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A trip to the Printer, an Eco-Printer!

Date: Tue, Feb 2, 2010 Winery Blogs Wine Business

In five years we've now had 3 different printers, but I think I've now found one we'll stick with! Last year we switched because I received an email from a group that was certified "Imprim'Vert" which is an eco certification...

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Snow and Pruning 2010!

Date: Fri, Jan 15, 2010 Winery Blogs Wine Business

Well the pruning hasn't gotten off to a stellar start here in southern France. The first weekend of January we were supposed to be out pruning according to the bio-dynamic calendar, but I had a nasty cold, and Matt wasn't...

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Happy Happy Merry Merry!

Date: Thu, Dec 17, 2009 Winery Blogs Wine Business

We're off to London for the Holidays! All the best to you and yours!

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A visit to Sitevi - Playground for winemakers and wine growers!

Date: Thu, Dec 10, 2009 Winery Blogs Wine Business

Last week was the bi-annual trade show called SITEVI (not sure what that stands for to be honest!). It's a huge event, farmers and winemakers come from all over southern Europe to check out the latest in farming equipment and...

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Barrels, barrels, barrels

Date: Thu, Nov 26, 2009 Winery Blogs Wine Business

People often ask me why we don't age more of our wine in barrels, well the answer is two, maybe three fold. First and foremost, I am not a fan of oak. There's nothing worse that tasting a young wine...

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Amazing bloggers, new faces and old...

Date: Thu, Nov 12, 2009 Winery Blogs Wine Business

Last weekend I was in Lisbon, Portugal for the 2nd Annual European Wine Bloggers Conference, better known as the EWBC. Many of you will remember I went to the first EWBC last year in Logroño, Spain, well, I decided I'd...

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Hand Made Wine

Date: Mon, Oct 26, 2009 Winery Blogs Wine Business

Every little bit counts right? Well it seems we took that to the extreme this year. Since the weather was beautiful and our Mourvedre seemed to be hanging on, I wanted to leave it as long as possible this year....

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All three colors this year!

Date: Wed, Oct 7, 2009 Winery Blogs Wine Business

I forgot to share the very exciting detail that we have made wine in all three colors this year! Small quantities of white and rosé (500 bottles of white and 700 rosé) but we did it!! The white which is...

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2009 is in the tanks!

Date: Wed, Sep 30, 2009 Winery Blogs Wine Business

That's it, we're pretty much done with 2009 harvest. We pressed off the syrah tank last weekend, so it's all resting hopefully getting ready go through malo-lactic fermentation before it gets cold! For now though, the weather is divine! For...

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And the harvest begins!

Date: Tue, Sep 1, 2009 Winery Blogs Wine Business

We've picked the Roussanne and some grenache to make rosé! Not a lot of time to chat right now, but here's some photos and a short video of pressing the Roussanne grapes. Making white is a lot more work for...

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Don't fence me out!

Date: Mon, Aug 24, 2009 Winery Blogs Wine Business

A few years ago I wrote, what I thought at the time, was a funny post about judging the ripeness of the grapes by when the boars started eating them. Last year when they pretty much cleaned out our roussanne...

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This is not Napa - Redux

Date: Fri, Jul 31, 2009 Winery Blogs Wine Business

Lately I have been once again reminded how different winery visits can be in France as opposed other parts of the world. A couple of weeks ago we decided to have an open house and invited two other small producers...

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Meet Elmo, our newest La Gramière team member!

Date: Mon, Jul 20, 2009 Winery Blogs Wine Business

Here he is! It's been a couple of weeks since we picked him up now and he's fitting in very well. On a bit of a whim we decided that Daisy needed a playmate and Elmo just happened to be...

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It's already July??

Date: Wed, Jul 1, 2009 Winery Blogs Wine Business

This month just flew by. The past 3 weeks I've been home for a total of 4 days! Busy, busy busy here! The vines are growing, growing, growing, and suddenly it's HOT!!! 35 degrees for the past few days. Ugh....

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