It’s Not Just The Weather The 2010 growing season is now being called the worst-ever harvest. Sonoma seems to have gotten the worst of it. Because the fruit was on the vine longer than normal, and the rainy season has begun, a lot of the fruit has suffered from mold. Some vineyards have suffered 100 [...]
A Crazy Year for Wine Just like California and Oregon, the Washington State wine grape harvest has been delayed – by about 2 weeks. The harvest reports that have come in are all very positive. The cooler temps, and longer time on the vine have made for very flavorful fruit. While California growers worried about [...]
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2010 Could Turn Out to be One of the Best California Vintages in Years It was touch and go in August and September when vineyards were reporting that grapes were not ripening due to the unusually cool summer. Growers were worried that leaving the fruit on the vine until October could be disastrous if the [...]
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Wine Harvest Begins While California’s wine harvest is in high gear, the folks on the east coast are batting down the hatches in preparation of the pending hurricane. From South Coast Today: Earl Threatens a Rare Year Ripe for Pinot Noir September 02, 2010 WESTPORT — On a broiling morning under a cloudless sky, Bill [...]
