Harvest 2011 Recap {Tablas Creek}
Harvest 2011 finished on November 9th with a flurry of activity, including at one point 62 different bins of grapes scattered around the winery and on the crushpad, waiting to be destemmed. My favorite part of the photo (blow it up to see it) is the bemused look on Ryan’s...
Raynold’s Has Spoken! {Alta Colina}
Josh Raynolds of Stephen Tanzer’s International Wine Cellar was back in town and his notes on our 2009 wines are in! 2009 marks our third vintage and the Grenache and Toasted Slope Syrah are already available for purchase. We will release the GSM around January and the Mourvedre and Old...
Fall in the Vineyard {Halter Ranch}
Check out Halter Ranch’s stunning property: http://blog.halterranch.com/2011/11/15/fall-in-the-vineyard/
Meet Winemaker Terry Culton {Adelaida Cellars}
Adelaida Winemaking Meet winemaker Terry Culton! He joined the Adelaida Cellars team in 2003 after a tenure at Calera Wine Company. Twelve years earlier, Terry began his career at Wild Horse here in the Paso Robles AVA where he worked with fruit from the fabled Hoffman Mountain Ranch. Upon...
Fall 2011 Vineyard News {Zenaida Cellars}
Harvest is underway, kinda… It is mid-October as I write this quarter’s newsletter, and I’m wondering if it is all going to happen. Usually the column for this newsletter is one of the hardest to get done. It is due to the fact that I am juggling ten things at...
Tablas Creek: Why Paso Robles will make CA’s Best Wines in 2011!
Last Thursday, as I was driving down to a couple of events in Los Angeles, I received an email (clearly addressed to a larger distribution list) from Tim Fish of the Wine Spectator. Tim was soliciting photos of inundated vineyards, rotted grape clusters or other signs of damage from the...