Part 3 of a series
Just days before harvest, I visited one of our Extreme Sonoma Coast vineyards with Sonoma Coast Vineyards’ winemaker, Anthony Austin, to walk with him as he showed us what he looks for in the fruit. In this first of several videos in the vineyard, Anthony talks about the color of the [...]
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Posted by Pat
I always love this time of year. In the middle of crush, the smells of harvest are everywhere. The winery is full of wines fermenting in tanks, barrels and plastic open top fermentors.
One thing that many people wonder about is what happens to the grape by-products that are not used in making the [...]
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Posted by Marco
I’ve been meaning to post this for a while, but between bottling and harvest it’s been tough finding the time to sit down and type.
We talk all the time about the importance of maintaining the proper crop load in our vineyards. We toss around terms like thinning, green drop and canopy management. I [...]
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Posted by Marco
We’ll be wrapping up the sauvignon blanc harvest this week. The quality looks really nice and to everyone’s surprise, the yields haven’t been quite as low as we all originally feared. While the spring frosts did have some effect, it was not dramatic for Sauvignon Blanc.
The same may not be the case for [...]
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Posted by Marco
The wonderfully mild weather we’ve had in the last month has allowed for the gradual ripening of what looks to be a relatively small but intensely flavorful crop of grapes.
The first to ripen is our Sauvignon Blanc which is already exhibiting flavors of gooseberry and melon with floral notes. We’re planning on harvest [...]
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Posted by Marco
Well, it seems appropriate that my first posting on the blog should relate to a first out in the field. I was out checking vineyards yesterday and saw the first signs of verasion this year.
What’s verasion, you ask? It’s when we see the first color show up in [...]
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