Noisy Water Winery

🍇Time on the Vine and Nature's Variables:🍇

Harvest season is upon us-the moment of the year that all of our efforts and preparations have led up to! Harvesting doesn't happen on an annual day of the year though. Mother Nature decides when the grapes are ready and harvesting varies every year! Typically in July-August the grapes begin to ripen. They transition from small green clusters to colorful bulbous beauties. Witnessing it is as magical as it seems as a grape can change colors dramatically even just over night. Hues of translucent gold and purple-ruby sweep the fields as the grapes bulge into their best selves and then, and only then, are they ready for the picking. Until this moment, we wait for Mother Nature's green light.

So what natural occurrences can happen that define when we harvest?

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HOW WE DECIDE WHEN TO HARVEST

LATE & EARLY HARVESTS

Some grapes are picked early or late on purpose. Select early-picked grapes are typically used for some whites and sparkling wines for their high acidity. Other grapes can be picked almost a month later for wines like Cabernet Sauvignon. A late-harvest grape typically is sweeter and less acidic the longer it stays on the vine.

Early Harvest Wines:

BRIGHT ∙ ACIDIC ∙ CRSIP

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Late Harvest Wines:

RICH ∙ BOLD ∙ BALANCED

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🍇 Port Wine: Here's The Scoop: 🍇

Port has been made for centuries dating back all the way to 1174! Traditionally port wine was made in Portugal’s Douro Valley when the English started sourcing their red wine in Portugal after they boycotted French wine in the 17th century. To help preserve the wine on their journey in giant ships back to England, the Englishmen added brandy to the red wine to fortify it and make sure it wouldn't spoil during the ship's journey. As a result, it accidentally made one of the world's most unique and diverse beverages. 

Read More On Port Wine 

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HOW ITS MADE

During fermentation, when the alcohol level of a wine reaches a certain point, it is fortified with brandy. This brings the fermentation process to a halt, preventing the grape sugar to convert into alcohol any further. The nuances of fruit in the young wine are captured in the process, leaving behind a port of its own uniqueness.

PORTS FOR YOU

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Choose your experience! Join us in the Library and taste our private collection of past vintages in a vertical tasting, or come out to Enchanted Vine for a winery tour and proprietary wine tasting! Better yet...do both!!!

Library Tasting
Join us in the Library for an exclusive 1 hour guided vertical wine tasting from our private supply of past vintage wines!

The Library Tasting includes:
One Current Vintage White, One Library Vintage White
One Current Vintage Red, One Library Vintage Red
(Sweet & Dry options available!)

Cost is $40/person

Available Friday - Sunday

4 PERSON MINIMUMS

Winery Tour & Proprietary Tasting

Take a tour of our 5 acre property, venue, and working production facility at Enchanted Vine in Alto, just 15 min. from Midtown Ruidoso!

Throughout this experience you will receive a tank sample, barrel sample and a lineup of a current vintage red, white & rose! All made from our flagship vineyard the Forbidden Desert Vineyard in Engle, NM!

Tours are 1 hour and cost $60/person.
Available Thursday - Monday

4 PERSON MINIMUMS

Inspiration

Wild White is a marriage of two ancient beverages, tea and wine , and a celebration of nature's complexities.  It reminds us that the most beautiful things are prolific and independent: they are wild!

Taste

Crisp and bright with nuances of green apple, honey, herbs, lemon, and wildflowers.  

$1 of each bottle sold is donated to EcoServants

VINTAGE 2020

VARIETAL Skin-Fermented Chenin Blanc

APPELLATION Forbidden Desert, Engle NM

HARVEST DATE 08/21/2019

SUGAR 24.5 Brix at Harvest

ALCOHOL % 12.5

Want first pick of our new wines and invitations to our release parties? Join the Taste of New Mexico Wine Club!

🍇 Oxygen: Wine's Best Friend & Worst Enemy🍇

Oxygen can make or break wine, so the winemaking process is tedious and requires constant attention and awareness. Oxygen is needed particularly during the fermentation process as yeast need it to survive! A by product of the fermentation process is CO2, and can actually become very dangerous during, as it can cause a person to fall unconscious if breathed in.

Read More On The Magic

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DID YOU KNOW?

White wines don’t want a lot of oxygen contact prior to fermentation because it can cause browning. So we use dry ice to blanket the juice in the tank and then start fermentation. Once fermentation is started, co2 blankets the juice and prevents browning. Some white wines come out darker due to the aging process, like oak aged Chardonnays.

For quality control purposes, we taste the wine on the job but begrudgingly have to spit it out as no one wants a boozy winemaker running forklifts or making their wine. 

Perfectly Crafted Wines Made With The Just The Right Amount of Oxygen

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Sweet and Dry wines alike, try the new vintages and unique wines that have just been release!