August 3rd, 2011
Central Coast . Grape Harvest . Harvest 2011 . Vineyards . Vintage Notes . Viticulture . Wine . Winemaking
Winemaking
August 3rd, 2011
Central Coast . Grape Harvest . Harvest 2011 . Vineyards . Vintage Notes . Viticulture . Wine . Winemaking
July 28th, 2011
Blogging . Emma Pearl Wine . Spicy and Smoky . Tasting Notes . Travel . Vineyards . Wine Bloggers Conference . Wine Tasting . Zesty and Fruity
Wine Bloggers Conference 2011; A Winemaker’s Perspective…
Last Friday I attended the Wine Bloggers Conference 2011. This was one of those events that really brought out why the wine industry is so amazing! So many people in one room that were all excited to learn about and discuss topics pertaining to wine. Unfortunately I was only able to attend the Friday sessions ...
May 6th, 2011
Emma Pearl Wine . Essay writing . Grapes . Masters of Wine . MW exam . Souverain . Travel . Vineyards . Viticulture . Wine . Wine Blogging . Winemaking
Crazy Times: Notes on Blogging, Vintage 2011, Winemaking, and the MW exam…
To my returning readers, my apologies that I have been unable to get a post up for the last two weeks but my life has been insane between full-time winemaking, an on-going house renovation project, a 50 mile bike ride for Diabetes research and my MW studies. To my new readers…Welcome to the Personalities of ...
April 5th, 2011
Charleston, Greenville and Beyond!
I’ve arrived back in CA after a whirlwind trip back to my home state of South Carolina. Unlike previous visits this was a business trip selling wine. My first trip of it’s kind and I thought it was quite appropriate that it was taking place in SC. The first day of the trip which I ...
March 22nd, 2011
Airline Travel . Emma Pearl Wine . Travel . Trellis Systems . Vineyards . Viticulture . Wine . Wine Tasting . Winemaking . Zesty and Fruity
Layovers and Trellis Systems!
So today marked a milestone in my career as it’s the start of my first official Sales Trip! This trip is for my new brand Emma Pearl however the day so far has been less than pearly. I decided for reasons that still escape me to not leave out of the tried and true San ...
March 14th, 2011
Alexander Valley . Barrels . Bud Break . Sonoma County . Souverain . Vineyards . Viticulture . Wine . Wine Tasting . Winemaking
Wine Trails and Weeping Vines
I spent a good bit of my Saturday at the Asti Winery tasting room for the Barrel Tasting Weekends for the Northern Sonoma County Wine Roads. This included an event for Dry Creek, Russian River, and of course my stomping grounds the Alexander Valley. I love events like this because I was able to talk ...
February 28th, 2011
Art . Wine . Winemaking
Is Wine an Art???
I’ve had this blog post in the drawer for weeks thinking that it would be something that no one but me would be interested in debating. Apparently I was wrong. I read this post this morning on Vinography and it inspired me to publish it. http://www.vinography.com/archives/2011/02/a_short_conversation_between_w.html From my viewpoint as a winemaker as well as ...
February 25th, 2011
Alexander Valley . Bud Break . Grapes . Sonoma County . Viticulture
Vintage 2011- The First Report
So here we are again, standing at the precipice of another vintage. The next 6-7 months will shape our fruit for this year. What the year will bring is anyone’s guess. So far it seems to be moving along early as we had almost two lovely weeks in the upper 60’s and 70s in early ...
December 10th, 2010
Organization . Wine . Wine Tasting . Winemaking
The Top 5 Essential Tools of the Professional Winemaker (that no one would have ever thought were important)
I feel sometimes that I get caught up in working and doing my job that I forget there are rather interesting things that I absolutely can not make wine without that most of the non-winemaking public would scratch their head over. Thus in order to lighten things up on the blog a bit I present my “Top 5 Essential Winemaking Tools” list.
November 22nd, 2010
Bottling . QA/QC . Wine . Winemaking
Going Bottle Ready!
Now that harvest is over and all the new wine is happily going through ML or has already been sulfured our winemaking attention is turned towards making blends for bottling. We do this year round however it always seems to reach a peak around this time of year because bottling has been drawing off blends we made way back in June and July while harvest was happening. Now with the holidays upon us distributor stock is at a year round low because people buy up wine at Thanksgiving and Christmas for family meals and get togethers. This makes January a big bottling month to try and replenish the reserves. In thought, putting a blend together is not that hard. You take all the lots of wine that you’ve already previously
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