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Amador county has a great site for getting grapes. It's just up the hill from Lodi. Let me know if you want the link.

Go Hawkeyes!

Hi everyone! I can’t really say that I’m new here as I’ve been following this site for a few years now. Last year I got around to...

Our daughter’s college graduation is coming up next month so I bottled the Twisted Mist Cosmo and Blue Hawaiian summer wines in...

It isn't traditional to glue heads together. When barrels were common for everyday use, the glue of that time was animal based hide glue...

If memory serves, I believe I seen some where they had dowels helping keep the sections aligned. However, I could be mistaken. If u...

Because everything has to be as hard as possible... These heads are not glued together.

Well, the Grenache - which is at the bottom of the hill in my vineyard and which was the first to push this spring - didn’t like 31 degrees…

That same sticky snow really hammered us on Tuesday. I’m on day-three with no power and no anticipated restoration date! Luckily I...

The weather station in Amador county showed 28.8°F last night. Napa showed 32°F. Yikes.

After about 2" of snow and upper 20s F last night, buds look ok! Still green, soft, and leafing. My apple trees weren't so lucky, buds...

Wow San Jose just got a frost warning tonight. Hope my buds survive!

Yikes!! Not what you want to see in the forecast just as buds emerge... Up here in Templeton, I am hoping the weather guys are right and...

It explains why you never see this in a winery.

Hopefully it is too warm to stick to the buds.