Herrmann York Is Growing Up
Our boys are two years old now. When they run out of view, by the time they return, it seems their hair has grown. Being a father, like...
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- Feb 1
Our Third Vintage (2022)
The summer was consistently warm, but we didn’t see extremes until September. A few early season rains did not affect the drought....
- Dec 14, 2022
Inland Southern California Wine
Introduction This brief address was written for a presentation to the Redlands Rotary Club and delivered in November of this year. It is...
- Oct 4, 2022
$6000 Sweatsuits: On Jazz and Wine
What can the history of Jazz tell us about the future of wine?
- Apr 17, 2022
Our Sophomore Vintage: 2021
Sophomore years in school were sort of an in-between time. Not yet a part of the so-called upper class, no longer standing on the bottom...
- Jul 6, 2021
My Grand Daughter Will Be A Great Wine Maker; or What the 2020 Vintage Taught Us
Rudolf Steiner is a big name in wine because he is the father of what we now call "biodynamics," a way of farming in which plants,...
- Sep 9, 2020
Discovering Our Grape Karass
If there ever was a middle-finger-of-a-grape, it's Alicante Bouschet. By all accounts, you shouldn't get near it, but we can't help...
- Sep 4, 2020
Our Actual Inaugural Vintage
Things are finally settling down from harvest. Early, you say? Indeed. While others are still watching and measuring their fruit, the...
- Sep 1, 2020
Los Empleados
Efran Chavez passed before our first harvest. I'd only spoken to him once on the phone—never in person—but I gathered from everyone in...
- Aug 31, 2020
Curious books on wine, part 1
We're self-taught winemakers. Nowadays, that means we spend time on YouTube, but it also means we do a lot of reading. There are some...
- Jul 1, 2020
Our imagined inaugural vintage
Harvest is a long way away and we're a bit antsy, so here's one version of what Herrmann York 2020 might just look like.
- Jun 30, 2020
On Racism
We get together most nights—whether physically or digitally—to drink wine and talk. We make plans for the winery, rewrite work orders...
- Jun 29, 2020
Why are we stoked on Cinsault?
I'd like to write that our interest in Cinsault started with an obscure bottling from a tucked away Cru or a cliffside in Lebanon's Bekaa...
- Jun 29, 2020
You haven't had your favorite wine yet
How could we possibly stop drinking new ones long enough to rank them?
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