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2013 July Winegrowing Update
Winegrowing conditions throughout the month of July experienced higher humidity under steady wind speeds. Mean temperatures matched, while sunlight levels lagged, historical averages. Regional average...
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Member Stats, More August Tastings & News Digest
As we all can see, our third month (July 15 - August 14, 2013) of 2013 Membership and Shareship has continued to trend toward the West, with both the Pacific and Mountain regions increasing their...
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How a 27% Personal ROI Generates a 1,700% Social ROI
If you could drink better wine for less while changing the world, would you? Join here to Drink Well and Do Good. The combined average retail price of Vineyard-Designate Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from...
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2013 Harvest & August Winegrowing Update
Fedrick Vineyard Pinot Noir HarvestOn Thursday, August 29th, we picked our first block of Pinot Noir of the season from Fedrick Vineyard (1.5 Tons of Clone 115). The fruit looked and tasted great with...
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Latest Sales Data, Member Stats & News Digest
With two weeks left in the quarter, I am happy to announce that we have achieved our first major goal. We needed to sell 48 Wine Shares before harvest to cover expenses for barrels, racks, fermentation...
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2013 Harvest & September Winegrowing Update
Chardonnay and Pinot Noir HarvestsFredrick's Vineyard Pinot Noir Clone 115 (8/29, 1.5 Tons, 23.7 ˚Brix, 3.59 pH, 6.51 TA) Gaps Crown Vineyard Chardonnay Clone 76 (9/14, 1.5 Tons, 25.1 ˚Brix, 3.38 pH,...
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Latest Member Stats & News Digest
With the start of the fourth quarter underway, we are 8 shares down with 110 to go before Jan 15, 2014 to cover winemaking and fruit costs. So far, Glasshaus CSW Members have saved a total of...
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First Impressions of 2013 Wines & Vintage Report
By all accounts the quality of the 2013 vintage rivals that of 2012. First Impressions of 2013 WinesChardonnayThe Chardonnay was fermented in a combination of new oak (35%) and stainless steel (65%)...
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New Year, New Look ... Last Chance: 2013 Membership Closes This Friday
Next month we reveal the complete design and deconstruct the creative process. If you are anything like us, it promises to feed your geek brain. With the exception of monthly barrel topping regimens...
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What do ogres and our label design have in common?
Why of course. Layers!With the risk of earning the moniker of Captain Obvious, it's not what's on the bottle that matters. It's what's in it. But even with that said, we do appreciate good label design...
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Spring has sprung amid a daunting drought
Now that spring is finally here, it's time to kick off another growing season with our April Winegrowing Update. But first, a word about how the drought is affecting us here in the Petaluma Gap within...
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A Brick (5 out of 5 Dentists Agree)(no, not Brick Tamland)Pinot, Pinot and more Pinot.I really like a "well-made" Chardonnay and I'm not ashamed to admit it. But, even though Chardonnay is still the...
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"Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny..."
"but the air is full of ..." OK, no need to complete Chuck Palahniuk's quote because the truth is in the numbers. Besides being calm and sunny, the air was also warm and dry in the vineyard last month....
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"Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get"
What we "expected" from climate in Mark Twain's time was not the change that we experience in today's climate. When it comes to farming, the devil remains in the details of seasonal weather...
View Article"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."
- Winston Churchill.We just made our first donation to Mentor Me Petaluma. It felt great to prove that our community supported model works but it feels even better to know that we are creating real and...
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"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it"
The dog days of summer are upon us and we move into the home stretch of the 2014 wine growing season. We've completed veraison at Fedrick Ranch and are reading just over 20 Brix on the refractometer....
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"No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with...
- Samuel JohnsonBut one winemaker can taste the wines from last autumn while simultaneously processing the fruits from this autumn...I took advantage of the calm before this year's harvest storm and...
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“Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard...”
… and I will turn it into wine for all to enjoy. With all do respect to Walt Whitman, my ending to his quote is a bit more apropos for our harvest update.On August 27th we picked the first of our two...
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"Art is a fight to the finish..."
"Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper" - Günter GrassIt was a busy end of 2014 and start of 2015 at Glasshaus.Just as the yeast...
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The Reviews Are In...
"The wine is delicious. Everything from the packaging, to the labeling, to the actual wine itself was a grand slam." - Mark T.Member reviews are in for the 2013 Wine Shares and the last time I felt...
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