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We're Number 39! (a.k.a. an analysis of Thanksgiving wine drinking patterns, courtesy of CellarTracker)
Filed under: Food & Wine, Wine Blogs

CellarTracker is a fascinating tool. It is the world's most successful Wine 2.0 site, with over 66,000 registered users, 10,000,000 bottles entered into inventory, and over 700,000 user-written tasting notes. ...

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Posted 13 hours ago by jasonchaas
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Thanksgiving Wine Suggestions - Tablas Creek and Otherwise
Filed under: Food & Wine, Other Wines We've Loved, People

We've always felt that Tablas Creek wines make great pairings with Thanksgiving meals. The Rhone whites (particularly those based on Roussanne) are rich enough to stand up to turkey or ...

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Posted 8 days ago by jasonchaas
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Autumn Vineyard Photo Essay, Part 6: Winter's Approach
Filed under: Autumn 2008 Photo Essay, Pretty Pictures

Without particularly intending to, I realized that I'd taken several vineyard photos that showed the approach of the winter season through a chilly quality of the light and a selection ...

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Posted 11 days ago by jasonchaas
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Autumn Vineyard Photo Essay, Part 4: Grenache
Filed under: Autumn 2008 Photo Essay, Pretty Pictures

Our Grenache section is always one of the most beautiful in the vineyard. Grenache vines are vigorous, and provide satisfyingly thick trunks from even fairly young vines. The leaves are ...

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Posted 12 days ago by jasonchaas
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Autumn Vineyard Photo Essay, Part 4: Seeding the Cover Crop
Filed under: Autumn 2008 Photo Essay, Pretty Pictures

There's not much to do in the vineyard at this time of year. You need to wait for everything to go fully dormant before you prune, and once harvest is ...

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Posted 13 days ago by jasonchaas
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Autumn Vineyard Photo Essay, Part 3: Relics of a Challenging Vintage
Filed under: Autumn 2008 Photo Essay, Pretty Pictures

2008 was a challenging vintage. As I described in my 2008 vintage assessment, we saw issues with late frosts in the spring, early frosts in the fall, low yields, shatter ...

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Posted 14 days ago by jasonchaas
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Autumn Vineyard Photo Essay, Part 2: Near and Far
Filed under: Autumn 2008 Photo Essay, Pretty Pictures

One of the things that I always love to try to capture in my photographs are the perception of distance. It's a challenging thing to try to translate the wide ...

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Posted 15 days ago by jasonchaas
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Autumn Foliage in the Vineyard
Filed under: Pretty Pictures, Vineyard

One consequence of the end of daylight savings has been that I'm at the vineyard at the end of the day a lot more often. At this time of year ...

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Posted 17 days ago by jasonchaas
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Challenges in assessing a vintage like 2008
Filed under: Harvest 2008, Paso Robles, Weather & Climate

I had a meeting with the Paso Robles Rhone Rangers yesterday, and while we were waiting for everyone to arrive we spent some time kicking around impressions of the recently ...

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Posted 26 days ago by jasonchaas
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End of Harvest 2008: two weeks of Mourvedre, Roussanne, and Counoise, and a better picture on yields than we'd been expecting
Filed under: Harvest 2008, Pretty Pictures, Vineyard, Weather & Climate, Winery & Winemaking

We're concluding the 2008 harvest today. Yesterday, we brought in 6 tons of Mourvedre, and today added another 2.5 from from a last pass through late-ripening areas where we left ...

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Posted 4 weeks ago by jasonchaas
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