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Towne House Restaurant's Neighborhood Nights brings products of local farmers...
Lodi journalist Suzanne Ledbetter (also of the Vino Farms winegrowing family) enjoying Niman Ranch carnitas at Wine & Roses Hotel's Towne House Restaurant. Jill Means Design. This past...
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Belize-born Lodi winemaker Joseph Smith releases a puristic Marsanne,...
St JSL Wines owner/winemaker Joseph Smith. JSL Wines is a new Lodi-based brand, founded in 2021, but is far from new in respect to its owner/winemaker, Joseph Smith. If you have enjoyed the wines of...
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Do not talk about what younger consumers think about wine unless you're under 30
Image from drobotdean by Freepik. Anna Delgado (co-writer) "When was the last time," I recently read in a Substack page called Wineshop Punk, "a wine writer sat down to have a glass with a young...
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A summary of the full range of Lodi dry rosés, by grape variety and brands
Mokelumne River-Lodi appellation Grenache—the black skinned grape most commonly used for dry style rosés—in the early morning light. So far the summer of 2024 has been... let's just say, ugh. A little...
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In summer the living is easier with fresh salads washed down with...
Lorenza Wine's Melinda Kearney (miiddle) hosting a light summer lunch with her contemporary style, acid-driven red wines made from Cinsaut and Carignan. It's summer. Perfect time to talk about......
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While wine consumption in the U.S. slumps, American appreciation of wine...
1863 Edward Bryant home at Harris Vineyards, Clements Hills-Lodi AVA. Since the start of the year (2024) the media has besieged wine consumers with bad news about the state of wine in America....
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How global warming is changing winegrowing in Lodi and the rest of the world
Lodi in the third week of July 2024: Old vine Zinfandel veraison (i.e., annual change of colors) looking good, but slowed down by two heat dome events, repercussions of now well documented climate...
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How LODI RULES for Sustainable Winegrowing is directly addressing climate change
Mechanical harvester in Vino Farms' showcase sustainable vineyard, Grand Vin Lands. Our recent consecutive days of over 100° F. temperatures are just one of the many signs that our climate is changing...
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Anaya Vineyards' Nebbiolo and varietal innovations bring new definition to...
Nebbiolo picker in Anaya Vineyards' Potrero Vineyard, Clements Hills-Lodi AVA. It is time to catch up with Anaya Vineyards, one of Lodi wine country's most interesting stories; especially since the...
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All about the Christmassy colors of summer grapes
Mokelumne River-Lodi appellation Zinfandel during in mid-July, just beginning veraison. The objective of Vitis vinifera, or grapevines, from their very beginning⏤speculated as dating back over a...
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A California cork tree harvest, and why natural cork is the only choice for...
Just-harvested cork tree on UC Davis campus. Cork Supply USA. It may be time to rethink your choice of bottle closures. This was the overriding message, this past May 2024, when for the first time in...
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Liberating Americans from the yoke of conventional wine preferences
j Summer wine lovers in Lodi's Guantonios Wood Fired, a farm-to-table restaurant known for its selection of alternative (i.e., unconventional) style wines. Early history of American wine appreciation...
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Why the Certified Green seal on wine bottles is more important than ever
A sign seen all over the Lodi appellation, and increasingly in other wine regions outside the Lodi appellation: The Certified Green seal for vineyards certified by LODI RULES (a.k.a., CALIFORNIA...
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Our favorite passages extolling the glories of wine
Barrel tasting California Cabernet Sauvignon. Over the past four or five years the wine industry in California has been dealing with the serious issue of overplanting of grapes⏤a crisis that has been...
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Thou shalt covet thy neighbor's grapes (handcraft brands flock to Lodi for...
West Sacramento's Craig Haarmeyer of Haarmeyer Wine Cellars celebrating his Lodi Chenin blanc harvest. In recent years, the roll call of winemakers based outside the Lodi appellation who are...
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Two Gen Z professionals pick Lodi wines younger wine followers would love to...
Two Gen Z Lodi wine professionals, Anna Delgado (left) and Elvira "Elvi" Fonz-Gutiérrez. Co-written with Anna Delgado and Elvira Fonz-Gutiérrez Just a few years ago the wine industry talk was all...
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Early report and favorite photographs of the start of the 2024 Lodi harvest
\ Old vine Carignan harvest in Lodi' s Mokelumne River AVA, September 2, 2024. For most of Lodi's smaller, handcraft wineries, the 2024 wine grape harvest began in mid-August. The pace of the picking...
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One of Lodi's oldest heritage vineyards is picked and packed for home winemakers
2024 Lodi Zinfandel harvest at Giorgi-Ferrari Vineyard, first planted in the 1920s, being packed for shipping to home winemakers across the country by Lodi's M & R Company. A legacy of longtime...
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The annual Lodi Grape Festival continues to celebrate the region's number one...
The Ole Mettler Pavilion on the grounds of the Lodi Grape Festival during last weekend's 2024 Lodi Grape Festival, festooned by a dramatic mural depicting the labors of the Lodi grape growing...
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Harvest images of Church Block, an all-time great historic Lodi vineyard
Early morning harvest morning in Lodi's historic Church Block Vineyard. At the break of dawn this past Monday, September 23, Markus Wine Co. owner/grower/winemaker Markus Niggli and his veteran crew...
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