Harvest is well underway here at Picnic Wine Company. Last week we kicked off the season by picking our Chenin Blanc from Clarksburg. Contrary to previous years (all two of them), we still have much vineyard work to do, however, as we monitor our Grenache vines in the low-Sierras (El Dorado county) AND in Lodi. [...]
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Trolling the spring vines
An early May peek into our Chenin vineyard in Clarksburg
The Winter Wonder-Vine
There is life after harvest. In fact, I enjoy the winter quarter as much as any. A time to reflect on the chaos of harvest and clean up “shop” before the new season kicks off. Since Zach has so eloquently informed us about buttoning up the 2011 vintage, I thought I’d expound on winter activities [...]
here we go again!
Maybe because it was such a busy summer, or maybe it has do to with the fact that the weather here was so rarely hot that it never felt like summer, but I am largely flabbergasted to wake up to find it early fall, already with juice in tank. Our tanks are teetering on the [...]
Its summer of 2011? Cool!
It is far too early to assume we really know how the 2011 vintage is going to shape up, but that doesn’t stop us from talking about it as though we do. Here in Napa, there is a pervading precursor to panic in the air… Here we are in June, and the skies are still [...]
Feeling the heat, of a cold season
While we can sleep at night knowing we have our grapes safely in tank, picked at optimal maturity and fermenting with ease, others in our industry do not share this same luxury. For those not local to California, or for those locals hiding under a rock, the 2010 growing season has been unseasonably cool; two [...]
Our 2011 blue plate Chenin Blanc!
The 2011 blue plate Chenin Blanc from Clarksburg, CA is as beautifully crisp and layered as it is affordable.
Available now at:
blueplatewines.com 
