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Cause and Effect
Four years of extreme weather conditions have impacted the wine industry. Dry, warm conditions, along with freak rain and hail storms and of course the drought have all taken their toll. Just taking a...
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Thanksgiving
It is hard to turn off the ‘noise’ in a world that is literally exploding all around us. We live in a time of instant news, twitter, facebook, blogs and news feeds constantly bombarding us with the...
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Dare….if you will
Leave it to one of the best story tellers of our time, Francis Ford Coppola to bring an intriguing new experience to Sonoma County with his Virginia Dare winery. When I first saw the name go up on the...
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Drone on
Every time I see a drone it makes me think of the sinister U-2 single jet engine spy plane era during the cold war, those sleek long winged planes with cameras mounted on the under belly so as to take...
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Re-Directing
It has been awhile since my last blog…we have had a few things on our plate! Kirsten and I have been discussing the possibility of relocating to our home on the vineyard up in the Alexander Valley for...
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Anticipation
Every growing season has its ups and downs. Each season leaves its mark and no two are ever the same. Every single day in the vineyard adds to the DNA that will help define the characteristics of the...
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Earth, Wind, & Fire
My prior post touched upon how no two days in the life of a vineyard are the same and how one really has no control of Mother Nature. Now this harvest season has finally ended for us and I must say...
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“The Sky Is Falling”
There is an old folk tale “Henny Penny” which you might remember as “Chicken Little”. This is the tale of a chicken who proclaims that ‘the sky is falling’ and thus the world must be coming to an end....
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Sustainability
I am so thrilled to now be working as a Creative Consultant to the Sonoma County Winegrowers! It is exciting for me to be involved with so many iconic wine growing families in the county who have for...
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Renewal
First of all, thank you for being patient! It has been awhile since I last blogged as last year was full of interesting twists and turns with a whole new set of challenges. The catastrophic fires in...
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