https://www.sonocaia.com Down To Earth Exceptional Wine from Sonoma Fri, 14 Nov 2025 23:23:07 +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/year-in-review-in-sonoma/ https://www.sonocaia.com/year-in-review-in-sonoma/#respond Fri, 14 Nov 2025 23:15:28 +0000 https://www.sonocaia.com/?p=9556 Enjoy this pictorial essay of the 2025 vintage at Sonocaia estate Sagrantino winery]]> https://www.sonocaia.com/year-in-review-in-sonoma/feed/ 0 https://www.sonocaia.com/compelling-winery-life-in-the-sonoma-valley/ https://www.sonocaia.com/compelling-winery-life-in-the-sonoma-valley/#respond Thu, 25 Jul 2024 21:33:09 +0000 https://www.sonocaia.com/?p=9106 Fun images about life in the Sonoma Valley that will keep you entertained.]]> https://www.sonocaia.com/compelling-winery-life-in-the-sonoma-valley/feed/ 0 https://www.sonocaia.com/sonoma-land-of-sonocaia-sagrantino-and-1000-things-to-do-and-see/ https://www.sonocaia.com/sonoma-land-of-sonocaia-sagrantino-and-1000-things-to-do-and-see/#respond Sun, 14 Apr 2024 05:06:07 +0000 https://www.sonocaia.com/?p=8977 You need to know what’s happening at Sonocaia Estate Winery – follow us on Instagram @sonocaia At Sonocaia Estate Winery, our primary focus is growing grapes and making wine, specifically our estate reserve Sagrantino, a deep dark yet incredibly drinkable red wine. Find our winery here: Sonocaia home page Learn about Sagrantino here: All about Sagrantino […]]]> https://www.sonocaia.com/sonoma-land-of-sonocaia-sagrantino-and-1000-things-to-do-and-see/feed/ 0 https://www.sonocaia.com/photo-journey-end-of-year-sonocaia-blog/ https://www.sonocaia.com/photo-journey-end-of-year-sonocaia-blog/#respond Tue, 09 Jan 2024 16:19:58 +0000 https://www.sonocaia.com/?p=8877 In case you missed this post, it is a fun review of the holiday season in Sonoma Valley and the Sonocaia winery. Give yourself 10 minutes to catch up with wine country. Warmly, Ken Wornick Join us for a year-end wine country photo journey in our final Sonocaia blog post of 2023: Sonocaia estate – locals […]]]> https://www.sonocaia.com/photo-journey-end-of-year-sonocaia-blog/feed/ 0 https://www.sonocaia.com/farming-and-winemaking-in-sonoma-is-worth-reading-about/ https://www.sonocaia.com/farming-and-winemaking-in-sonoma-is-worth-reading-about/#respond Wed, 07 Jun 2023 19:18:13 +0000 https://www.dysfunctionalfamilywinery.com/?p=5294 Hydeout Sonoma farms grapes, olives, chickens, fruit trees, and bee hives, and is home to owls, bats, rabbits and a wild creek.]]> https://www.sonocaia.com/farming-and-winemaking-in-sonoma-is-worth-reading-about/feed/ 0 https://www.sonocaia.com/farm-projects-at-hydeout-sonoma/ https://www.sonocaia.com/farm-projects-at-hydeout-sonoma/#respond Sun, 14 May 2023 21:50:16 +0000 https://www.dysfunctionalfamilywinery.com/?p=5263 Hydeout Sonoma farms grapes, olives, chickens, fruit trees, and bee hives, and is home to owls, bats, rabbits.]]> https://www.sonocaia.com/farm-projects-at-hydeout-sonoma/feed/ 0 https://www.sonocaia.com/spanish-wine-tasting-wild-swarm-of-honey-bees-and-motorcycling-through-morocco/ https://www.sonocaia.com/spanish-wine-tasting-wild-swarm-of-honey-bees-and-motorcycling-through-morocco/#respond Thu, 13 Apr 2023 17:56:02 +0000 https://www.dysfunctionalfamilywinery.com/?p=5216 Blind tasting modern Spanish Priorat Another fascinating tasting with preeminent host Don Sebastiani at the Swiss Hotel on Sonoma Plaza. Priorat is in Catalona (Catalunya), a region immediately south west of Barcelona, and directly west of Tarragona. It is rough and rugged in the extreme. For most of its wine history, it was a scenic […]]]> https://www.sonocaia.com/spanish-wine-tasting-wild-swarm-of-honey-bees-and-motorcycling-through-morocco/feed/ 0 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/sonoma-valley-grape-harvest-2022/ https://www.sonocaia.com/sonoma-valley-grape-harvest-2022/#respond Sat, 22 Oct 2022 21:44:07 +0000 https://www.dysfunctionalfamilywinery.com/?p=4818 Growing and harvesting the fruit is half the battle. Next up is the winemaking. Every load of fruit is very carefully weighed, by law, so that each grower's property can be carefully tracked all the way into bottle; every drop.]]> https://www.sonocaia.com/sonoma-valley-grape-harvest-2022/feed/ 0 https://www.sonocaia.com/sonoma-wine-tasting-film-food-horses-chickens-and-fun/ https://www.sonocaia.com/sonoma-wine-tasting-film-food-horses-chickens-and-fun/#respond Thu, 14 Apr 2022 19:50:37 +0000 https://www.dysfunctionalfamilywinery.com/?p=4702 This is where I try to convince you to be entertained for a few minutes with little bits of fun from Sonoma –   Blind Tasting: 2013 Napa Valley Cabernets and 2020 Sauvignon Blancs from 5 Countries Many thanks to friend and colleague, Keith Casale, who helped launch this inaugural tasting event at the Hydeout […]]]> https://www.sonocaia.com/sonoma-wine-tasting-film-food-horses-chickens-and-fun/feed/ 0