Eagles Nest Winery (Twitter: @eaglesnestwine, FaceBook http://facebook.com/eaglesnestwine) wins two Gold medals in Temecula Wine Society Competition at July 29^th 2009 Awards Dinner benefiting their Oenology Scholarship program. The dinner was hosted at Wiens Family Cellers event center. Other San Diego County award winners are posted at end of this posting, below.

Wiens Family Cellars Event Pavillion

Eagles Nest Winery won Gold Medals for its 2007 Estate Syrah and 2007 Reserve Syrah. The classic wines featured the deep color and flavor extraction so characteristic of hand-made boutique wines.

Food Pairing: Syrah can handle robust, hearty foods, including grilled or braised meats. Lamb is a classic pairing. Full-flavored dishes, thick stews and herby grilled vegetables are other ideal matches.

Pictured below is a portion of our estate Syrah vineyards that produced the award winning wine.

Listed further below are the San Diego County wineries medalists in the Temecula competition.

View of Eagles Nest Syrah Vineyards

Congratulations to the following San Diego County wineries:

(Listed alphabetically by Winery, Vintage, Varietal, AVA)

Gold Medals

• Eagles Nest Winery – 2007 Syrah Estate Ramona Valley
• Eagles Nest Winery – 2007 Syrah South Coast
• Ramona Winery – Schwaesdall — Non Vintage Cabernet Sauvignon South Coast

Silver Medals

• Cactus Star Vineyard – Scaredy Cat Ranch Tempranillo Ramona Valley
• Hawk Watch — 2006 Synthesis South Coast
• Orrin Vineyards – 2006 Zinfandel South Coast
• Ramona Winery – Schwaesdall – Non Vintage  Merlot South Coast

Bronze Medals

• Hawk Watch — 2005 Meritage South Coast
• Hawk Watch — 2006 Syrah South Coast
• La Serenissima 2006 Cabernet Franc South Coast
• Mahogany Mountain – 2007 Zinfandel Ramona Valley
• Orfila Vineyards & Winery 2006 Merlot South Coast
• Orfila Vineyards & Winery 2006 Sangiovese South Coast
• Orfila Vineyards & Winery 2005 Syrah South Coast
• Orfila Vineyards & Winery Non Vintage Viognier South Coast
• Pamo Valley Winery – 2006 Syrah Ramona Valley
• Shadow Mountain Vineyards 2008 Muscat South Coast
• Shadow Mountain Vineyards 2007 Casignone South Coast
• Shadow Mountain Vineyards 2005 Variation-3 South Coast
• Woof’ n Rose Winery 2007 Cabernet Franc Ramona Valley
• Woof’ n Rose Winery 2007 Cabernet Franc Ramona Valley
• Woof’ n Rose Winery 2007 Merlot Ramona Valley

Link to Temecula Wine Society’s award page here

Wiens Family Cellars, Temecula CA

Hear some opera and learn the history of Port wines.

Our 2007 Ruby Port-styled wine is a GOLD MEDAL winner at the 2010 New York Finger Lakes International Wine Competition ( FLIWC ) – 3rd largest commercial wine competition Globally, 666 internation/national wineries and over 3,000 entries .

Below videos are hosted on You Tube

Our broadcast was 20 minutes – YouTube limits video clips to 10 minutes, so we edited the tasting into two video clips below the Operatic Aria introduction, and the Winemakers Tasting Notes discussion.

Thanks for joining us here - please visit Eagles Nest Winery and Cottage’s website and on-line web store  here ( http://eaglesnestwinery.com )

This the Port tasting portion of our Friday Video stream (~10 minutes in length)

This the Opera portion of our Friday Video Stream (~5 minutes in length)

Date: Sunday June 14^th, 2009

Time 5:00 PM to 7:30 PM

Location: Lotsa Pasta, 1762 Garnet Avenue

1.5 blocks east of Ingrahm on Garnet Avenue

Silent Auction and Raffle!

Heavy Hors d’oeuvres and Gourmet Desserts

Tickets: Purchase at Pacific Beach Town Council Office for $30

1706 Garnet Avenue, Pacific Beach, CA 92109

Phone (858) 483-6666

We back up that claim with awards – 100% of our 2007-2008 vintage wines and Ports have won thirty (30) medals in highly credible International, National, and Regional wine competitions within in the 2009-2010 competition season.

The near-daily marine (fog) layer offers a dynamic (and enchanting)  real-life scene for Eagles Nest Villa/Cottage guests each morning, and insight into the excellent climate and winegrape growing conditions of the Ramona Valley.

Located 20 miles from the Pacific coast to the west, and 20 miles from the Sonora Desert to the east – the AVA’s weather pattern gives us a desirable cooling effect for the vines in the evenings and at night,  readying them for the following long warm growing day temperatures.

If you wanted to farm excellent table grapes, California’s Central Valley is a great place with its long hot days, warm evenings and nights that produce large, high sugar, low acid grapes.

This, however is not the climate you need for growing quality wine grapes - which need cool evenings and nights to maintain a balance between sugars and acids. No one likes a flat/flabby low acid wine – thus grapes grown in hot regions would not make a good choice for wine making.

Please visit us at http://eaglesnestwinery.com Click here! see our vineyards and experience the enchanting fog/marine layer for yourself by visiting us at Eagles Nest Vacation Villa/Cottage.  Read our actual guest comments- Click here!

Below are some sequential photos taken in May, before we started positioning the vertical shoot growth in the vineyards. You can see the marine layer dissipate as the morning sun warms it.

5: 55 AM Pre-sunrise

6:30 AM The sun begins to warm the marine/fog layer and it rises

6:51 AM The fog begins to dissipate

7:04 AM The fog further dissipates

7:30 AM Further dissipation…

Here’s a photo the next day showing ground fog only, no marine layer