In a daring leap of faith, central coast zinfandel grower Sylvester Dusi and his son Benito raised the price of their wine by ten cents a case. Dusi zinfandel went from $5.90 a case to $6.00. They held their price at $6.00 a case for fifteen years—from 1959 to 1974. ...

New York has been getting more than their share lately of the winter weather, but that hasn't stopped wineries like Vizcarra Vineyards from being busy. Part of the same crew who run Becker Farms in Gasport, New York, this crew... Continue...

Winemaker Scott Huffman celebrates the start of our harvest last Tuesday with the wonderful sparkling wine of our neighbor over in Dundee, Argyle. This marks Scott's twenty-fourth vintage here in the Willamette Valley. The grapes are pinot noir from our Boisseau Vineyard...

This morning we are picking our Boisseau Vineyard pinot noir on the Chehalem Mountains and this afternoon start with our Lafayette Vineyards pinot noir here at the winery. Everything is ready to pick now so it will be a race to get everything in the winery as soon as possible. We can expect a lot of late nights as we process all the fruit and get it in the fermenters the same day it's picked...

Many of you are familiar with Hawks View Vineyards because of our very highly regarded Vineyard Designate from that vineyard. Now you can get a closer look at what makes Hawks View an outstanding vineyard from their website. Please visit them at: http://www.hawksviewvineyard.com/index.cfm...

Harvest season brings long days to our crew. The work day often goes from dawn to the middle of the night and sixteen hour days become the norm. At Anne Amie we want to be sure our crew is well fed during these long days and twice a day we sit down for a home cooked meal. Menus ranges from American to Italian and Mexican cuisine as we try to please everyone. Pictured here the harvest and office...

At the crack of dawn this morning our pinot gris arrived from the Del Rio Vineyard in southern Oregon. We whole-cluster press our pinot gris, meaning that the entire bunch of grapes goes into the press. This process, while very time consuming, yields a more brilliant and explosively fruity pinot ... are almost as dark as our pinot noir grapes.  Pictured left are pinot gris grapes just before they go...

This morning the grapes arrived from the Deux Vert Vineyard, our close neighbor here in the Yamhill-Carlton AVA. As you can see from the photo above (pinot noir clone 1018) this vineyard produced fabulous fruit this year. Like most of the vineyards in this area, Deux Vert has yielded a crop with good quantity and the unique combination of high sugar and high acids. The perfect weather...

Let's just say so far it has caused a lot of worry and a few sleepless nights, but the last two days of showers seems to have caused few problems. Pictured above you see the showers crossing the coast range heading towards our vineyards at 3:30 this afternoon. Yet after a couple of days ... through our Lafayette pinot noir vineyard. A little water is probably good at this point as after months...

... attention instead of spreading its energy over too big of a crop. Our goal is a maximum concentration of complexity and vineyard character in our wines and too large of a crop dilutes those characteristics. That means that our vineyards are littered with bunches of grapes we have cut from the vines ... : a bunch of pinot noir on the rock-hard dry-farmed Willakenzie soil of our estate Lafayette that made...