Vino Vernacular Troon Vineyard
December 2009
Volume 3, Issue 12
Free Shipping & Holiday Parties! Although we offer free case shipping on orders placed on the website year round...In the month of December we are excited to drop the minimum order to just six bottles!
We would like to relieve some of the pressure of getting everyone you love that special gift. For the month of December we invite you to hop on our website and mix and match six of your favorite Troon Vineyard wines. Just let us know who to send it to and we do it for FREE! With the busy holiday shipping season, don’t wait to place your order. Order early to ensure delivery by the holidays!
Planning a Holiday Party?
Free shipping & Holiday Parties
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VinoLab Holiday Parties Available!
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Call or email Liz to book your Holiday VinoLab Party today! Only $20 per person for a tasting flight of 5 wines, each paired with a one bite appetizer at Troon Vineyard! No host bars also available. A minimum of 50 people required, dates & times are limited so hurry and call now! We have some truly unique and fun events in store for you in 2010, so check out our website and come visit soon! For those of you who come out and play often, stay connected with Team Troon on Facebook, Twitter or subscribe to our blog! http://troonvineyard.posterous.com/
Tr o o n V i n e y a r d Fo c u s e s o n S u s t a i n a b i l i t y Part of our mission statement at Troon Vineyard is Environmental Stewardship. For us this includes farming in a way that respects our land, our community and our planet. We believe this is the right thing to do for the environment, but it is also a key component of what it takes to make world-class wine. It is easy to say that we are being good environmental stewards, but we wanted to take it one step farther and codify our commitment. We decided to enroll in a program that would formally certify Troon Vineyard as good environmental stewards. There are three different programs to certify vineyards: biodynamic, organic or sustainable. All three programs have similar goals – to tread lightly on the land, to put back into the land as much as you take from it, to limit inputs to only what is necessary, and to see the farm as a complete ecological system. Each of the three programs has a set of national or international standards
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and third-party organizations that certify compliance. We at Troon evaluated all three options – sustainable, organic and biodynamic – and determined that sustainable best fit our site, our goals, and our view of how best to achieve our mission.
formally certified as sustainable. We are already working hard on our plans for 2010 to ensure we pass next year’s inspection to gain full certification for our vineyard.
Beyond our efforts in the vineyard, we can take this one step The process to be certified farther. LIVE also has a program to sustainable takes a significant certify wineries as sustainable. This commitment. It takes two full years of program looks at the inputs needed to farming under international standards, make wine, carbon footprints, as well extensive documentation, and annual as grape sources. When a winery inspections to ensure that our practices achieves sustainable status and uses meet all requirements. These grapes from a certified vineyard, the requirements include things like water resulting wine can be labeled as use, spray programs, machine “Oregon Certified Sustainable Wine.” maintenance and biodiversity. They also This designation signifies wines that include broader goals like worker health are made from grape to bottle in a and safety and being Salmon-Safe in how way that puts environmental we treat any wetlands and streams on stewardship at the fore. Here at Troon we will be putting our winery the farm. into the sustainable program in 2010. We are partnering with Low The winery certification program is a Input Viticulture and Enology (LIVE), a one-year program, so our goal (and non-profit organization that certifies expectation) is that we will be certified vineyards and wineries as sustainable. as a sustainable winery for the 2010 We achieved an important milestone this harvest. fall by passing our first LIVE inspection. This was the culmination of a full season We are committed to being of effort, and recognizes how we are good environmental stewards, and our “putting our money where our mouth is” excitement is growing as we move in terms of being excellent environmental forward with getting both our vineyard stewards. However, we still have and winery certified as sustainable. another year to go before we are
Current Release Wines: 2008 Jeanie in the Bottle $14.00 per bottle 2008 River Guide White $18.00 per bottle 2008 Sauvignon Blanc $19.00 per bottle 2008 Viognier $19.00 per bottle 2008 Druid's Fluid $18.00 per bottle 2005 Old Vine Meritage $29.00 per bottle 2004 Res. Cab Sauvignon $42.00 per bottle 2005 “Blossom Fire” Res. Cabernet Sauvignon $42.00 per bottle 2006 “Kubli Bench” Cabernet Sauvignon $25 per bottle 2008 “Kubli Bench” Zinfandel $24 2006 Reserve Insomnia Port $29.00 per bottle
Troon Vineyard www.troonvineyard.com Subscribe to our blog: http://troonvineyard.posterous.com/ 1475 Kubli Road Grants Pass, OR 97527
We invite you to take advantage of our free case shipping offer for all online orders! Visit our website at www.troonvineyard.com!
Tel: 541.846.9900
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[email protected] Open Seven Days A Week 11am to 5pm
Open Weekends in January
Carlton, OR 97111 Tel: 503.852.3084 Fax: 503.852.3089 E-mail:
[email protected] Off season tasting room hours: Fri thru Mon 11am - 5pm To inquire about hosting your holiday party at the Tasting Room in Carlton, please contact Joni
Location Open seven days a week From 11am to 5pm Closed Christmas Day & New Years Day Open weekends in January
Thanksgiving 2009
Search for “Troon Vineyard” in your favorite social media applications to stay in touch with Team
Closed Christmas Day & Closed in January
Wine club members can save even more on applicable wines by buying a case! Mix & Match!
24 hours a day to get some for your cellar! If you've been seen traveling sporting Troon Vineyard Apparel and would like to share, send your picture to Liz !
Applegate Valley
250 North Kutch Street
Carlton Location Open Friday, Saturday, Sunday & Monday From 11am to 5pm
Troon Vineyard celebrates Thanksgiving Weekend each year by choosing a local charity to showcase. In years past we have supported the local animal shelters with an adopt-a-thon, the “Locks of Love” organization with a Chop-a-thon, just to name a couple.
Call the tasting room or hop on our website : www.troonvineyard.com Just mention this newsletter or your wine club status to get the appropriate discounts!
Stay Tuned For... Special Pricing on Select Products in January !
“Good times, Fine Wines” visitors the value of their work in our community. While they were here, Team Troon ran a wines by the glass drive that provided a total donation of over $600! In addition to this, Troon Vineyard also joined forces with the other 16 tasting rooms in the Applegate Valley to fight hunger. All 17 tasting rooms offered complimentary tastings in exchange for two cans of food! The food is still being delivered to the collection point but as of the morning of December 2nd, we have already managed to amass a mountain of food!
This year Team Troon chose to highlight Wildlife Images, an In closing, we at Troon Vineyard feel that it’s important to organization located in Grants Pass that focuses be a part of a community. To us that means doing more on education and rehabilitation of our local than just claiming an address. That being said, our efforts wildlife. Each year they save thousands of sick and are only possible injured animals, while educating the public at large through your on the wildlife in our area and how to preserve patronage, so thank their natural habitats and ecosystems. you for all of the Each day during thanksgiving weekend we had Chip, a Wildlife Image Representative on hand with some “special guests” to share with our
support that you show our small winery. Without you none of this would be possible.