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Vintage Jackson

My son finally arrived yesterday morning, which means that the OIV series will have to be put temporarily on hold. I do expect to make tomorrow’s talks on Winery Costs and Profitability, so check back then for info on building and financing inventory, size distribution and market niche and their affect on profitability, financing premium [...]

Pinot Tasting Results

The tasting was a great success and nearly all of the wines were wonderful (two were corked unfortunately, one more than we “deserved” given industry rates). As should be expected with a field selected mainly from the Russian River Valley, the appellation dominated the tasting. There were some surprising results from the tasting however, with [...]

Wine and Immigration

There have been a number of news stories on the effects of immigration on the wine industry the past few days.
The first story I read, on Sanluisobisbo.com and written by the Associated Press, does a good job of putting a human face on the plight of recently laid off vineyard workers. In an interview with [...]

Conti

Eric Asimov writes about Domaine de la Romanée-Conti in his latest post, and relates some of the astronomical prices DRC wines are commanding in New York ($2400 a bottle). The site he links to for information on DRC is interesting and well written, though the author falls prey to some remarkable anthropomorphic hyperbole, even by [...]

Meet Jackson

Soon after I started this winery blog last November, long time readers will remember that we found out Candace was pregnant. Last week we went to Prenatal Peek in Windsor and had some very cool 4D ultrasound pics and movies taken.
I highly recommend Prenatal Peek. We weren’t able to get good photos the first [...]