We are having a big sale.

More here:
You heard it here first: 50% off sale

Tags: its-while, estate-cabernet, price, meritage, pinot-noir, sale-preview, mountains, sauvignon, petite-sirah, winery, santa-cruz, rhone-blend, holidays

The Lockeed Fire in the Bonny Doon area of the Santa Cruz Mountains has me thinking about smoke taint in grapes. The fire has been raging for over a week (it’s close to being contained, thankfully) and even though we are located more in the valley, the skies are smoky. I am certainly not worried about our Estate Vineyard—the fire is definitely too far away.

View post:
Fire and Smoke Taint in Grapes

Tags: family, lockheed, from-the-winery, winery, chardonnay, santa-cruz, valley, thoughts, wine, fire, vintage, year

Outside of wine, I have only worked in one other industry—high tech. So I don’t have a lot of other outside industry knowledge to compare—but I am constantly amazed at the number of wine industry associations that are out there and that we are a part of

Read more:
Associations

Tags: winery, time, santa-cruz, mountains, wine, santa, monterey-county, free-the-grapes

If necessity is the mother of invention, then it can also be the genesis of a wine. In 1995, our winemakers were wondering what to do with a few barrels of wine that were not quite good enough to be included in the release of our 1993 Santa Cruz Mountains Estate Cabernet Sauvignon

More:
The Mercury Rising Story: The Evolution of a Proprietary Blend

Tags: release, century-french, wine, from-the-santa, cinnabar, california, mountains, mercury, winemakers, santa-cruz, over-the-years, mercury-rising

Tags: chile, price, president, news, country, deals, power, saturday-night, european, california, napa-valley, santa-cruz, night, wine