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/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/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/iconic-sebastiani-family-vineyards-returned-to-glory/ https://www.sonocaia.com/iconic-sebastiani-family-vineyards-returned-to-glory/#respond Wed, 03 Jun 2020 15:02:20 +0000 https://www.hydeoutsonoma.com/?p=2838 Hydeout Sonoma was selected by one of the arms of the historic Sebastiani wine family to return two iconic vineyards to their former glory. But it almost takes a secret Sonoma decoder ring to explain the vaunted family history, players, vineyards, and wines.]]> https://www.sonocaia.com/iconic-sebastiani-family-vineyards-returned-to-glory/feed/ 0 https://www.sonocaia.com/sonoma-wine-country-organic-vs-conventional-farming/ https://www.sonocaia.com/sonoma-wine-country-organic-vs-conventional-farming/#comments Fri, 21 Feb 2020 21:48:25 +0000 https://www.hydeoutsonoma.com/?p=2587 Organic grape and wine farming: Thanks to the support from all of our Hydeout Sonoma vineyard clients, we are a 100% organic farming operation. As this debate continues, I invite you to take an in-depth look at the differences between conventional and organic. Let’s start with some revealing imagery: Next, let’s debate the topic: with Roundup, one […]]]> https://www.sonocaia.com/sonoma-wine-country-organic-vs-conventional-farming/feed/ 8 https://www.sonocaia.com/sonoma-barn-owls-and-sonoma-social-tidbits/ https://www.sonocaia.com/sonoma-barn-owls-and-sonoma-social-tidbits/#comments Sat, 28 Sep 2019 16:24:24 +0000 https://www.hydeoutsonoma.com/?p=2421 Sonoma Barn Owls and social tidbits…we’ve lost many grapevines, three years in a row, to damaging gophers. The gopher population is out of whack. Hard to say why? Maybe not enough snakes? We don’t want to use poison or traps, so what’s the better option? Owls! (not interested in Owls? Scroll down for Sonoma social […]]]> https://www.sonocaia.com/sonoma-barn-owls-and-sonoma-social-tidbits/feed/ 9 https://www.sonocaia.com/iconic-sonoma-cabernet-vineyard/ https://www.sonocaia.com/iconic-sonoma-cabernet-vineyard/#comments Sat, 20 Jul 2019 12:25:24 +0000 https://www.hydeoutsonoma.com/?p=2323 I will soon be sharing images of the re-construction of an iconic Cabernet vineyard in the next blog post. But while we wait for the newly planted vines to grow, please enjoy this short sampling… This is the project we’ve been working on all summer, with old vine Zinfandel and new Petite Sirah and the recently […]]]> https://www.sonocaia.com/iconic-sonoma-cabernet-vineyard/feed/ 5 https://www.sonocaia.com/sonoma-harvest-2018-part-1-the-night/ https://www.sonocaia.com/sonoma-harvest-2018-part-1-the-night/#comments Sun, 30 Sep 2018 13:03:27 +0000 https://www.hydeoutsonoma.com/?p=1866 Here is your Sunday Morning just before brunch wine podcast. While you were sleeping, Sonoma Valley was hard at work harvesting wine grapes at night. You might ask, “hey Ken, what’s it like to prepare for a night harvest?” I’ll tell you…Are the grapes ready?, where is that lab report?, where are the lugs and bins?, […]]]> https://www.sonocaia.com/sonoma-harvest-2018-part-1-the-night/feed/ 6 https://www.sonocaia.com/new-york-wine-client-sovare-visits-sonoma/ https://www.sonocaia.com/new-york-wine-client-sovare-visits-sonoma/#comments Sun, 08 Jul 2018 01:45:25 +0000 http://www.hydeoutsonoma.com/?p=1732 Hydeout Sonoma has many wonderful clients. Our New York-based clients, owners of the Sovare label, came into town to taste their 2017 vintage. Sovare is an estate hillside vineyard near Sonoma Mountain comprising equal percentages of Cabernet, Sangiovese, and Zinfandel.  Hydeout Sonoma took over management of the vineyard in 2015. At that time the vineyard […]]]> https://www.sonocaia.com/new-york-wine-client-sovare-visits-sonoma/feed/ 6 https://www.sonocaia.com/farming-sonoma-vineyards-organically/ https://www.sonocaia.com/farming-sonoma-vineyards-organically/#comments Sun, 10 Jun 2018 13:10:39 +0000 http://www.hydeoutsonoma.com/?p=1670   Farming Sonoma vineyards organically is expensive and time consuming. And it makes the wine more expensive too. Why? One of the biggest risks to vineyards around the globe is mold and mildew. Mildew spores over-winter in dormant cane buds and under bark. For season-long control, the vineyards must be sprayed. But with what? Traditional […]]]> https://www.sonocaia.com/farming-sonoma-vineyards-organically/feed/ 10