Category Archives: What’s going on in the VINEYARDS?
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Milt vs. Bear – and other Harvest Adventures
By Else Ahlmann 21 October 2024 0
October 7, 2024 MILT PREPARES FOR BATTLE Over the years, the bears have consumed tons of grapes in our vineyards, and Else’s Vineyard is hit particularly hard b ...
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A Word on California’s Vintage 2020 and Smoke Exposure
By Christian Ahlmann 17 September 2020 0
You may have noticed that 2020 brought some smoke to the west coast this fall, an almost welcome distraction this year from news of the pandemic, the election and the ...
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How to Grow a Grapevine from Cuttings
By Christian Ahlmann 28 March 2020 0
[caption id="attachment_7255" align="alignnone" width="3024"] Newly potted grapevine[/caption] The plants in the picture were sticks on a dormant grapevine a few weeks ago. G ...
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2019 Harvest
By Else Ahlmann 2 November 2019 2
PART 1. Maybe you read Christian's 2019 Pre-Harvest blog, where he reflected on things that can go wrong before the grapes make it safely into the fermentation tan ...
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