"Durell is special because it's at the confluence of so many different forces of nature," says Ryan Prichard, winemaker at Price’s Three Sticks Winery. Wind and fog rolls in from both the Pacific Ocean and the San Francisco Bay at Durrell; the soils vary from sandy loams to ancient roc...
Located at the valley’s widest point, Rutherford receives more sunlight during the day than other parts of the valley. This, combined with a wide variance of daytime to nighttime temperatures (average fluctuation of 12 degrees in the summer months) allows the fruit to ripen at a steady pace...
West Wind Vineyards farms 230 acres of owned and leased grapes along with custom vineyard growing for other landowners. Our grape varieties include Concord, Niagara, Edelweiss, Marquette, Gruner Veltliner, Riesling, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Fredonia, Diam
Sanger sequencing was used to determine virus isolates in vines at different GPGV infection levels, to test their respective influence on symptom expression. Yield and GrapeScan (FTIR) analyses were conducted to test the impact of different GPGV infection levels and isolates on fruit quantity and ...
For many years, all their wines were made at Chappellet Winery located in the hills east of Rutherford and also at Laird Estate, just north of the city of Napa. However, their own winery was completed towards the end of 2015 and all production has been moved on site. The winery is rais...
We fondly refer to a clustered collection of our extraordinary grower vineyards as the “Côte de Jordan.” Situated in the center of the Alexander Valley appellation just east of Geyserville at the base of the Mayacamas Mountains, these 40 vineyard blocks dot the region’s coveted benchland ...
At the highest elevation of 1,490 feet the loess deposit is as little as two feet over fractured basalt. Descending the slope northward to the 1,200 foot level, loess deposits increase in depth to over 15 feet, marking the approximate maximum elevation of the Missoula floods and resulting ...
the wind warms up coming over the South fork and for Cabernet, a late season ripener, that makes all the difference. Usually we pick late October or early November, but it’s a race between that and the first killing frost.” I’d plan to follow this for at least eight or ten year...
We’re always looking at new vineyard sites and varieties, and alternative winemaking styles to keep our wines interesting and exciting. OUR HISTORY elimination, hibernation, resurrection. Many great wines were made in the Bendigo area during Victoria’s boom period of the 1800’s. Sadly, some...
What is now the edge of San Pablo Bay is located at about 20 miles south of Porter Family Vineyards. Millions of years ago, muddy or marshy section of land near the bay or an inlet from the ocean perfectly preserved this bird’s footpints. When discovered, the boring tunnel was approxima...