Kingfisher Co Free Fair August 2011

Sandyland Vineyard received a purple Champion ribbon for our 2010 Chenin Blanc. Our Riesling and Chenin Blanc competed in Oklahoma Grown Grapes receiving a white and blue ribbon in their division.

In September 2011, Hennessey United held their first wine and chocolate festival in Memorial Park.  Their success was beyond  imagination as over 500 people attended.  Scott,Diane, Leon and I (with the help of friends) were overwhelmed with the turnout.  We stood and served wine and talked about our grapes for over three hours!  We also placed 2nd in a contest with professional bottlers.  We lost only to a winery in Lahoma that does NOT own ONE GRAPE VINE! Join us next year!!!!

Sandylandvineyard.com

Ryan and Tom has set up our new website sandylandvineyard.com   It is under construction now but hope to have it up and running soon.  Thanks to Ryan and Tom!!!!!!

Harvest 2011

Harvest 2011 is over....details and more photos to follow......12 cases of Gatorade and water consumed to keep the workers hydrated.  It was dark when we started each morning and hot when we finished.  Thanks to everyone who helped.  The hail damage hit us hard but we were still able to bring in over 6000 lbs of grapes. Please visit Windmill Winery in Roosevelt to purchase our 2010 crop.

                                                                      Harvest 2011

                                                                  The night before......

                                                 Field testing the briix with the refractometer

                                                                Sangiovese grapes 2011

                                                                        Pretty grapes !!

                                          The juice and pulp after going through the de-stemmer.

                                                                     The discarded stems...

                                                                       First fermentation...

1st Annual Alumni Wine Tasting

 

 

     This picture says it all!!!Thanks to everyone who fought the heat and joined us for our first wine tasting.  We really appreciated that so many of you came to taste our wine.  The Class of 71 rolled out and put the Class of 66 to shame.  I guess it was too early, or too hot or maybe because you are too old!!! We gave tours of the vineyard, the campsite AND we enjoyed the fruits of our labor. Thanks to everyone who purchased our wine.  We hope you have enjoyed the wine and jelly!!!!Let us know if you need more!!! Again, Thanks to everyone!!!                                                                        

Harvest 2011
On Saturday July 30, 2011 we met and harvested 860 pounds of our Sangiovese grapes. By 9:15 AM the grapes were on their way to Windmill Winery.  There was so much hail damage in June that our tonnage is way low considering what we expected.