If you are a winemaker, it helps to be an optimist. After all, like all farmers, your livelihood directly correlates to the whims of Mother Nature. Have a good growing season and the chances are good that your harvest will come out the way you hoped and planned. Have a summer filled with heat spikes Read the full article…

Napa Valley has just wrapped up on a vintage that is being described as legendary, elegant, delicious, dynamic and age-worthy—and it’s all covered in SOMM TV Napa Valley 2023 Vintage Report, streaming now for free viewing! Watch winemakers Renée Ary of Duckhorn Vineyards, Shaina Harding of Gaderian, Matt Crafton of Chateau Montelena Winery and Macario Read the full article…

The 2023 harvest is winding down in most of the Napa Valley, as growers report outstanding grape quality.  Read Jesse Duarte’s wrap up at https://napavalleyregister.com/news/community/star/napa-valley-grape-harvest-wine/article_db95d542-780e-11ee-8606-cf9a8fb86016.html    

It looks like we are in the final stretch of what has been a very, very long grape growing season! Timothy Milos, from RD Winery, gives an update on the final grapes coming in and what he is seeing in the taste and nature of the grapes.

It’s been a busy week for Napa Valley grape growers, who are bringing in the last of their 2023 fruit. Tom Rinaldi expects St. Helena growers to be done by Halloween. Correspondents further south offered similar assessments.   Read the full report here.