Shypoke Vineyards
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Our family has farmed this same piece of land for over a hundred years. You might say we are old friends; a lot of history, some wild stories. In fact, our stories are intertwined. We take pride in our land and are pleased to see it flourishing. Just as we strive for balance in our lives, we encourage it at Shypoke. Nature in balance is everywhere at hand: a resident great horned owl in the oak tree by the house and red tail hawks who strategize from atop the wind machine. Perhaps gophers and moles don’t think of this as balance. Our children play hide and seek in the vine rows and so do the beneficial insects that eat up the bad bugs. So we use no pesticides in the vineyard. Farming simply allows us to watch nature in balance.
We start with vines that are hand tended. Thinning shoots, dropping slow poke bunches, aiming for uniform berry size, a healthy canopy that will propel our fruit to greatness. We patiently wait for full ripe flavors to develop. We hand select the fruit as we pick it from the vine. Using traditional fermentation techniques, we carefully craft the wines. When we barrel down our vintages we carefully select barrels from artisan coopers who have mastered the craft of creating barrels of elegance and subtlety. It is these barrels which will strike a balance with the wines we place into them. Our goal is to carry the balance in the field through to the glass.
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