It’s that time of year again when the fruit on the vines is ripe and ready for picking! It’s HARVEST SEASON!
Up in California, our 2022 (insert varietals) grapes are being harvested, de-stemmed and pressed for juice before our fermentation and aging processes begin.
“I don’t really drink Chardonnay”. If you’ve said this without trying all the different styles of chardonnay, you are truly doing yourself a disservice.
You’ve probably heard us say this, but great wine starts with great grapes. Great grapes come from great farming practices. For example, did you know that oftentimes wineries that are making high quality wine practice what is called fruit thinning?
DON’T… that’s it. That’s the blog… All jokes a side it’s really not that great of a pairing. Sure you can do it. There’s sweet sparkling wines or champagne that will work with sweet chocolate and esoteric dry sparkling that may work
If you’ve ever been to a tasting room, you’re pretty familiar with the experience. You book a tasting, show up at the reserved time, enjoy the tasting, buy bottles, or join the wine club. When we open our doors on November 27, 2021, the experience will be very similar.
We’ve made great progress on our tasting room and wanted to share how far we’ve come! We are currently on track to open in November and will announce the grand opening date in the next two weeks!
Have you ever looked at a bottle of wine in the store and saw the words “dry” or “off dry” and passed on it because you didn’t want anything that would leave your mouth too dry? What about champagne? What are your thoughts when you see extra brut?
You’ve probably eaten some pretty delicious dishes at fancy schmancy (yes… schmancy), restaurants and thought to yourself, “it can’t get much better than this”. Well my friend, we’re here to tell you that if those meals didn’t have wine paired with each course, it does get better… a lot better. In fact, one could arguably say that
You hear it all the time. “Look at the legs” as they hold their glasses in the air and twirl them around looking at the tear drops rolling down the bowl. Many people, consciously or subconsciously, equate a wine’s legs to a wine’s quality. This is a mistake.
You’re in the mood for steak and you’ve heard that steak and wine were made for each other. You go grab a random cut from the market, a bottle of red wine, and you feel like you’re set. The question is, are you really though?
