A Map, A Watch, A Friend, A Memory, Pt. 1
Not Such A Serious Thing Metaphors force us to hold words up to the light and consider whether we truly understand them. You can’t...
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- Apr 27
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...
- 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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