PAINTED LADY VINEYARD
About Us
We both come to farming via a rather circuitous route.
Jodi is a graduate of Prescott High School, the University of Phoenix, and has a master's degree from the College for Financial Planning, Denver, CO. She is a partner in a local financial advising firm in Prescott - Taylor & Padgett Wealth and Legacy Strategies, and is passionate about her work partnering with clients wishing to leave a personal, not simply financial, legacy to those who follow.
I hail from Zambia, Africa and a career in food service. I came to Prescott in 1996 and in 2000 obtained my bachelor's degree in Environmental Studies through the Adult Degree Program at Prescott College. Since then I have been the Education Director of a local non-profit educational organization in Prescott, the Highlands Center for Natural History. I confess to a passion for the natural world and spending time with children - of all ages - exploring the big world of the great outdoors.
A sense of the possible exists within both of us and that's why we grow wine grapes in Skull Valley. For the past 4 years we have learned that the possibility of success for this venture depends on many things beyond our control! Thus the challenges are never-ending. Friends, family and other vintners have helped us learn, accept the uncontrollable (or helped us try to control them!),
and celebrate and share the joys.
Drinking wine with them all helped as well!
Why the "Painted Lady Vineyard"? No, there is not some funny business going on down in Skull Valley! No painted ladies looking for work! Instead, the ephemeral yet cosmopolitan Painted Lady butterfly decided to migrate by the thousands in the summer of 2006, the year we planted the vines. Lucky for us. If we had planted in 2007 perhaps the vineyard would be named after a grasshopper!
Eric Glomski is both our winemaker and good buddy. We have both known him for many years, and his lovely family in more recent years. Life has thrown all of us many curve balls but we swung at 'em anyway and I think we have made a few fabulous home runs! He has stretched us to become winegrowers, and surely that is a good thing.
We love the land and our working goal is to reintroduce native vegetation to our acreage and do so in ways that are kind to all creatures and plants, ourselves and our animals. Our progress is slow but sure. We share the land with many beloved pets, chickens, ducks, Duke the horse, O.P. the llama, and Wayne the fat goat.
Our Wine
We are the growers of the wine, not the makers of it! After laboring many hours in the vineyard trying to produce the best grapes possible, we would rather leave the winemaking to the experts. So the grapes travel from our land in Skull Valley to Page Springs Cellars where Eric Glomski and his wonderful crew of men and women take over and begin the magic of turning the fruit into the wine.
At Painted Lady Vineyard we organically cultivate only Gewurztraminer vines and craft our grapes into a traditional Alsatian style wine - dry, fruity and elegant. After destemming, our winemaker, Eric Glomski, allows the grapes to sit on their skins for up to forty-eight hours before pressing the berries and fermenting in stainless steel for one month (*see below from Eric Glomski*). After primary fermentation, malolactic fermentation is inhibited and the wine is aged in neutral oak for several months.
By not filtering for cold or hot stabilization, that is using cream of tartar and bentonite as filters, we keep the wonderful aromatics in our wine, as well as the full bloom flavor of this grape varietal. Oz Clarke describes Gewurztraminer wine as if it was, indeed, a painted lady, a bosomy woman, with too much make-up because she craves attention. He says, "...[she] wants the sultry tones of passion and seduction giving way to the earthy notes of exhaustion and sleepy satisfaction. You want to guarantee that nostrils will quiver from the first moment you sweep through the door, you want clouds of Yves Saint Laurent's Opium, Calvin Klein's Obsession and Giorgio of Beverley Hills to billow out before you, announcing the arrival of the one grape no-one can resist. Yourself!" Thanks Oz!
Generally speaking, our fine Gewurztraminer is bottled in the spring after harvest and is released a few months thereafter. The final wine is not sweet: it is fresh and complex with intense fruit and spice notes. Pair it with a variety of foods or enjoy it by itself, lightly chilled.
Winery Location Address: 1500 N Page Springs Rd
Cornville, AZ 86325
Region: Arizona
E-mail: www.paintedladyvineyard.com/
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