Winery visit: Chateau Morissette

 

 

 This is where we meet the tour guide to start the tour and learned about the history of the winery. The most interesting fact we learned when starting the tour was story of how blue the dog became the symble of the winery for his love of red wine.

Here we were able to see all of the winess currently produced by the winery and even tired a couple of their more populur wines.

In there aging area morissette is able to produce over 200,000 gallons of wine. In the picutre are 5,00 gallon storage vates with two 50,000 gallon vates at the back of the rows.

Here they use french oak barels to store many of their againg wines. To have a quick way to tell between the againg whites & reds, they use a black paw print that is said to be place on the barels by blue trying to get into any of the reds.

In the above two pictures is where our tour guide showed us the area they bottle every wine produced at morissette. They are capable of producing around 5,000 bottles a hour which are all corked and labeled by hand.

 At the end of the tour we saw a barel that morissette is in the process of developing. The concept, which is in the process of againg a test wine, would use the same wood that composes the againg barels but would be able to be deconstured to shave the inside of the wood to expose the unused porition, thus becoming a new barel.