“Live Sheep Herding Demo & Wine Tasting”
pictures from an earlier sheep herding demo
Sunday, July 26, ‘09

Menu and Wine List

Our wines, as a style, are intentionally different from other Australian wines. At every level and within every varietal our wines need to be supportive and complementary to a variety of foods. Our winemakers cannot forget that wines need to be ‘food friendly’ and have an appreciation of what people seek and then be able to deliver !  

“Yellow Tail Winery” click to visit

The ‘namesake’ of the brand is the Yellow-Footed Rock Wallaby, a relative of the Kangaroo and an endangered species !
Yellow Tail is a new wine brand and was a chance for the Casella Family, originally from Italy, to enter the bottled wine market having previously supplied bulk wine to other wineries and became the #1 imported wine to the USA in 2003. This winery has expanded it’s size 10 times and has the capacity to have 300 hundred million liters on site with more wine produced & stored elsewhere. 

Sunday, July 26^th ‘09

Sheep Herding begins “promptly” at 12:00 Noon

12:00 to 3:30 in the afternoon

$50.00 / Person – 2 Whites & 3 Reds + 5 Food Courses

·       If you are thinking that this event is one that you’d like to attend … Reserve now – this will “fill up” quickly !

 Menu and wines from a previous Australian event
July's Menu will be posted soon

First Course :

Bacon, Lettuce Tomato Soup
Jacob’s Creek Riesling – 2002, 04

Second Course :

Field Greens, Walnuts & Melon .. Tossed w/ Gorgonzola Cheese
McPherson Chardonnay – 2004 

Third Course :

Marinated & Grilled ‘Free Range Chicken’ w/ Hyabussa Sauce
Ozwell Shiraz, S. E. Australia – 2002 

Fourth Course :

“Outback Stew” of Beef Cubes & Vegetables in a Rich Gravy
Yellow Tail Merlot – 2001

 Dessert Course :

Gorgonzola & Port Cheese Cake w/ a Pecan / Graham Crust
Penfold’s Club Port  

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Border Collies and an exciting afternoon of sheep herding and fine food and wines - Pictures from a previous event.
No! lamb was not on the menu ??
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Dave the Wonder Dog - a great sheep herder                    Dave's Boss, Carolyn   Five young sheep getting ready for their performance The stars of the show - Carolyn and Dave The supporting cast Caught between the people and that DOG! Carolyn with her sheep crook. This picture is courtesy of Susan Mayrant; a guest at the wonderful wine tasting. A sheep dog is well trained to cut-out one sheep. Dave watches while Carolyn explains how this sheep might be sheared or ..... get medical treatment, shots or a quick health exam. Dave waits while the younger dogs get ready for their chance. The handler stays with the flock as the young dog works. This dog is eighteen months old. Training is a long proposition and always needs reinforcement. Carolyn did a great job of explaing the training and the herding process. Never ate lamb in my life - nice sheep. The show's almost over. Happy faces. The two gentlemen at this table were celebrating birthdays. A wine tasting is a great place to meet new friends from almost anywhere. You can't help notice that the sound level is directly proportional to the wine consumed. … about  Carolyn Wilki, herding demonstrator …  Raspberry Ridge Sheep Farm Bangor, PA  610-luv-lamb    BDRCOLLIESS@aol.com  Attended Cornell University, graduate of Bryn Mawr College, cum laude, psychology major. Has been herding and training dogs since 1987, teaching and writing about the subject since 1989. In 1992, her column “So You’d Like to Try Herding” won the Maxwell Award for best column from the Dog Writers Association of America. She lives on a 66 acre oasis called Raspberry Ridge Sheep Farm with Border Collies and German Shepherds – all of whom herd – as well as a flock of sheep whose number can be as high as 250 head depending on the time of year.  Carolyn also offers a Bed & Breakfast facility – “dogs and their well behaved humans are welcome.”  She trains all breeds of dogs, all herding courses and all styles of herding at Raspberry Ridge and has instructed her own dogs / dogs & their owners to over 100 herding titles. Carolyn conducts “herding instinct” tests and has tested well over 1000 dogs of all breeds for “herding instinct.”  She is a member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers and was a speaker at the APDT 2000 Annual Educational Conference.