Weather & Climate

Every year, there's one day where all of a sudden it feels like spring.  This year, that day is today.  After a week of storms, and a month and a half of cloudy, wet, cool and often cold weather, today the sun is out, the air is soft

In an ideal world, we wouldn't receive five inches of rain on one of our three busiest tasting room weekends of the year.  But we're not complaining.  We're now up over 31 inches of rain for the winter, topping last year's total

We're in an intermediate sunny period between two winter storm systems, which is exactly what we want at this time of year.  We've been worried about how advanced the local flora was, so having alternating rain and cold serves the twin purposes of continuing to replenish

After about a month of rainy weather, the sun has come back out at Tablas Creek.  And we're thrilled with the rainfall we've received; we're over 17 inches of rain so far this winter, about 175% of normal at this point of the year,

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 days, giving it