I was Google-ing around and came across this post from last year by Alder at Vinography. Aside from giving my neighbor Joseph Swan great scores across the board, he also had this to say about our AVA in the comments section: For my money, most of the Sonoma Coast and Russian River Valley appellations produce [...]

Dr. Vino posted an extremely interesting photo from Google Maps of Chateau Haut Brion’s vineyards being engulfed by the city of Bordeaux. And here I thought Napa Valley was getting bad…

I happened upon a new wine site yesterday called corkd. Corkd stores a database of your wine and gives you an opportunity to rate and review the wine and then share it with other users. It also allows you to keep track of your wine buddies’ cellars and their reviews. Edit: They also have a [...]

As is usual this time of year there’s a flurry of entry level crush intern positions open. Below is a list jobs that entered the pipeline just today. If you are interested in breaking into the industry, have some winemaking experience (even if you don’t sometimes) and/or posses a chemistry background, you could do worse [...]

To the right is a rough-up of what I’ll be taking back to our architect later this week. Some interesting features starting from the top: * The covered shed and receiving areas were added later in the design process, but are a pretty fantastic idea. Basically the roof will continue past the end of the [...]