Good Wine Needs No Bush

January 19, 2014

Or in the Latin version: Vino vendibili suspensa hedera non opus est. Many of you may have heard this saying …

The Wine Thief

January 13, 2014

No, I don’t mean someone who pilfers wine. A wine thief is a glass tool for sampling wine from a …

December 26, 2013

Lees are dead yeast and other particles that precipitate out to the bottom of a vat during fermentation. Lees collect …

November 15, 2013

I mentioned in an earlier post that I do not use oak barrels for fermenting. So what do I use? …

October 28, 2013

Harvest your grapes, dump them into a 2 ton container, and let them sit in the sun waiting for transport …

October 24, 2013

Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. — Macbeth, Act IV, …

October 22, 2013

When one thinks of a winery and wine making, one often imagines wine aging gracefully in oak barrels. And so …

October 10, 2013

Two of the topics I write quite a bit about so far in this blog have been about our renovations …