The Complete Guide to Sebastopol Hills: Terroir, Climate, and What Makes Our Pinot Noir Unique
What are the Sebastopol Hills?
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Sebastopol Hills vs. Russian River Valley: Understanding the Sub-Appellation Difference
One Family. One Vineyard. One Place
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2020: Peak anxiety, smaller quantity, beautiful quality
All’s well that ends well.
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Like a found bill
Recovering a little more wine from the barrel after bottling, when the cellar is quiet.
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Our most frequent task
Wine aging in barrel needs more attention than you might think.
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How much whole cluster we like
Just enough.
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What we mean by ‘a balanced vine’
This is the big fruit dropping pass at the beginning of veraison. You can see there’s some fruit on the ground, but you never want to pay attention to that, because you’ll start freaking out…
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Tasting every barrel
This is the first time I’m looking at all these barrels on an individual basis…
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Big Adventures in a Small Vineyard
Leasing Walker Station opens an exciting new chapter for Kanzler Family Vineyards. Specifically, it gives us the opportunity to introduce two new vineyard designate wines: Walker Station Pinot Noir and Walker Station Chardonnay.
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Bottling: A Sprint to the Finish Line
The production timeline for making wine is very long compared to most food and beverage standards. It’s rare that it takes 15 months for a consumable to go from raw ingredient (grapes) to finished product (a bottle of wine). The final chapter in this long story is Bottling Day.
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