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Predicting Tannins and Color in Wine

Last May I wrote about the very interesting work of a UCD grad student named Kirsten Skogerson. This week she and Dr. Roger Boulton released a spreadsheet with their predictive model baked in. In essence the model promises to allow rapid analysis of phenolics such as tannins and anthocyanins (red and purple pigments responsible for [...]

Capozzi Winery in Second Life

I was going to wait a bit until we were completely set up, but Second Life has been in the news quite a bit today so I figured now was as good a time as any to unveil our plans for a winery in the virtual space known as Second Life.
While we won’t be the [...]

Behold, A New Wine Innovation: Babydoll Sheep

Canvas Ranch in Petaluma is offering a novel solution to the problem of high labor costs, labor shortage and the desire to grow wine grapes organically. Babydoll Sheep.
The sheep are a great deal at $2000 per, and the benefits of having a couple 24 inch, cloven hoofed walking weed eaters appear to be numerous. [...]

A Winery First: Invest in Halleck Vineyard via Micro-lending

Ross Halleck, a newer and well regarded Pinot producer who works with Russian River Valley grapes, is inviting anyone with some cash to spare to invest in his winery. He’s attempting to raise $25,000 in cash to fund their expansion from a few hundred cases to around 1500. I’d say more, but Halleck does a [...]

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 [...]