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A Bordeaux Primer

I received a great email from Morgan yesterday with this article attached and had to share it. Morgan is currently over in France right now working harvest at Chateau Lynch Bages in Bordeaux.
It’s a long article, so I’ve split it up in to a couple posts. I’ll publish the second part over at Wine [...]

111 Tons!

Bumper Crop!
111 tons is 30% over what the pessimistic pater familias predicted and 20% over last year’s record harvest. Talking with Jenaro it seems that the reason for the huge surge in crop size is that we lost very little to mildew this year and some of the poorer performing vines on the Northern [...]

Get Your Learn On - Ampelography

The fine folks over at the Trellis Alliance have released a new series of lectures from the June Grapevine Clean Plant Workshop. They are using a Macromedia product called Breeze that allows you to view the slide, the lecturer and to hear the audio all on the same page. It is very cool tech and [...]

Harvest Halfway Over

Our sparkling wine grapes are halfway picked at this point, and all is well. For farmers like us harvest marks the end of the season and it’s a time to celebrate. So far with a little over half the vineyard done we have 49 tons already picked and delivered to Gloria Ferrer.
Comparable to last [...]

Conceptual Drawing of Capozzi Winery

A very rough drawing of the winery viewed from near our property line is to the right. The brown squares along the open face are trellises that will be planted to rose bushes. You can also check out a picture of the floor plan here.
Next week we’ll be taking these drawings up the hill to [...]