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Recap and Photos from a Deliciously Wet Weekend

Since Thursday night, we've had nearly seven inches of rain at Tablas Creek. We're up over 11 inches for the year, and ahead of what we'd expect on our average 28-inches-per-year pace. Even better, this rain has been spread over four

Putting the Vineyard to Bed for Winter

We're enjoying the warm weather after our first winter storm passed through last night. It dropped about an inch of rain on the vineyard, and the wind completed the defoliation of the vines begun by the two weeks of frosty nights in late November. This is a quiet

Vin de Paille: A Dessert Wine Making Technique for the Obsessed

We're making Vin de Paille this year for the first time since 2007. For those of you who don't know (we don't make much of the Vin de Paille, and it generally doesn't make it into distribution) Vin de Paille is a

A New Harvest 2010 Photo Essay

We've just published a photo essay, including photographs taken between October 25th and November 5th of this year. The late harvest and the accompanying lower sun angles have been wonderful for photography. Enjoy the photo below (which screams "the bounty of harvest" to us) and find

Harvest, weeks of October 18 and 25: Hurry up and wait.

In the last two weeks, we've harvested another 99 tons, mostly of Grenache (37 tons), Mourvedre (29 tons) and Roussanne (14 tons). The weather has alternated between sunny and warm and cool and cloudy, with a little rain on the 23rd and a little more this past weekend.

Getting close to harvesting Mourvedre!

We got a new camera at the vineyard today and I decided to take it out into the vineyard to break it in. It struck me how much progress the vineyard has made in the last few weeks, particularly in the varieties like Mourvedre and Grenache that seemed a long

Harvest, weeks of October 4 and 11: What else? More crazy in 2010.

In the past two weeks since my last harvest report, we've had our two largest-ever harvest days, three days that topped out near 110, two days of rain that topped out near 60 and a week-long pause in harvesting, and the resumption of beautiful weather that

Notes from the Cellar: Harvest 2010 Begins! (AKA Fruit and Football; It Must be Fall)

By Chelsea Magnusson Experts claim that the (official) first day of autumn is September 22nd. Typically, I hate to disagree with expert opinion, but my first day of fall was yesterday. Supporting evidence includes the fact that Sundays and Mondays are now spent watching football, but the primary reason for

Notes from the Cellar: Assembling the 2009 reds, and getting ready for harvest 2010...

By Chelsea Magnusson The cellar has been an absolute mess this week. And for good reason - veraison has begun in the vineyard, and we are slowly wrapping our heads around the fact that another harvest season is right around the corner. It looks like a disaster, but I promise, it&

Veraison 2010!

And... (drumroll please) we have veraison for 2010. It's actually less far behind than we were expecting, more like one week than the two weeks we were late at flowering. [As points of comparison, I wrote about veraison on July 27, 2007, July 30, 2008 and July 24,