Sign in Subscribe

Topic

Vineyard

A collection of 405 posts

Tablas Creek Wetland Area

At the end of January, we finally completed our new wetlands project. The project, in response to a new California law requiring wineries to treat their waste water before releasing it into the environment, consistes of a series of ponds designed to filter runoff water from the winery while breaking

Getting Ready to Plant "Scruffy Hill"

After a five-year hiatus in planting, we're getting ready to begin again, at the deliberate rate of 5 acres per year over the next five years. This will allow us to gradually build our capacity from the around-16,000 case level we are now (on 80 acres) to

Drying Out

We're drying out here at the vineyard after receiving about 8 inches of rain over three days, culminating with nearly 5 inches on Monday, January 2nd. Gusts of wind topped 40 miles per hour. It looks like there was remarkably little damage from such a strong storm; we&

First Major Winter Storm Expected for Paso Robles New Year's Weekend

We're getting ready for the Central Coast's first major storm of the winter season, which we expect to dump 2-3 inches of rain onto the vineyard on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. The cover crop has sprouted, and the hillsides

Olive Harvest

The last vineyard event of the year is typically our olive harvest. The mission olive trees that line our vineyard roads were planted primarily as decoration, but they produce olives that are good both for oil production and for curing and eating. We plan to do both this year. Right