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Garage Winemaking – Part deux

Garage Winemaking – Part deux

  (Continued from Garage Winemaking – Part 1) Harvest day is a labor intensive day, reaping the bounty of a season’s hard work of tending, pruning, and trellising the vineyard. The rain came and went and our friend Beau had arrived for the week of […]

Garage Winemaking – Part 1

Garage Winemaking – Part 1

Exactly two years ago, I started documenting Dave’s garage winemaking adventures with his friend Beau Mora from Temecula. Dave found a local vineyard through a connection at Corvallis Brewing Supply called Borgo Pass Vineyards. If you ever have a chance to stop by the store, […]

Harvest Wives, You’ve been warned

Harvest Wives, You’ve been warned

This marks my first season of being a harvest widow. Three years ago, when we left California for Dave to start his enology studies at Oregon State University, I never really processed what it would mean for me to be married to a winemaker and […]

Quit your job and become a winemaker

Quit your job and become a winemaker

Just a little over three and a half years ago, Dave and I were living in Murrieta, CA (Temecula wine country) and decided to take a road trip up to Napa with our then 6 month old daughter. Who knew that this little trip would […]