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Arianna Wines harbors a passion for Lodi-grown Torrontés, one of the world's...
Arianna Wines owner/winemaker Arianna Spoto with Torrontés vines in Lodi's Silvaspoons Vineyards. Many of America's best independent winemakers are driven by passion; and not uncommonly, it is passion...
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Voluptuary + Lucid embraces Lodi grapes like gifts of nature, perfectly...
Voluptuary + Lucid owner/winemaker Kevin Luther in a book lined corner of his urban Sacramento winery/tasting room. A "natural" winemaker in flux There is a micro-winery located in our State Capitol...
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Red wines to help celebrate the season for spring lamb
Working sheep among old vine Zinfandel in Schulenburg Vineyard, on the west side of Lodi's Mokelumne River AVA. This coming Sunday (April 9, 2023) is Easter. I don't know about you, but my Easter...
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Lodi Wine Experience at Lodi Lake is back, May 19-20!
Are your ready for a different kind of wine experience? One that takes place in a lush oasis dotted with towering oaks and willows, surrounded by the ice-cold waters of the Mokelumne River on one side...
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The 2023 Lodi Wine Experience Seminar subjects
Mohr-Fry Ranches' Jerry Fry (left) and St. Amant Winery's Stuart Spencer (right) are two of the vintners leading the Old Vines seminar during the 2023 Lodi Wine Experience Grand Tasting. Everything...
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Why old vines are more important than ever all around the world
Monumentally strong, productive, natural-rooted Zinfandel, planted in 1901 in Lodi's Marian's Vineyard. Everything You Wanted to Know About Old Vines and Why They're a Big Deal is the subject of the...
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Ten reasons why old vines are more important than ever to the international...
Stampede Vineyard in Lodi's Clements Hills AVA, certified by Historic Vineyard Society. In our continuation of Everything You Wanted to Know About Old Vines and Why They're a Big Deal—which is also...
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Latest Perlegos Family wines include a groundbreaking Assyrtiko from Lodi's...
John (left) and Jeff Perlegos with a tray of their 2022 Assyrtiko, a grape of Greek origin that is proving to be perfectly at home in Lodi's Mediterranean climate zone. Lodi's first Assyrtiko Perlegos...
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Monte Rio winemaker explains his puristic, terroir-driven approach to three...
Monte Rio Cellars owner/winemaker Patrick Cappiello toasting to ancient vines in Mokelumne River-Lodi's Spenker Ranch, own-rooted Carignan planted in 1900. Leigh-Ann Beverley. Monte Rio Cellars—a...
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Sensory distinctions of wide range of grapes going into dry Lodi grown rosés
Three of the winemakers appearing at the "Rosé All Day! seminar at the 2013 Lodi Wine Experience Grand Tasting: Bryce Willingham (Peltier), Melinda Kearney (Lorenza) and Christina Lopez (Acquiesce)....
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Acclaimed winemakers and rarely seen producers among the wineries pouring at...
Vintners pouring at the 2023 Lodi Wine Experience Grand Tasting (clock-wise, from top-left): Markus Niggli (Markus Wine Co.), Greg La Follette (Marchelle), Jeff Morgan (Covenant), and John and Jeff...
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Farewell to Neal Overboe (1941-2023), a Lodi wine industry pioneer
Vintners-in-arms at Lodi Vintners (from left): Joseph Smith, Neal Overboe, Evangelos Bagias and Tyson Rippey. Earlier this month, the Lodi wine community bade sad farewell to Neal Overboe (1941-2023),...
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Mio Vigneto releases its first Lodi estate Ribolla Gialla while finishing its...
Ribolla Gialla at a golden peak of ripeness in Clements Hills-Lodi's Mio Vigneto estate. Mio Vigneto, a Clements Hills-Lodi project that has taken about eight years to come to fruition in terms of...
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Fun photo album of this past weekend's 2023 Lodi Wine Experience
Lodi wine lovers at the 2023 Lodi Wine Experience in Lodi Lake Park. The Lodi Wine Experience has come and gone, this past May 19-20, 2023. This, of course, was the yearly event formerly known as Lodi...
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Lodi and Zinfandel like two ships passing in the night, perfect for summer...
Lodi Zinfandel specialist Mike McCay serving up his steel drum smoked, dry rub spiced baby back ribs. June 21 marks 2023's first day of summer, but we can already feel the season in the air when many...
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The 9,000-year history of Vitis vinifera, emerging from the genetic mixture...
Ancient Mediterranean winery: Artist's rendering (top) of a large volume Phoenician winemaking facility, dated back over 2,600 years ago, recently excavated in Lebanon. Lodi is a warm climate...
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La Belle Nue, more than a contemporary style rosé, also the story of one...
La Belle Nue proprietor Jacylyn Stokes among her family's grapevines, which she also manages. Once upon a time, Jacylyn Stokes bade farewell to her home and family in Lodi. This only made her eventual...
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Lodi's McCay Cellars explores the wilder, meatier, savory side of dry rosé
McCay Cellars owner/grower/winemaker Mike McCay showing his current line-up of dry rosés. Thirteen years ago Mike McCay produced his first dry rosé from Lodi-grown Grenache grapes under his McCay...
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Discerning the pervasive styles of Lodi Albariño
Albariño clusters in the Bokisch family's Las Cerezas Vineyard, Mokelumne River-Lodi AVA. Some Lodi Albariño history Back around 2005 when Kyle and Jorja Lerner were first drawing up plans to...
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Origins of Tempranillo in Spain and California, and the varietal's pervasive...
Tempranillo clusters in Bokisch's Las Cerezas Vineyard in Lodi's Mokelumne River appellation. A consummate Mediterranean varietal While still a distinct minority taste, American grown bottlings of...
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