After fermentation, most wines spend anywhere from several months to a a year or two aging, generally in oak barrels. This isn’t just tradition, oak aging makes wine taste better. The most importan...
HARVEST 101 It’s a common saying in the industry that creating wine consists of two months of frantic wine making (that’s harvest) and ten months of wine selling. This year (2023) the Sta. Rita Hil...
COOL CLIMATE WINES But why does a cool climate matter so much? Great wines taste delicious when they have the perfect balance between acid, alcohol, and sugar (which turns into alcohol through ferm...
THE HISTORY OF WINE Wine is old! The earliest records of grape wine production have been traced back to ~7000 BC in what is modern day Georgia, in Eastern Europe. Archaeologists have also found evi...
HOW ARE WINE GRAPES DIFFERENT, AND WHY DOES THAT MAKE DIFFERENT WINE? The differences in how a wine tastes comes from the differences in the grapes' chemical & biological structures, ...