My Dinner with BOSSY

If you’ve been paying attention to the cool bloggers, you’ll have heard that one of the funniest ladies on the InterWebs rolled into town on her (No) Book Tour. That would be a tour to promote a book she didn’t write featuring get-togethers in selected cities for the non-signing of said non-book. But what is really amazing about this feat of not writing a book is...

Days of Wine and Rosé

It’s about time for another winemaking post. After all that was the raison d’être of my blog. I know it seems I get sidetracked, what with writing about worms, Johnny Cash and guns, but that doesn’t mean winemaking has stopped here at Two Terrier Vineyards. Even though we got everything in oak barrels months ago and the vines are just starting to emerge from winter...

The Return of Cousin John’s Yeasts

Cousin John, as you’ll remember from this post, is a purist. He makes wine, but spurning our carefully crafted and specially raised UC Davis yeasts, Cousin John uses whatever is floating in the air. In fact, Cousin John only uses au natural techniques and ingredients to make wine. He’s been known to wander the byways of Sonoma picking wild fruit for fermentation....

Let It Saignee. Or Adventures in Making ...

When the going gets tough, the tough winemaker makes rosé. Or something along those lines. We told you earlier how we were planning a panic harvest of the tenderer Mourvedre and Grenache ahead of this typhoon-driven rainstorm that was heading our way. We just made it, harvesting, crushing and securing the harvest into primary fermentation vats just hours before the big storm hit. We...