Winemakers Notes.
I love writing my newsletters. I send them out three or four times a week and you can sign up for them below (if the pop up didn’t already get you). But occasionally I have the urge to write about something that goes beyond the confines of an email. A longer format piece that’s infrequent, personal, and intended to shine a light on something that’s affecting my winemaking world. This is where you’ll find them.
I Love Harvest!
I love harvest. Probably more than I should given how tough it can be, but every year I leave a young family and travel more than 1000 miles to get there so it’s a good thing I do. I always feel like it gets a bit of a raw deal in the media though. Everything is dominated by instant gratification click bait and formulaic vintage reports. There’s no soul, there’s no passion and harvest is absolutely bursting with both. I appreciate these are intangible, ethereal emotions but without them no combination of perfect terroir and temperate summers will ever result in a perfect wine. There is magic in the wineries during harvest, and I want more people to know about it.