We recently went to Yountville to catch up the Taylor Abudi, viticulturist at Markham Vineyards in Napa Valley, to see where the 2024 vintage is headed. It looks like we have a break in the summer heat for a while which is really good for flavor, ripeness and tannin development over the next few weeks. Read the full article…
Hope Goldie – Vice President, Winemaking at Darioush in Napa Valley – met up with us in the vineyard last week to check in on the 2024 growing season in Napa Valley’s wine country. Hope is farming with a little more canopy this year to give the grapes just a little more sun protection as Read the full article…
We get asked this question all the time: Is this year’s vintage later or earlier than “Normal”. It’s a harder answer than it might seem (what is normal?), so we asked Andrew Opatz, the Director of Vineyard Operations at Chappellet Vineyard to give us a quick update on where the 2024 vintage is compared to Read the full article…
As we all eagerly await veraison to start in Napa Valley, we asked Linda Neal of Tierra Roja Vineyards to explain their morning side canopy management vs their afternoon side canopy management. Here is Napa Valley, we know how to throw some serious shade.
We met up with Scott Young at his vineyards at Young Inglewood Vineyards last week and, while spring is always a scramble, he says they are all caught up and looking good and waiting for the next stage – veraison! Veraison is when the grapes stop growing in size and start to actually ripen into Read the full article…
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