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/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-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 https://www.sonocaia.com/dysfunctional-family-winery-launches-online/ https://www.sonocaia.com/dysfunctional-family-winery-launches-online/#respond Fri, 27 Nov 2020 17:28:21 +0000 https://www.hydeoutsonoma.com/?p=3074 The launch of Dysfunctional Family Winery: Exclusively for our blog post readers, in time for the winter holidays, Dysfunctional Family Winery announces the launch of our online presence – providing our blog subscribers with the first opportunity to purchase our wines. Subscribers are being offered an instant 20% discount on all orders for the holidays. […]]]> https://www.sonocaia.com/dysfunctional-family-winery-launches-online/feed/ 0 https://www.sonocaia.com/the-smoky-grape-harvest-of-sonoma-2020/ https://www.sonocaia.com/the-smoky-grape-harvest-of-sonoma-2020/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2020 16:22:46 +0000 https://www.hydeoutsonoma.com/?p=2998 A smoky harvest like no other… Pandemic, wildfires, smoke, and riots. And who can forget the electromagnetic solar pulse that destroyed the electrical grid! While all this mayhem has been going on, the Sonoma wine industry has been grappling with a grape harvest like no other. While firefighters fought blazes across the west, growers attempted […]]]> https://www.sonocaia.com/the-smoky-grape-harvest-of-sonoma-2020/feed/ 0 https://www.sonocaia.com/wine-label-press-check-and-other-sonoma-farm-news/ https://www.sonocaia.com/wine-label-press-check-and-other-sonoma-farm-news/#respond Fri, 21 Aug 2020 19:16:12 +0000 https://www.hydeoutsonoma.com/?p=2913 A good photo essay of a wine label press check.]]> https://www.sonocaia.com/wine-label-press-check-and-other-sonoma-farm-news/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/dysfunctional-family-wine-shelter-in-place-delivery/ https://www.sonocaia.com/dysfunctional-family-wine-shelter-in-place-delivery/#respond Fri, 08 May 2020 13:17:42 +0000 https://www.hydeoutsonoma.com/?p=2764 What can a winemaker do to ease the shelter in place burden? Hand deliver wine, of course. Members of our growing ‘Dysfunctional Family’ wine community receive their bottles of wine, sometimes in a direct handoff, sometimes over the fence. This was in early April 2020 before masks and gloves! And it’s also a photo travelogue […]]]> https://www.sonocaia.com/dysfunctional-family-wine-shelter-in-place-delivery/feed/ 0 https://www.sonocaia.com/sonoma-farm-life/ https://www.sonocaia.com/sonoma-farm-life/#comments Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:24:48 +0000 https://www.hydeoutsonoma.com/?p=2645 Farm life in Sonoma]]> https://www.sonocaia.com/sonoma-farm-life/feed/ 5