Do your duty, drink wine!

May is a time for giving! Give your mom the best Mother's Day experience she could ask for!

Want a "Fueled by Vivác" sports shirt? We have men's & women's sizes in stock! Tell us your running story at VivacWinery.blogspot.com

Spring at your local winery!

EXCITING NEW WAYS TO TASTE AT VIVÁC!
    New tasting menus, wine flights paired with sweet or savory plates & even picnic items will now be available at the Tasting Room!
    We will finally be getting proper glassware to enhance your tasting & drinking pleasure. We have been selling Riedel glasses for a while now, but haven’t been tasting our wines out of them due to the upfront cost...until now! Riedel glassware places the wine in your mouth & over your palate in a specific way to highlight the attributes of the wine.  This gives you the best in a wine tasting experience. The specific Riedel glass we have chosen speaks to the wine making approach Chris & I use. We can’t wait for you to try them!

EARTH DAY CELEBRATION:
Sunday April 22nd 2pm
We host "The Great Salmon Run (Songs of the Fishermen)" written by Sylvia Ernestina Vergara, featuring the 2012 "Embudo Valley Performance Cast" & "Embudo Valley Flowing Stream Ensemble (water orchestra)".

Here in our community & across the world, water is sacred & a disintegrating commodity. We must focus on the protection of threatened Wild Salmon and its habitat in Bristol Bay, Alaska in addition to the Northern New Mexico local fish, waterlife, acequias & rivers we know & love.

This celebration is evoked with poetry, drama, music, song & dance showing how animal & plant interdependence is part of a greater whole.

Vivác Winery is dedicated to the preservation of our local land & water rights. We welcome you to join in the celebration of Earth Day held in our new beautiful vineyard located at our Tasting Room  (junction of Hwy 68 & Hwy 75). Keep the land agricultural, keep the water rights in our community & start local to save the planet.

THE SWEETER SIDE OF VIVÁC:
Vivác Winery is now offering something a little sweeter! We have released a slightly off dry Riesling, a proprietary sweet white blend called "Luminosa" (Luminescent)  and a traditional Port style, fortified wine called "Amante" (Lover).
The Riesling has only a hint of sweetness with firm acidity making it perfect for dry wine drinkers as well as those that enjoy sweets. Our “Luminosa” is a bit sweet, but continues to have some acidity & a hint of oak which rounds out this wine. The "Amante" is made from Tempranillo grapes, aged in oak for 3 years & is fortified making it the perfect sipping wine after dinner.
Don’t worry, all of our sweeter wines are made without adding sugar or sorbate. We simply stopped fermentation prematurely leaving a little of the grape’s natural sweetness in the wine. This means there are no off flavors & the wines still have that wonderful acidity you love from Vivác!  It takes skill & artistry to make a quality sweet wine, we believe we have that here.  We encourage you to try them with spicy dishes, Chinese food, assorted cheeses or as dessert!

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LIVE MUSIC HAPPY HOUR SEASON IS BACK!
Saturdays 4-7pm Starting April 28th with "The Pathetics"!

We know you have missed your favorite local Happy Hour & now it is back & better than ever!
2012 Vivác Happy Hours have...
An incredible line up of Live Music
Better give aways
PICNIC FOOD ITEMS
Wine flights with appetizer plates
stuff for the kiddos
new wines
new chocolates
amazing views

Running the Dixon 5K May 19th?

Run it in a "Fueled by Vivác" sport shirt! Available in Women's & Men's in red, blk or wht. Read up on our blog www.VivacWinery.blogspot.com

After the race, join us for a complimentary glass of wine, redeemable with you race ticket, and enjoy a Live Music Happy Hour!

Vivác has sweet wines?!

Make your friends GREEN with envy when you show up at the St. Patrick's Day party with Vivác wines! Now with a full menu of dry AND sweet wines, Vivác has everything you need. The impecable quality, hands on approach and old world style you love in Vivác wines, now has a sweeter side!

Taste the new sweet wines for FREE all day March 17th!

After all, don't you deserve a little bit of gold at the end of the day?

A taste of what you missed...

if you were not at the Honey Dewdrops house concert last night. Thanks to the 30 or so folks that did show up. Everyone really enjoyed the event, including the band. It sounds like we will get another shot to see this great act again in July as they meander through the neighborhood during one of their summer tours. So keep an ear out for that.

Many thanks again to Kagey and Laura for the great performance. Below is Laura's original tune entitled "Catawba"

 More videos from the Dixon house concert

The Honey Dewdrops- A House Concert in Dixon -UPDATED!

Mark your calendars folks. If you've been to any of the house concerts that have taken place here in Dixon over the past couple of years, you know what a special treat they are to attend and experience. Ken Clark has arranged for the Virginia-based duo, The Honey Dewdrops to spend a little time in our fair town (they'll be staying for a few days) and to give an intimate concert which will be at my (Jeff Spicer's) house on Thursday, March 15th. Admission will be $10 and seating will be limited so call or email Ken (579-9655) to secure your spot on the list. 

Above is a video of the Honey Dewdrops performing an original tune that Mule Britches has taken a stab at a time or two, and below is a bio of the duo. More details of this event will follow as we get closer to performance day, so stay tuned to this page for updates.

Hailing from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Charlottesville, VA, the Honey Dewdrops are Laura Wortman and Kagey Parrish.  Together, they write songs, sing harmonies; play guitar, mandolin, and banjo; have toured the country for the past 4 years and appeared on A Prairie Home Companion; gained Folk Radio notoriety with a #1 album and have shared the stage with musical greats such as Carolina Chocolate Drops, Mary Gauthier, and Matt Flinner Trio.

The Honey Dewdrops have been making music together since they met in 2003.  With two guitars and a shared love of the Beatles, Bill Monroe, Neil Young and Mike Seeger, they began singing their favorite songs together in college with the most pared-down sound.  Almost 9 years later, that sound and the songwriting of the Honey Dewdrops has evolved and begun to dig deeper, with new instrumentation and taking influence from American traditional music as well as modern songwriters like Darrell Scott, Iris Dement, Mary Gauthier and David Francey.

“We’re inspired by songs that are rooted in the experience and lives of people and songs we can all see ourselves in.  We try to write and perform in that spirit,” says Laura.

During their 4 years of touring and traveling and playing for audiences across the country, Laura and Kagey have drawn inspiration from the people they meet and places they stay.  “Traveling has taken us to communities all over and we meet people at the shows, in restaurants, standing in line at the post office or drug store.  Everyone we meet has a story they share and that is inspiring to us,” says Kagey.

The Dewdrops’ latest recording project, Silver Lining, focuses on encounters, characters and situations that connect us all.  There are warnings that in order to get love, we must give love.  There is a desperate plea for the ability to “love like a wild river runs.”  There is a personal, inward look at what happiness is and what it is not.  There is the commitment to persevere when prayers go unanswered.  Through it all there is the realization in Silver Lining that the darkest clouds are the ones that best show “where the colors hide.”  In this third effort, Laura and Kagey take a departure from their previous songs loaded with melancholy outcomes and explore the littlest slivers of hope and how we deeply need to connect with them.  In essence, Silver Lining is a series of songs that will nourish and, minute-by-minute, cultivate a feeling of hope that lingers when the music is finished.

Vist the Honey Dewdrops Website

Update on Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 7:00AM by Tio Jeffé

UPDATE!

This just in.... Seats are filling up. As of Monday night we had about 10 seats left, so if you're thinking about coming call or email Ken now. On Thursday eve, we will have some light snacky things available, and if you want to bring something to share, feel free. Josh Johnson will be here pouring fine beverages from Blue Heron Brewery and La Chiripida. Also, if you're not able to come to the show, we think you'll be able to listen in via KLDK.... but there are still some technical issues to deal with, so that is definitely not definite. If you are driving, I strongly urge you to park across the street at the Library/Coop when you come. Thanks.