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Hot Time Summer in the Cellar

What do we do in the cellar during the summer…especially when there has been no harvest? Usually, the spring and summer months are filled with blending, finishing and bottling the white wines from the previous year. July and August are taken up with emptying barrels, blending and finishing the early-to-bottle red wines, Pinot Noir, Gamay,…

Burn Baby, Burn

Nope, not referring to oil discovery, but to biochar… Biochar is the end product of a process used to reduce organic waste. In our case, the waste is the dead vines that we had to pull out this year as a result of a one-in-50-year event in January 2024 which saw temperatures plunge to below…