Louisiana crawfish and host an authentic Louisiana crawfish boil. This event was an experimental success. We will be hosting next year's Husum Crawfish Rodeo in June. Check in for details. Below you will find a few photos from the event, including oldest son, Hollywood's money earning dare. This event has potential to rival chili cook-off and Fondue in February.

No, I still haven't fixed the destemmer/crusher that broke on the last cluster of grapes last harvest. I have about 6 weeks to get that taken care of before harvest begins. The grapes are about 10 days behind normal but they are looking good.

Several groups have called ahead to schedule barrel tastings. This is a great time of the year to do it because the older vintages are ready to bottle and the 2007 vintage wines are emerging from puberty and beginning to taste fantastic. Let me know.

The fire on Mt. Adams is nearly 100% contained. Though it never posed a threat to the Husum community, it had potential to destroy the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. Thanks, fire fighting people.

Plenty of Summer left for rafting and wine tasting. Come out to Husum before it passes you by.

Have a Husum day, Husum!

Joel

200 pounds of live Louisiana Crawfish

1st Ever Wind River Cellars Crawfish Rodeo

Tough way to make 35 bucks!

Here's what's going on this weekend:

*Wind River Cellars Golf Scramble
*Nights in White Salmon Wine Walk
*Trout Lake Arts Festival
*Gorge Games
*Employee of the Month Runner-up, Ryan will be serving wine in the nude in the tasting room.
*Josh will be here.

For those of you that haven't read this piece of crap blog until lately, Josh is the guy that stopped by the tasting room about a year ago and didn't leave for a week. He's become one of our best friends and he and his fiance will be getting married here next week.

I'm not much of a rubber necker but if I were I would be in Trout Lake (12 miles north of us) right now to observe the forest fire activity. I thought about loading the SUV with wine and going out there to give the firefighters a treat but today when I was picking up Poison Rose (youngest son) at Summer camp, I noticed thousands of tents. They don't need wine. They need showers.

I wish I could personally thank each one of those people working on the fire. Since I can't I'll offer them an additional discount on wine. Isn't that my civic duty?

You've got a busy weekend coming up, Husum!

Joel

Sorry I haven't blogged lately. I've been trying to put out this damn fire in my back yard.