Our firefighters are once again proving to be #heroes. As many of you have heard, on Monday morning, a lightning strike in the eastern hills of Napa Valley started a #wildfire now known as the #HennesseyFire. We are encouraged by the overnight developments that the growth of the fire has slowed and the fire is Read the full article…

An update from our friend Jon up at Angwin Estate Vineyards: “Checking light exposure on the 2020 fruit. Beautiful small berries with just enough shatter to allow the dappled light to kiss each one. Continual canopy adjustment means perfect exposure right up to harvest”

2020 Growing Season Recap by Justin Leigon, Viticulturist at Davis Estates The first autumn rains came a few days before Thanksgiving 2019, bringing small amounts of precipitation throughout the Napa Valley. By the end of the month, only ~2 inches of rain had accumulated. Early December 2019 continued with the same pattern and was only Read the full article…

If you are walking the vineyards of Napa Valley in August, you might see the rows littered with grapes. What gives! Those grapes make great wines, yes? Of course. But “thinning” – the process of dropping some fruit – helps the quality and development of the remaining fruit. As with everything we do in the Read the full article…