Volcano Winery- Volcano, HI Ep. 3 Pt. 1

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https thebestwinepodcast com wp-content uploads 2020 03 Ep -3-Pt -1-Volcano-Winery mp3Volcano WineryWelcome to The Best 5 Minute Wine Podcast I m your host Forrest Kelly from the seed to the glass Wine has a past Our aim at The Best 5 Minute Wine Podcast is to look for adventure at wineries around the globe After all grape minds think alike Let s start the adventure Let s start the adventure Our featured winery in this episode We find out America s Southern Most Winery Do you have a guess Let me give you a hint Aloha Oh you guessed it s Volcano Hawaii is where we venture to My name s Kendall And I m the assistant manager and my associate here at Volcano Winery Well hello Kendall When you first come into the parking lot and you look at the winery what are we looking at Yeah So when you first take a glance at Volcano Winery the first thing that ll definitely jump out to you is that we grow grapes here We have rows of grapevines Japanese tea plants olive trees and a one of a kind Hawaiian grown cork tree Now what is also a cork tree So it s a cork tree but it s harvested You harvest cork from it So the outer layer of the tree is how you harvest the cork And it regenerates every seven years And that s what you used to cork up the wine as you know Cork says what we up in that bottle They keep it nice and sealed up We also have a small tasting room And in addition to that we offer a free vineyard and production room tours in the backdrop You ll see Mauna Loa volcano on the left and Monacan volcano on the right And then we re heavily forested up in this area We have tons of native forests and lava tubes on the property here Lava tube What is that The volcano system on this island They are not the explosive volcano that you would expect to see They re called shield volcanoes And so a shield volcano instead of exploding out it houses the lava in a big crater And then when it goes to release the lava it shoots it out kind of like a plumbing system It shoots it through all the lava tubes which are under our feet So you re just outside of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park I imagine you get a lot of traffic coming from the park Yeah So we re about two miles from the national park entrance So a lot of the times we have customers that are hiking during the day and then they come check us out for an afternoon tasting or kind of the opposite People come in first thing in the morning and do a little tasting so that they can go hiking with a little by little wine Right It s sort of that mountain That volcano doesn t look so big when they re taking it Yeah In reality those are the two biggest mountains in the world If you if we measure them from under the ocean to the tippy tippy top of those mountains taller than Mt Everest Yeah Wow So I was reading on the Web site where you re very passionate about sustainability So I imagine over the years you ve had to do some experimenting to make that happen We ve experimented with a lot of different great varietals here and we ve narrowed down to four varietals that work really good for our microclimate here in the volcano And those would include a great cold symphony and symphony is a hybrid UC Davis California actually created this grape in the 40s by doing a cross of the Mascotte grapes and the Grenache grape So it s kind of a cedar white grape And we tried to blend it through a lot of our wine since it s the main grapes that we re producing here We also do a grape called Cayuse Awaits And that was created at Cornell University for the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York So that grows really well here And then for red wine to do a Pinot Noir and Syrah and those two grapes do really well here We can produce a really well-rounded wines that really embody what you would imagine wine tasting like from Hawaii They re fruity they re light they re juicy and a little bit on the cedar side But yeah that s kind of what you expect coming from a Hawaiian wine That is it for part one in our next episode as we continue speaking with Kendall of Volcano Winery We learn about their sustainability goals and their fundraising Brace yourself because you re out to do this all day for very little money Oh I know And I haven t run out of energy yet It is time now for a Listener Voicemail Question Hi this is Peggy from Long Beach California What is the standard tasting poor when we go to a wine tasting Thank you Good question Peggy Doing my own informal poll and speaking with different wineries it varies Some wineries swan outs others two to three Obviously it s at the discretion of the winery But remember they love it when you buy their wine So they Let s just sample Keep in mind if you re planning on buying Don t hesitate to ask for another sample Sure Thank you for listening I m Forrest Kelly This episode of the Best Five Minute Wine podcast was produced by his IHSYM If you like the show tell your friends and pets and subscribe until next time pour the wine and ponder your next adventure Please 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