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Passing on an email I received from Paul, the owner of Still Waters in Paso Robles, CA. Wine Makers, We just finished barreling down our 2022 Red wines. Due to the short crop, we have some very nice used 55 gallon French oak barrels for sell. They are $1300 new and have been used for two...

Greetings home wine makers! Due to the fact that I have a shit ton of wine, my main goal this year was to minimize quantity and maximize quality. Hence, these are my…… 2021 Wines Merlot: 125 lbs. from a very respectable East Paso Robles vineyard / winery. This will be used as both a blender...

Would've loved to have shared a meal and glass with her. https://www.wine-searcher.com/m/2021/08/au-revoir-becky-burgundy-legend?utm_source=wine_searcher_news&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_campaign=25%2F08%2F25&utm_id=newsletter

My wine bottles are simple – no capsules, no labels, just Sharpie markered. I usually write the vintage and varietal at bottling, then mostly the grand kids beauty them up with multi colored Sharpies. Gives them something to do. Plus, we’re El Dorado County country AF, is the main reason...

I was in a local wine making supply house the other day (Paso Robles) and chatting with the crew (imagine that) when Mega Purple was mentioned, and it got me thinking: Why isn’t this product a home-gamer staple instead of the pariah it seems to be (there I said it). I am quite sure that some...

A Sierra Foothills legend. https://sacramento.newsreview.com/2021/07/22/california-says-goodbye-to-the-godfather-of-barbera/?fbclid=IwAR3YGoLAlyHtFmo--B1D_yd3rEQDCXgqSLB7DhkxOrEqrmM-71CtDJE9IZs

Random California ramblings. Attached are some pictures from this morning of a few vineyards in San Luis Obispo. Fruit is forming nicely. It’s pretty shocking to compare the Central Coast AVA vineyards (3 to 4 tons per acre) with the Central Valley high production vineyards (8 to 10 tons per...

Some pictures of vineyards in my neighborhood around the SLO / Edna Valley / Arroyo Grande area from today show that flower season is here and that the hermaphrodites will soon be self-pollinating. Here is a google earth screen shot of just a very small area of West Paso Robles – lots of...

These pictures are all from either West Paso vineyards or Levo winery in Tin City. As with the SLO pictures, you’ll see a bush vine vineyard here (Zinfandel). These pictures were taken within an hour or two of the SLO shots, so you can see the weather variation between regions, which are...

Greetings! Made the rounds yesterday to some local vineyards in Edna Valley (SLO), Templeton and West Paso, talked to some vineyard managers, and swung by Tin City in Paso to talk to a few wine makers and taste their work. Since each post is limited to 10 pictures I’ll do these in two posts...

Bottled 4 cases of Rose' a couple weeks ago - a bit earlier than usual due to family gatherings & requests. It turned out great and won't last through the summer unless I ration it out, not even close. This was produced with nothing added - no SO2, commercial yeast, nutrients, clearing, fining...

In few other business’s would someone spend hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars starting a venture with no idea as to the quality of their product or their ability to sell it. But such is the wine business in the Central Coast of California. There are hundreds of Vanity Vineyards and...

Greetings from the Central Coast of California! I’ve been making wine for only 10 years, but I’ve watched my family make wine my whole life – in the SF Bay Area, Italy, and Slovenia. Typically, we only process around 1,000 lbs. of grapes per year; some we pick, some we buy already harvested –...