Crush for 2024 wines are done; the wines are now in barrel and time to think of the next effort in the cellar – blending the 2023 wines for final release, or what I refer to as the “Art of Blending,” to produce a final… Read More »The Art of Blending 2023
We pressed off our last load of grapes, the 2024 Cabernet Sauvignon to tank and to settle for one week, then to barrels for final aging and before bottling. We refer to this time of year as “crush” which involves making the final decision to… Read More »Crush 2024
It’s been a while and I am excited to update all our wine friends, past wine club members and new customers. Back in 2018, I decided to stop making wine after twenty nine years and focus my time on other interests. We closed the main… Read More »It’s Been a While…
Grapes are grown in the vineyards, duh, and the best wines are made from great grapes. But great grapes don’t necessarily mean great wine. It is a dance between the farmers growing the grapes and the winemaker carrying the fruit forward. We have been fortunate… Read More »Our Vineyards
Update from the vineyards: “As it is now, it seems that the heat wave has passed. Normally we harvest the merlot the last week of September and the first week of October and the malbec the first week of October onwards, everything depends on the… Read More »Fermentation