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This post, published way back in October of 2008, was written at the height of harvest at Crushpad (if you haven’t already heard the story of my adventures as a cellar rat, you can read more about it here). By far, this post gets more hits than any other on the site! I am so [...]
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Anyone who knows me is well aware of the fact that I really enjoy Pinot Noir. I like plenty of other varietals too, but Pinot will always have a special place in my heart simply because it is “the wine that got me into wine.” In 2006, Joe and I tried an ’04 Lazy Creek, [...]
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Recently, I put together a little photo tour of a cooperage on Crushpad’s blog. What is this cooperage, you ask? Well, a cooperage is usually a place that makes barrels — but after looking it up on Wiki just now, I also found out they can make butter churns, which only makes them cooler in [...]
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Thanks to a CrushCamper who took a bunch of really great photos while they were here, I finally have some images to share with you. Consider this a truncated tour, for all of you who can’t make it out for a camp. Check it out, after the jump!
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Tonight, as Joe and I walked home from a well deserved Friday night dinner at Mexico DF: In a rare moment of public affection, he reaches his arm around my shoulder and leans in to kiss me on the cheek. He stops, then recoils for a moment, his nose squinching. “You smell like coffee,” he [...]
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That’s right, folks. Harvest — though it completely caught us all with our pants down, scampering for the bushes — is around half over. With hundreds of tons of grapes already processed in the first weeks of September (and most of that tonnage already turned into wine), picking has been ramping back up again and [...]
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Nothing could be quite so precarious as climbing up stacks of barrels, each filled with a half ton of wine, for the sole purpose of measuring their Brix and temperature, until you begin to think to yourself, “Well, shit, if The Big One hits San Francisco right now, we’re totally effed.” As in, pray you [...]
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Finally, Friday. I’m not gonna lie, I’m pooped. It’s been the busiest week I’ve had in a while, and for the first time in months I have that feeling of, “Geez, I sure have a lot on my to-do list, and I haven’t the foggiest idea of how I’m going to get it all done.” [...]
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