Taking the Long Road with Jamie Kutch of Kutch Wines
Jamie Kutch has become one of the most respected producers of California Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. For a former Wall Street trader, it’s been an unconventional journey.
Harvest
Napa Harvest Weekend for RARECAT Ambassadors
by Jennifer Curry Sharon Kazan Harris, owner and director of winemaking at RARECAT Wines (a boutique winery producing wines in Napa, Bordeaux and Champagne), has an innovative vision for her Ambassador program: Creating opportunities for wine enthusiasts that fulfill lifelong dreams of working for a winery and experiencing the winemaking process. Kazan-Harris launched the RARECAT …
Harvest Begins in Paso Robles Wine Country
Photo Source: Halter Ranch Vineyard We received an update on the current crush from Paso Robles thanks to Solterra Strategies. Winemakers from Adelaida Cellars, Alta Colina, kukkula, and Halter Ranch were interviewed (full disclosure: all clients of Soleterra Strategies) about the fact earlier harvests are becoming a kind of new normal. The interviews below were …
New Zealand – Exhilarating Wines from a Pristine Land
The idyllic country of New Zealand is made up of two little drops in the ocean, two unspoiled islands in the South Pacific.  New Zealand is the most isolated country in the world and the last habitable land mass on earth to be populated. Even today, only five percent of the population are people, the …
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What it’s Like to Work a Wine Country Harvest
First off, I think perhaps this should be titled “How to Survive Crush.” Second, while working in a winery seems amazingly fun, and eternally romantic for most people, the reality is…it is romantic and fun and totally rocks! (You thought I was going to say it’s drudgery, wink wink). There’s no denying that harvest is …