Dear Friends, As always it is a struggle to come up with a topic for the newsletter. This year I harken back to when I was a young only child, my parents fretted that I was not socialized enough, so every summer my older, sophisticated city cousins would be invited to Trinity to be immersed […]

Dear Loyal Customers, My apologies for missing a year in our newsletters, but wow what a year it was… It started with me fancying myself as a bronc buster comparable only to Booger Red with the tenacity of Tom Mix. Having watched almost every western ever made, surely made me an expert in every way. […]

Father had the great advantage of history behind him when it came to his superlative newsletter story telling. So as I look back I realize that his great writing skills weren’t based on his enormous talent ,, no,, it was based on the great depth of characters, he had to write about. My epiphany is […]

PRELUDE: DAD HAD ONE MORE NEWSLETTER IN THE QUEUE BEFORE HIS PASSING, SINCE MY WINEMAKING SKILLS ARE CONSIDERABLY STRONGER THAN MY WRITING SKILLS; I DECIDE TO DELAY YOUR DISENCHANTMENT OF ME FOR ANOTHER YEAR. SO WITHOUT FURTHER ADO HERE IS HIS FINAL NEWSLETTER: It is not uncommon for winery visitors to ask why I haven’t […]

As the days of my 85th year draw to a close I find myself wresting with a paradox: just where the hell were these idyllic storm free winters when I was pruning grapes seven days a week? Just to confirm that my mind hadn’t gone south along with my hearing I offer the following from […]

Hey, if the county sent out their tax bills as late as this newsletter you’d be ecstatic so we don’t want to hear any more complaints. Besides, last winter threw us completely off schedule. It was so bitterly cold that it stopped all of our fermentations and delayed bottling by months. That’s our story and […]