https://www.sonocaia.com Down To Earth Exceptional Wine from Sonoma Fri, 08 Sep 2023 01:05:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.8 https://www.sonocaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/cropped-cropped-gravatar-32x32.png https://www.sonocaia.com 32 32 https://www.sonocaia.com/what-happens-in-sonoma-when-the-harvest-is-done/ https://www.sonocaia.com/what-happens-in-sonoma-when-the-harvest-is-done/#respond Wed, 30 Nov 2022 21:05:38 +0000 https://www.dysfunctionalfamilywinery.com/?p=5038 What happens in Sonoma when the harvest is done? The very last tank of grapes has finished fermenting. The tank is drained of wine and placed in barrels (that liquid is called the “free run”). Then the remaining fermented grapes in the tank are moved into the press and gently squeezed (and the result is called […]]]> https://www.sonocaia.com/what-happens-in-sonoma-when-the-harvest-is-done/feed/ 0 https://www.sonocaia.com/sagrantino-tasting-panel-with-wine-industry-pros-and-collectors-in-sonoma/ https://www.sonocaia.com/sagrantino-tasting-panel-with-wine-industry-pros-and-collectors-in-sonoma/#respond Sat, 15 Oct 2022 20:54:16 +0000 https://www.dysfunctionalfamilywinery.com/?p=4846 Setting up for a blind tasting of Sagrantino Wine is to be enjoyed. Everyone gets to decide exactly what they like. Wine labels, the setting, the food, the mood; everything influences how we feel about a particular wine. A genuinely blind tasting is the closest we can get to objectively measure one wine against another. […]]]> https://www.sonocaia.com/sagrantino-tasting-panel-with-wine-industry-pros-and-collectors-in-sonoma/feed/ 0 https://www.sonocaia.com/summer-in-sonoma-farming-summerfest-and-rodeo/ https://www.sonocaia.com/summer-in-sonoma-farming-summerfest-and-rodeo/#respond Mon, 19 Sep 2022 18:07:03 +0000 https://www.dysfunctionalfamilywinery.com/?p=4820 After religiously posting every month for several years, it’s been nearly five months since I last posted. Below are some brief stories about farming, the Sonoma Int’l Film Festival Summerfest, and a local Rodeo. In the next few Sundays, we’ll look at Sagrantino through the lens of our trip to Umbria Italy. Then we’ll have […]]]> https://www.sonocaia.com/summer-in-sonoma-farming-summerfest-and-rodeo/feed/ 0