When you live and work on a vineyard, dinner quickly becomes your favorite meal of the day. After long hours spent toiling over the well-being of our grapes, we take great satisfaction in the restorative plates which reward our effort. We’re both accustomed and grateful to the quality recipes usually created by Mrs. Foster, but, [...]
Not all grapes are created equal–even within the rows of Tin Cross Vineyards we constantly strive for balance in our clusters. Just as we only have so much time in a day, vines are limited to the amount of energy they can provide their offspring. This is the primary reason we go through fruit-thinning; like [...]
Anyone living in the valley knows the past few weeks have produced unkind temperatures upward of 100 degrees. At 2,450 ft., the tallest part of Tin Cross Vineyards is closer to the sun than almost any other vineyard in Sonoma County, but our mountain’s temperature indicates that’s not such a bad idea.
Our vineyard fruit is [...]
Greetings Readers of Our Wine Story. This is the continuation in a series of posts dedicated to an interview held with Captûre’s winemasters Denis and May-Britt Malbec. We hope this series will allow you an eye-opening view into our winemasters’ origins, opinions, and passions for wine.
I have read so much about terroir, everyone has their own [...]
Grapes tend to lead stationary lives, but when they’re off the vine things really start to move. This past week our grapes were harvested into their FYBs, and then, carefully trucked 27 miles to our winery. That’s a lot of movement after 9 months of resting on a vine, but their arrival at the winery [...]
For the last week we’ve been pulling the excess leaves off the grapevines. It’s hard work, though our team is cooled by the shade of the vines. The leaves are thinned (pulled off the vines) by hand in order to allow air to circulate and prevent mildew, as well as to allow dappled sunlight to [...]
A few days ago we wrote to tell you about how quickly the gosling swans are growing. Well, the fruit in the vineyard is growing at the same rapid pace! We’ve had several 104 degree days at the vineyard this week, and the grapes loved the heat. We can practically watch the grapes grow before [...]
Summer has arrived in Sonoma County! We have had several 100 degree days in the valley. The vineyard is located at an elevation of more than 2,000 feet, so interestingly it is often 20 degrees cooler up on the vineyard than down on the valley floor! What do these extreme temperature differences mean to the [...]
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