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Weather & Climate

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A Change in the Weather

This morning, you could feel a change in the quality of the air. After weeks of dry weather, the air feels softer, the sunlight, filtered through the moisture, less intense. The hillsides around Tablas Creek are almost impressionistic, each range layered more dimly than the next. It's a

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

Fall in Vermont

This essay, sent in from Vermont, is the next in an occasional series of articles by Robert Haas. After a rainy Vermont summer (was that summer?), fall has arrived with the leaves just beginning to turn color, apples ready to pick and the garden mostly put away for the winter

I see trees of green...

I was struck as I walked back from the vineyard toward the winery today by the different shades of green in the landscape. The grapevines really stand out in the landscape, yellowy-green and very lively-looking. The olive trees which we use to line the roads are grey-green, the lombardy poplars

Early impressions of the cool 2009 early summer

So far, except for a scorching hot weekend that (of course) coincided with the 2009 Paso Robles Wine Festival, it's been cool. Days typically have been topping out in the mid- to high-70's, with relatively frequent cloud cover at night. Normally, by June, we're

Paso Robles Big Sky

I spent an hour or so rambling around the vineyard on Monday to get a sense of to what extent we'd been hit by the frosts the mornings of April 25th and 26th. It looks like the damage was serious -- the worst that we've seen

The real differences between eastside and westside Paso Robles

I've gotten a series of questions recently, mostly from people inside the trade, asking me some variation of the question "so, you're pretty far west in Paso Robles, right? That must mean you're cooler than a lot of those big eastside wineries."