What better way to celebrate the unanimous passage of HR9 than with our own historic vines? Rest easy, vines, you’re safe! ~ Please stay tuned as we follow our lovely vines through the 2013 vintage! We’re fourteen weeks in to-date, and… Read More ›
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#VineWatch13: Week 13!
To stand with new friends beside a vine –the wine limning crystal, faces bright under a crisply sprung Spring sun– is to close a circle’s story, is to sing a song of praise, is to understand a journey’s true commencement by its… Read More ›
#VineWatch13: Week 12 = BUDBREAK!!!
There are few moments along a growing season’s viticultural timeline that generate the same kind of excitement as budbreak. Veraison, certainly. Harvest, of course. But budbreak comes first, and with it comes Spring, and accordingly, it occupies a uniquely symbolic place. In the… Read More ›
#VineWatch13: Week 11! It’s all Cover Crop, all the time …
Greetings everyone, and welcome to another week of #VineWatch13! Things are beginning to get exciting for our vines; on the mountain, we’ve actually begun to see a few buds popping out! Nothing yet for our friend over in the cab… Read More ›
#VineWatch13: Week 10!
Can you believe it’s been ten weeks already? Ten weeks! And yet, still so far to go. So many hurdles, so many milestones … budbreak, veraison, harvest … ah, to dream … But ten weeks is special, and these vines… Read More ›
#VineWatch13: Week 9!
A rolling stone may gather no moss, but old-vine zin is a rock! And while we’re at it, s’cuse me while I kiss this sky! – Please stay tuned as we follow our lovely vines through the 2013 vintage! We’re nine… Read More ›
#VineWatch13: Week 8! (Sustainability & Star Wars)
Sustainability is a tricky thing. It’s like mind in search of no-mind. There is no there there. Sustainability is a tricky thing. It’s like sequestration. There is no perfect answer, and there must always be compromise. As but one example, consider weeds…. Read More ›
#VineWatch13: Week 7! In-Row Tilling, & The Return Of The Fog!
For our Week 7 edition of #VineWatch13, I have something quite cool to share; a close-up look at a very cool vineyard procedure known as In-Row Tilling! Full disclaimer, the footage below was shot at our Geyserville vineyards (meaning, it’s… Read More ›
#VineWatch13: Week 6! (Pruning!)
Ah, big doings up here on the hill, our Monte Bello vine has had a hair cut! It was quite exciting actually, as our vine was pruned as part of an annual ritual of great significance; the morning that our… Read More ›
#VineWatch13: Week 5!
I am traveling at the moment (currently awaiting the high-jinks howls of the coyotes as they commence their nocturnal gambol across the hills of Santa Barbara, beneath the chary approval of bright Orion and his constellar concomitants alit with country noirscapes),… Read More ›
