It's Official, We're a Winery! It's almost unbelievable but after months of questionnaires, finger printing, background checks, trademark battles, and registering with about a dozen government agencies, we're legit, and can start selling wine under...

So it's perhaps a sign of my arrested development but I have to share the best entry in the Healdsburg police report this week. This is why I love my home town. kind of. And I SWEAR this is verbatim from the paper. Healdsburg Police Log Friday,...

In the summer of 2006 I undertook a project that was the first of its kind in the wine world. It was a mashup of winemaking and what we now call social media. I called it Pinot 2.0. I know, cute but the whole 2.0 thing hadn't quite jumped the shark...

Early the other morning I headed out to the Mononi vineyard in the Russian River Valley with Arista's Mark McWilliams to check out the Pinot noir. It was the final day of picking the fruit from Mononi with hot air balloons hovering over the vineyard,...

In the proper wine biz tradition of spending money only on what really counts, I had a funny realization the other day that the two new barrels we were transporting in a borrowed truck were worth much more than the truck itself. Thanks for the the...