I almost fell backwards off the ladder and onto my ass. My involuntary yelp startled the forklift operator who reflexively reached halfway out of his cab to pull the emergency stop on the conveyor belt. The grapes piled up accordion style, then came to a brisk halt. Everyone was looking at me. I had barely [...]
Wine blogger Keith Hoffman at Brain Wines updated his review of our 2008 Doctor’s Vineyard Pinot Noir after re-tasting the wine recently. Here’s what he said back in November 2009: Nose: Crisp, plum-steeped, spring water. Elegant leathers. Light lavender. Violets. Candy. Taste: Clean, amazingly so. Smooth plum and light spice. Mature earth. Mature cherry. Perfect structure and sexy mouthfeel. Overall: [...]
Last week, we had a blast blending our 2009 Rockpile Zinfandel. Check out our short video below. If you can’t see the video, please click here. P.S. If you need a refresher on the origin of the galette references, please click here.
Sure, Kerith can run a half-marathon in under 1:45 and burn through 1,500 calories. Shoot, anyone can do that. But it takes a real competitor – a man’s man – to ingest that many calories in the short time between dropping your wife at the starting line and picking her up at the finish. And I am just [...]
I really enjoyed my month long anesthesia vacation, I mean “rotation,” during my surgical internship. It was a nice break from general surgery. Nobody threw sharp instruments at your head when you misidentified a blood vessel. The hours were better. You could flip through a trashy magazine, hidden inside the cover of the New England [...]
I’ve never had a 100-point wine. I’ve had a slew of wines that have scored in the 90-94 point range (which fall into the Outstanding category) and even a few that have reached 95 or 96 points (which are considered Classic). But I’ve never had a 100-point wine. A lot of people, especially inside the wine industry, discount [...]
In an upcoming post, I’ll be regaling you with the enthralling story of winery compliance and state and federal registration. In the interim, we thought you’d all enjoy seeing this fabulous sign which is legally required to hang right outside our front door for the next 30-days in order to register our home office. And for [...]
Check out a brief video of this year’s pinot noir blending session below. If you can’t see the video, please click here. By now you all know that blending is the art of winemaking. As you blend, taste, and spit, you strive to craft a composite wine that outshines each component individually. What one wine lacks in [...]
The pinot noir was tepid and so was the sauvignon blanc. The bucolic serenity of sprawling grapevines harmonized with guttural spews of exhaust. A serpentine parade of FedEx trucks stretched from the “Welcome! Tasting Room Open!” sign on the gravel road to a nearby storage shed, each transport vehicle awaiting full palates of wine shipments. [...]
For those of you who may think that winemaking is a glamorous gig, our winemaker Clay Mauritson proves otherwise in this great shot from the 2009 harvest. You’ll be drinking that pile of de-stemmed fruit in just a few short months – it’s our 2009 Rockpile Zinfandel! As a reminder: With summer travel in full swing for [...]
As you recall from Part I, we’re moving our production to Mauritson Wines in 2010. Next up in this series: Sourcing Premium Wine Grapes (or, can Kerith bake our way to another 90-point wine). Under our previous winemaking arrangement, choosing grapes was simple – all we had to do was select from a menu of pre-arranged vineyards. [...]
Wine Wednesdays: we’ll drink the wines so that you don’t have to. Happy summer to all. We at Bruliam Wines are thrilled to announce the highly anticipated return of our greatly lauded summer fluff series. Good Morning American brings you a summer concert series, and I spew discordant logorrhea, every single week. Rejoice loyal readers; [...]
The girl who bikes next to me in spin class graduated from the same local high school as I. We finished maybe five years apart (plus or minus 15 years). When I get amped up over the extended Cure / Depeche Mode remixes that carry us over 17 minute “hill” excursions, her eyes glaze over. [...]
This morning, if all goes according to plan, we will pull out of our driveway at 5am in the Swagger Wagon, cruise through LA downtown traffic at 6:45am, and make it over the Tejon pass and down to our Starbucks stop at the southern tip of the central valley around 8:30am. By the time you [...]
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