Yesterday we had 27 wonderful buyers and volunteers here to harvest 3,300 pounds of Petite Syrah grapes. It was VERY hot. 90 at 9 a.m. There are another 600 pounds out there that the buyers will come to pick next Saturday. We were done by noon...
A paper written some time ago by our friend Lum Eisenman on Judging Wine, talks about the consumer oriented competitions and the Davis 20-point system to judge wine – originally devised to expedite bulk-wine transfers between wineries (like...
Cucamonga was the first true home to the earliest vineyards planted by the Spanish missionaries moving northward from Mexico into California. Long before Napa, Sonoma, the Central Coast and other well-known and respected appellations, Cucamonga vineyards were home to...
One of the instructors from the Mira Costa College Wine Technology Program, a well respected grape and wine expert from this area, came to visit this morning. Pete Anderson and another friend who makes wine toured the vineyard and we had...
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...
