This Blog posting today has nothing to do with wine or grapes, except perhaps to be thankful for the freedom to pursue our dream because we live in America. Norm’s son, Matt, is a Petty Officer E-8 in the U.S. Navy, the chief medical officer...
As reported by our Vineyard Association’s General Counsel, this morning the California Superior Court posted a lawsuit filed on 3 September by the “San Diego Citizenry Group” (SDCG) against the County of San Diego requesting that the Tiered Winery...
I thought this posting by another writer in the Wine Spectator, was timely and excellent. Timely because my dear friend Ann L’Heureux passed 5 years ago last week of breast cancer.Two new studies find that multiple factors are involved when it comes...
Norm has a trailer fetish. He is always admiring various sorts of utility trailers, and already has quite a collection.He has a Teardrop Travel Trailer that he built 35 years ago, which is how we met in 2004. But that’s another story, I also have a...
This is not a treatise on the chemistry of testing grapes and wine, but more of a litany of complaints on our limitations regarding this aspect of the process. As I have often mentioned, if I’d known there was so much chemistry involved in wine making, I...
