http://www.mankashills.com/blog The Mankas Hills Vineyards Blog Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:09:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We're proud to announce the launch of the Mankas Hills Vineyards Wine Club. After quite a bit of thought on how best to set it up for our customers and after going through various iterations, we finally launched it late in August. Our Wine Club is fairly simple and it leaves ... http://www.mankashills.com/blog/?p=24 If you've been watching our site closely these last few months we've added yet more awards to our already long list of accolades won by Mankas Hills Vineyards wines. In the recent 2008 Riverside International Wine Competition, the 2005 Contado Mankas Cabernet Sauvignon won a Silver Medal. This was among more ... http://www.mankashills.com/blog/?p=21 Just a quick note to let everyone know that we've done some restructuring of our sampler cases. As those of you familiar with our site know, our samplers are a great way to try out our wines. They group together certain wines at a nice discount so that you get ... http://www.mankashills.com/blog/?p=22 As the holiday season draws to a close we would like to once again thank all our customers and friends for making 2007 a success. 2007 was a busy year for Mankas Hills Vineyards. We once again significantly increased our customers and sales figures. At the same time we've been doing some ... http://www.mankashills.com/blog/?p=20 We haven't had a chance to blog for a while as we've all been busy getting our 2005s ready for release. In the meantime though we've managed to develop a nice little "Virtual" Vineyard Tour for all of you to better see our vineyard, people, and events. We love to take ... http://www.mankashills.com/blog/?p=19 For this Holiday Season we would like to once again thank all our customers and friends for making 2006 a success. To all of you we wish you a great holiday season and a prosperous new year. 2006 was a great year for Mankas Hills Vineyards. The number of people who ... http://www.mankashills.com/blog/?p=18 The month of September was officially declared California Wine Month. We are proud to be part of the more than 2000 wineries that produce wine in California. Various wineries are celebrating with special events, sales, promotions and so on. To celebrate this special month we are discounting all our wine cases ... http://www.mankashills.com/blog/?p=17 It's been a long warm summer and we've all been very busy with various aspects of the vineyard (hence the slow down in posts to this blog). Following the Suckering and Thinning process we described in one of our previous posts, the next step that happens during the summer (usually in ... http://www.mankashills.com/blog/?p=16 We are very pleased to report a few more addition to the already long list of awards won by Mankas Hills Vineyards wines. Our 2004 Amelie Cabernet Sauvignon - Merlot was awarded a silver medal at the San Francisco International Wine Competition. At this same competition our 2004 Contado ... http://www.mankashills.com/blog/?p=15 In the past year there has been an explosion in the number of blogs online. The amount of wine related blogs is staggering and the amount of information one can find out on wines is incredible. It is a great and personal way for everyone to find an audience for ... http://www.mankashills.com/blog/?p=14