I can't believe it is already *%#@! Wednesday and I still haven't posted any pictures from the Calaveras Grape Stomp! With profound apologies to those with slower bandwidth, here they are at last. The Twisted Rackettes (Carla and Heather...

I just can't keep up with all of this... Fermento of the ever-swelling head as interviewed on local vidcast The Pine Tree: 768k version150k version56k version More on the Calaveras Grape Stomp results soon...

Fermento, along with Ironstone Vineyards top guy Stephen Kautz, did a grape stomping demo at the Arden Fair Mall in Sacramento today to promote the upcoming Calaveras Grape Stomp this weekend. The cameras from local NBC affiliate KCRA were rolling...

... but need to "lay off the slosh sauce" for a bit? You could drink grape juice, especially now since Welch's 100% Concord grape juice has been listed as a top anti-oxidant containing food , but then, you're just drinking grape juice. Navarro Vineyards , located in the Anderson Valley in coastal Mendocino, has been growing grapes and making wine since 1974, but they also make grape juices from the same...

Where are my manners? I did promise... busy day at the winery, and it's going to get busier from now on. Tomorrow we get our first lot of the Rolleri Vineyard Tempranillo, source of our mainline Tempranillo. The next day...

Chardonnay is a green-skinned grape varietal used to produce white wine. Historically believed to have been named after the village of Chardonnay in France, it is also known by the names Aubaine, Beaunois, Melon Blanc, and, historically Pinot Chardonnay. Famous for it’s minerally whites from Burgundy and in the great Champagnes of France, today Chardonnay [...] More info at www.catavino.net...

Pronounciation: Pick-a-pole Other known names: Picpoul, Folle Blanche, Piquepoul, Gros Meslier, Picpoul, Folle Blanche, Avello and Picpoule Blanc. Historically dating back to the 17th century, Picapoll is a grape varietal native to the Languedoc area of France that has currently found its way to the northeast portion of Spain in Catalonia. Found as a red, white and [...] More info...

How often do you go googling for something rare and unheard of only to find several references with the exact same description cut and pasted from one site to the other? In the end, you have no clue as to who first posted on the subject as opposed to who conveniently stole content from the original article. Thus was my problem when researching a new grape I stumbled across, Sumoll. It had been...

Happy New Year! After a longer than expected hiatus, we are back. The end of the vacation from the blog (and things like work) is prompted by: a. real life schedule and b. Corie Brown's article on Mendoza and Paul Hobbs in this Sunday's LA Times.  As life is not ...