Sonoma mobile bottling line in time-lapse video
I have some of my client's wine made at the Deerfield custom crush facility in Kenwood. I stopped by the other day to check on some barrels of 2016 Cab and Syrah. They had a mobile bottling line running under the tent at the crush pad. After watching this video, we...
Mega-sized sculptures in the vineyard make for a fun evening walk
My good friend and talented photographer, R.K. "Bob" Berg, invited me to join him on a walk through a dramatic installation of new mega-sculptures now underway at a major vineyard here in Carneros. These epic pieces are inspiring, challenging, and set quite the...
Sonoma hits record high temps
Roaring hot in Sonoma this week... Anecdotal information is always susceptible to mental inflation, especially when it comes to weather. Fact-based meteorology is more reliable. But still, it sure felt like this was the hottest temperature any of us could recall in...
Sonoma vineyards in June after record winter rain 2017
After three consecutive years of record drought, record rains in NorCal in the winter of 2016/2017 have left excess moisture in the ground and created enormous canopies in the vineyard. Extra time and labor, and therefore money, is being expended to keep the vineyard...
Hail storm in the vineyard in June in Sonoma
The weather on Sunday got a little crazy in Sonoma as a rain and hail storm raced across from Bennett Valley and Kenwood in Sonoma to St Helena in the Napa Valley. Even during the last three very bad drought years, we almost always get a brief spite of rain around...
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