We put together the final Sauvignon Blanc blend.  It was interesting to taste all the different lots we had.  They came from two different vineyard blocks, and the three different picking dates and then among those lots you have stainless steel barrel fermentations and oak barrel fermentations.  It’s always fun to see how they all [...]

Just before Christmas in December, we racked our two Merlots and Cabernet Franc after malolactic fermentation.  We like to get them a little breath of fresh air and get them off the heavy solids (a by-product of the malo fermentation), then get them back into barrel. Later in January we racked the Dead Fred Cabernet [...]

In Marketing and sales, we took a trip to Orlando and Vero Beach in Florida at the end of January. We spent the first day in the Vero Beach area.  First we went to Fort Pierce, to meet Keith Andersen who has a legendary retail shop called Roy’s Liquors.  It’s great to meet folks like [...]