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2025 Harvest Update: A warm August gets things going, then a September cooldown pushes pause

2025 Harvest Update: A warm August gets things going, then a September cooldown pushes pause

Sometimes harvest hits like a ton of bricks. Not this year. We're almost two weeks into the 2025 harvest, and it still feels like things are ramping up. On August 28th, we brought in our first estate lot, off of our oldest Viognier planting.

Introducing the Fenaughty Vineyard, the newest addition to our Lignée de Tablas series... and the Mansfield family responsible for its greatness

Introducing the Fenaughty Vineyard, the newest addition to our Lignée de Tablas series... and the Mansfield family responsible for its greatness

By Austin Collins With the recent release of the 2024 Lignée de Tablas Fenaughty Blanc and the upcoming release of the 2023 Lignée de Tablas Fenaughty (red) we thought it was high time we shared what makes the Fenaughty Vineyard so special. A big part of this is the remarkable

Veraison 2025: Slow and Steady Wins the Race

Veraison 2025: Slow and Steady Wins the Race

Veraison, if you're unfamiliar with the term, is a physiological stage of grape development where the berries stop accumulating mass and start accumulating sugar. More visibly, red grapes start their color change from green, while white grapes take on more of a yellow tint. Both red and white

2025 Summer Solstice Vineyard Tour: It's Been Average, Which Is Just Perfect

One month ago, I wrote about how we'd exited frost season and entered flowering in ideal conditions. Not too hot, not too cold, not too windy. Just... benign. I'm pleased to report that the last month warmed up, as you'd expect in late May

Two things to celebrate: 2025 frost season ends with no damage and flowering begins under ideal conditions

This past weekend was the Paso Robles Wine Festival, our unofficial end to frost season. For the second consecutive year, it was a picture-perfect day, in the 70s and breezy, with both winter's below-freezing nights and summer's hundred-degree days feeling comfortably far away.

Celebrating the amazing 2025 wildflower season

I was hopeful that the conditions that have been so good for our cover crop growth and which helped keep our vines dormant until a couple of weeks ago would make for an amazing wildflower season. I'm happy to report that this is proving to be true. Witness

Budbreak 2025 Arrives a Week Later than 2024, Showing the Impact of Our Late Rain

As the last few sprinkles of what may be the last serious rain from the 2024-25 winter wind down this afternoon, it feels like an appropriate moment to highlight that the vineyard is also making a visible transition from winter to spring. After last week's warm, sunny

Why our glorious February weather is making us nervous

The past week has seen some of the nicest winter weather imaginable. Days in the 70s. Nights dropping into the 30s but warming up quickly. Ample sun. Combine that with the lovely rain we've received since the beginning of February (8+ inches in all) and it's

Experimenting with Tradition: Vine Training

By Austin Collins There is no doubt that most everything we do in the vineyard has been done before. The invention and implementation of new technology, equipment, and products (fungicides, etc.) bring some novelty to viticulture, but the methods used on the ground and in the vines are age-old.

Putting the cool, dry start to the 2024-25 winter in context

With the terrible fires in Los Angeles still top of mind around the country, I'm guessing that most of you won't be surprised to hear we've had a dry start to our winter here in Paso Robles too. You might be surprised, though, to