September 2, 2017
We are gathering pine needles from our trees we use them for acid compost as our desert needs more acid for the soil and the vineyards love them....
August 29, 2017
We were talking to Bill and Gretchen Lochen the winery owners on how when we used to help process the wine about 15 years ago how we did everything by hand we did use a small distemer that would launch rocks at us if there happened to be a rock in the grapes which happened often , all outside in the...
August 29, 2017
Zinfandel is the grape that does the best in our environment, but they are also difficult as the ripen so unevenly you have raisens next to green grapes and then there are some pea size and then giant....
August 20, 2017
We dropped off the first half of grapes in our 1986 chevy farm truck it's a 454 and Michael loves it. It also had no problem hauling the over 1800 lbs of grapes. We are going to harvest the second half of the vineyards within the next week....
August 20, 2017
We have been working three hours and we already have one ton I think it's going to take us two days . I'll never complain about wine costs again....