Brad Peterson
Appearances
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Good morning. Thank you.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Tumi Cellars is actually another brand of the same family that Duncan family owns. But yeah, I manage the Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon for Silver Oak.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
That is a water tower.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Isn't that the point? I've never had that happen. Never?
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
So this is not chilled. No, I'm not drinking the whole bottle.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Cabernet Sauvignon, not warm, but room temperature, hopefully somewhere between 55 and 65 degrees.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Very nice job. You've done this before.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
So I am responsible for taking care of 250 acres of Cabernet Sauvignon in Alexander Valley. And that entails every aspect of the growing season from pruning in the wintertime all the way through harvest, which is what we're doing right now, actually.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
So basically every aspect of that I oversee and make decisions on how it should be done, when it should be done to produce the best quality fruit that we possibly can.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
We both. Yeah. And I'll apologize first right off the bat. We started at 2 a.m. this morning. And so I'm I'm maybe a little rummy at times. And we've been doing this for about two and a half weeks. So, you know, you're going to get what you get.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
No, it's basically a temperature thing. The fruit comes off a little easier. It's a little firmer. It holds up a little better when it's cool. We don't like to pick when it's over about 80 degrees, which, you know, depending on what time, which week it is. We've had weeks this year, this season that have been in the 70s and weeks that have been in the 90s.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
There are some spots where it's just not feasible to machine harvest. Either the trellis and the way the vines are structured is just too big for the machine to fit over, or there's a little bit too much offset, a little too much terracing in some of these side hill vineyards that we have. Yeah. Those we have to pick by hand still.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
This year's growing season was actually pretty nice. We had a beautiful springtime, great temperatures during springtime. Bud break and bloom, which is really when those grapes get formed and those clusters develop on the vine. We had some heat in July. We were probably averaged about 95 to 98 degrees. We had a couple of weeks it was over 100 for quite a while.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
And then it's been pretty moderate since then. So really overall, pretty good growing season.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
I have, yeah. Straight? I had a glass of it last night, actually.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
No, I get it out of the bottle just like everybody else.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
It's not overly dry.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Yeah. Absolutely. So for Silver Oak, our goal is to produce a wine that you can open up and drink. It's very enjoyable. It's smooth. The tannins have mellowed. There's still a little bit of fruit there, especially with this one only being four years old. It just should be enjoyable to drink. It shouldn't be harsh. and it should age for another 10 to 15 years depending on the vintage.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
So this is our current release. This is what's out there available right now. If you go into a wine shop or a nice restaurant, this is what you'd find would be the 2020. So we actually hold those wines in barrel and then in bottle for a total of four years before we release it.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
The dry part, I mean, there's no residual sugar, so it shouldn't be sweet. I think what you're talking about is tannins, and the tannins are what are really grippy. They kind of get the back of your tongue and the back of your throat. So that's why we age it for four years to let those tannins mellow out. It's aged in all American oak.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
The barrels are produced back in Higbee, Missouri at our cooperage that Silver Oak owns. So we kind of have control of the whole process.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
So what we're, what we shoot for is that it'll continue to mellow. Those tannins will continue to soften. The fruit will change a little bit. It won't be quite that fresh. If you've, you really have to go taste a 10 year old wine or a 15 year old wine. It's not, it's going to taste different. You're going to get different notes in there.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
You're going to get different flavors and whatnot, but it'll still be very good. Very enjoyable. I don't tend to leave them that long.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
That would be a little different just depending on who made the wine and whatnot. For Silver Oak, we're always trying to make a consistent product. So you go into a restaurant, you go into a wine shop, and you're looking for a real nice bottle of wine to have for an anniversary or a birthday or for celebration or whatnot.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
We want to be the bottle that you reach for that you know is consistently excellent quality, that's going to be good. You know what it's going to taste like. If you've tasted it before, it's going to taste very familiar when you open the next bottle or the following vintage.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
You can order it direct shipped from Silver Oak. You can get it on our website, provided your state allows us to ship to you. We can ship directly to you. Most fine wine shops have it. Most good steakhouses, good fine restaurants have them.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Usually your heavier meals, so you want to pair it with a steak or a heavy pasta. Lasagna is good.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
I actually grew up – my dad was the vineyard manager for Silver Oak before me. He was their first employee. Really? Well, I grew up in the vineyards, in Silver Oak Vineyards, as a kid running up and down the roads, you know, riding all over the place, driving tractors, usually going to retrieve a broke down go-kart or a mini bike somewhere on the ranch.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
And then when I got older, I was really interested in the mechanical side of things. And so I kind of wanted to go a different direction. I went and did that for a while, restored cars for about 10 years or so. And then when I decided to To change careers, there was an opening at Silver Oak, and I thought, all right, what the heck. So I went back. I started there in 1999. Oh, wow.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Just celebrated 25 years.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
I do, yeah, occasionally.
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F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Uh, I've got, uh, I've got a 1940 Ford pickup. That's been hot rotted that, uh, someday I hope to finish. Uh, and then, uh, really enjoyed the, the mid 60s, 65, 66, 67 Buick Grand Sports.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
GTO, but with the, but in the Buick line.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Yeah, something like that. But that's this time of year. Now I get to go do all the paperwork and keep up on all the other things that need to happen. So I'll get some sleep this afternoon.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Yeah. Silveroak.com. Easy to find our website there. And then it also has links to Toomey and all of our other social media sites and whatnot.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
On the Tumi side, we do several Pinot Noirs and a Sauvignon Blanc.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
You bet. I'm glad you're enjoying the wine. And when you get out here to Sonoma County, be sure and look me up. We'll take you around, show you the winery, show you the vineyards. And there's not a whole lot to see in February. It's a heck of a lot more interesting this time of year, but we can still have a lot of fun.
Farm4Profit Podcast
F4F - Just a Jackson Thing and Tony Reed - Breaking the Internet
Cheers. Cheers.