Vineyards Cutting Crop

Tim Tesconi's article, Grape glut prompting growers to cut crop, in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat explains that many growers are thinning their crops. Faced with what could be the biggest grape crop in North...

Harvest Report: Grapes are Changing Color

For those interested in how my babies, the grape vines, are doing they are changing color in some regions but not in others. The grapes in Russian River have been changing colors from green to...

Winemaking Flaws: Brett

Janet Fletcher's article, "Does this smell funny? A pesky yeast causes a stink" in SF Gate is an excellent article on Brettanomyces, the funky smelling yeast residue. Overview of Brettanomyces A trade-off of California winemakers...

Winemaking Trend: Unoaked Chardonnay's

As witnessed by two articles on the same day, a very popular topic is oaking strategies for Chardonnay. Linda Murphy's article, "When oak gets in the way" in SF Gate about the growing winemaking trend...

Red Wine Headaches

While giving wine tastings, people occasionally mention that red wines give them a headache. When I told my land land, I made wine, she said that she suffers from red wine headaches (RWH). She tried...

Winery Visit: Siduri

After going to Gary Farrell, I called Adam Lee, the winemaker and proprietor of Siduri. He invited us to swing by but had only about 30 mins. The winery is in a non-descript office park...

Vineyard Visit: Teldeschi Zin

On Sunday, Kiara and I went up to Hotel Healdsburg to decompress, detox, and possibly intox after our epic 3 Day Wedding weekend. Monday we went to visit Ray Teldeschi, a grape source of my...