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Found Food Photos: Miner's Lettuce

As those of you who have been following the blog regularly know, we've had a wet winter this year. These last two weeks have been a beautiful interlude in the rainy weather, but we're excited to see the return of the el nino-influenced pattern next week,

Vineyard pruning 2010, and a chance to fill in missing vines

With a letup in the rain that is supposed to last about a week, we're taking the opportunity to get out into the vineyard to prune where we can. In addition to allowing us to shape the vine and control the next year's yields, pruning stimulates

Photos from a break in the week of storms

It's been pretty wooly out here the past few days. We've had three storms in three days. The first storm, on Sunday afternoon, gave us about half an inch of rain and some winds up around 30mph. Yesterday's storm was bigger, with about an

The Gathering Storm: A Preview of a Potentially Historic Week of Weather

As those of you who have been following the blog regularly know, 2009 was our third consecutive year of drought. Among the drought's other impacts, we have seen yields decline each of the three yields, and in 2009 will make nearly 40% less wine than we did at

Why you trellis Syrah

So, I was out taking some archival pictures this morning of the face of the winery that will soon disappear as we start the construction on our winery expansion (more on this in the next few weeks). We're building on the east side of our winery: the side

Enjoying fall foliage while putting the vineyard to bed

This is a deceptively quiet time of year. We aren't harvesting any more, but we're still pressing off some red lots in the cellar and only a few select lots have actually finished fermentation. In the vineyard, we're doing anything we can to help

Harvest 2009 Evaluation and Recap

The 2009 harvest is done. In the barn. Finally. At 64 days (beginning September 1st and ending November 3rd) it was our second-longest harvest this decade. The only longer harvest, 2004, also saw the end of the harvest delayed by rain. The weather during harvest was challenging, to say the

October 13-14 Pacific Storm Recap and Assessment

So, we're picking up the pieces at Tablas Creek after a storm that dropped an amazing 9.6 inches of rain on us in a little more than 24 hours. To try to contextualize how unusual this storm was for us: * This is more than half the rainfall

A truly scary weather forecast

We've been fortunate with our weather during harvest for the last four years. Each year starting with 2005, whatever the conditions during the spring and summer, we've had beautiful autumns, without serious heat spikes and without any significant rain. That's one of the major

Harvest, Week of September 28th: A Change in the Weather and Worries about Yields

If you've been following our 2009 harvest report, you'll know that we'd been hoping that the vintage would turn out to be a little more plentiful than the last two drought-reduced crops. Perhaps this was wishful thinking, given our third-consecutive below-average rainfall winter. But