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Our first native ferment at the winery was an accident it kicked off fast and intensely and scared my business partner who has not made natural wine before. He was panicking but it turned out fantastic and we have a special bottling of that wine. You will smell weird things as long as it’s not...

I like Fermaid K or Nutristart from Laffort never particularly liked Fermaid O. I would do a dose at around pitching, a dose later on before halfway point if it still has issues. Rockpile can stick if it’s too cold it tends to like to run a bit hotter. Just to bounce off what you said we...

Rockpile is fast yeast you may need nutrients if it’s slow

Native yeast is slow sometimes, if it never kicks off pitch yeast but give it a bit of time. It can also be insanely active and tear through a fermentation. Our 2023 cab was like that wild yeast went through fermentation in 2 days flat I mean it literally chewed through it never seen it that...

That article is making a big deal out of something that is not true, I have spoken to tons of growers this year. People were getting really solid prices this year for good grapes. Heck one of the best vineyards in my region sold out of merlot at a record $2800 a ton

We have some money obviously set aside for use so we’re not really in the red more so we’re slowly paying stuff off with revenue but yeah I don’t expect to be in a place to be profitable enough to expand as much as we want for 5-7 years. As once we pay things off it will be a case of slowly...

For me turley doesn’t even make it near my list for zinfandels. I am still upset that Mike didn’t tell me in advance he was closing Carlisle. I’m actually good friends with him. I hated Daous wines and thought they were low quality and them being bought out likely will actually improve the...

We just put our 2023 vintage on sale a week ago. I’m hoping it sells well due to bills and recouping some of our costs to build the winery so we can focus on paying off what we need to and expand the wine list. I have a couple wines I want to produce but am having to hold off till we get some...

That would be a great idea, I can contribute to the list. A lot of small wineries that fly under the radar and are not mass market or culty and too expensive.

Avoid anything gallo like it has the bubonic plague. They are bad for the industry and for the consumer.

Most zinfandels in Paso are mass market junk the little wineries are making the best stuff.

Start small and make money go big in the industry lose money. Generally speaking this is the case. We are already expanding because we sold nearly all of our vintage from last year before it even released.

We’re known somewhat for our Cab.

What I will say is keeping tanks full can be both good or bad, we had bulk wine that sat for a couple years in tanks and could not sell it and ended up using it to make hand sanitizer during Covid and got some money back from selling it to a place that made sanitizer. As for making something...

We had a lab take a look at a sample and they were able to identify species of the microbes in the wine sample.

We had one wild yeast that fermented several bins of cab that was so intense we tried to stun it with sulfites and pitch commercial yeast but the wild yeast won out and that wine ended up being the better of the 2 cabs, we kept them separate and now I’m interested in attempting round 2.0 with...

What I said sums up to, natural wine is an idiotic concept and nothing new. It is misused by bad actors in the industry to pass off wine that is not good and get more money out of it, despite that consumers will buy natural wines due to idiotic false marketing and trends. We sell a natural wine...

I make the best wines I can then focus on appealing to things that people look for hence why while natural wine is stupid and a concept used more for committing fraud and selling dishonest products than anything else because people can label any wine that doesn’t turn out well as natural and get...

Grape supply has been down at least locally the past few years driving up cost, we have personally sold record wine sales we actually had to scale up for next year because we under estimated demand. As for grapes pulling up I have seen a bunch of new plantings this year and I saw a bunch in 2023...

Yes, I just call the whole area under Paso umbrella cause it mostly is on a map.