Entries Tagged as 'Miscellaneous'

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

How we spent our weekend: fundraising at Flora Springs Winery

This past weekend, which was a hot and muggy one here in the Napa valley, we spent some time up at Flora Springs Winery. We were attending a truly Napa Valley event–a fundraiser for our little guy’s ’school’ as we call it (in reality, it’s a daycare)–which was hosted by Flora Springs out on West [...]

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Video: how to find water in a vineyard–the old fashioned way

Duane Hoff (of Fantesca Estate and Winery up on Spring Mountain) and the crew at Adopt-a-Grape are out with their latest video installment. This one has the team searching for a water source on the property with the special help of a long time Napa Valley resident.

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Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Wine country parking

This is how ‘overflow’ parking is handled here in the Napa Valley.

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Monday, May 26th, 2008

Happy Memorial Day

Today we raise a glass in salute of all those who have given everything as they fought for our freedom. Happy Memorial Day!

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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Hess Collection May 2008 ‘Rare Reds’ club shipment

This past weekend we were up at The Hess Collection, where there was quite a bit going on. First, it was a Cellar Door Red weekend, meaning our half-gallon jug was refilled with 100% cabernet sauvignon (2005) from Mount Veeder. Second, the winery was having a warehouse sale, which we checked out but didn’t wind [...]

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Get your (mostly) Napa Valley winery widgets here

A recent comment gave us the final kick in the pants to actually put an idea we’ve been knocking around for a while into action.
As many of you know, we’ve ‘widgetized’ The Cork Board, meaning we’ve turned this blog into a bit of code that can easily be embedded on any website or blog [...]

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

Saturday sunrise in St. Helena

It was another early one for us this morning–maybe sometime in the next 12-15 years we’ll be able to sleep until AFTER the sun rises, but we’re not holding our breath.
Here’s a shot of the sunrise we watched near Galleron Road just on the outskirts of St. Helena on Saturday. It’s hard to make [...]

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Tom Wark vs. James Conaway and ‘the battle for Napa Valley’

Reading Tom Wark’s blog post (err, rant) today over at Fermentation about comments from author James Conaway gave us a bit of a chuckle. Tom decided to call into question several quotes from Conaway that appeared in the Napa Valley Register from a recent talk he gave at the California Preservation Foundation Conference.
So why did [...]

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Napa Valley tasting rooms take a beating online

A combination of things led us to this post.
Last Friday afternoon, we were reading through some of the most recent comments on this here blog. It’s always interesting when comments appear on posts from several months ago, it makes us feel good, because it means that something we’ve written and forgotten about still resonates [...]

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Sunday sights

The little man didn’t let mom and dad get much sleep this weekend. So, here’s a glimpse into what we saw as we literally circled the entire valley on Sunday morning before (and just after) sunrise.

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