Last Friday evening, I received an alarming email about the installation of a quarry several kilometers away from O’Vineyards.  The email said I had until Monday to respond. Given the lack of detail and the strange time of delivery of the email, I panicked and posted on the blog.  Some of you have graciously offered [...]

I got an alarming email about a quarry project in the town where I make my wine.  It’s very short notice!  I have to respond by Monday and I don’t know anything about this project. I got this email from the person at the Chamber of Agriculture who has been acting as a general manager [...]

“Même si on est un peu Américain en cave, on est très Français dans la vigne.” While I was in London for the Languedoc Outsiders Tasting, I got interviewed by Marie Lahetjuzan with French Radio London.  It was a very fun interview at the end of a long day of tasting and you all know [...]

My UK importer Naked Wines just celebrated its second birthday.  And like all good business relationships, I feel like any cause for them to celebrate is a cause for me to celebrate as well.  They’ve come very far in 2 years, and it seems like they have a lot farther to go.  The Naked Wines [...]

It has recently come to my attention that a lot of Japanese people are talking about my wine without popping into my google alerts.  It’s probably related to the differences in language.  Even though they usually write the brand in roman characters, there are often kanji suffixes or other weird linguistic quirks (e.g. o’vineyardsは). Anyway, [...]

Inspired by some of my favorite musicians who often favored rural village tours over big city stages, we hit the road in rural England.  And I think it was a huge success. Our UK Villages Tour was short but awesome. It’s definitely a concept I want to pursue further! What is the UK Villages Tour? [...]

The O’Vineyards UK tour was a blast.  Thanks to everybody who participated, organized, drank, or just wished they could be there. There were two parts: The Languedoc Outsiders (scroll down for press coverage and reviews) Naked Wine Villages (click for a full post about the UK Villages Tour with amateur reviews) French Radio London interview [...]

After seeing all the interest in how Chateau Margaux brings in the harvest, it occurred to me that I haven’t really talked about our own harvest intake. So without further ado, this is how we harvest at O’Vineyards … plus all done with pictures taken by a friendly tourist during our 2010 harvest! It starts [...]

While this blog can sometimes go on tangents based on my strange, exploratory moods, it is still a winemaker blog.  And it is late September which means HARVEST in the south of France.  So here it is, my first obligatory vineyard harvest of 2010. We’re starting with the Merlot, as usual.  It’s all by hand [...]

A Russian wine lover is running a series of updates from me on his website, WhyWhyWine.  It’s always fun to see yourself translated into a language you can’t read. It’s even more fun using Google Translator’s limited engine to decipher what’s being said.  There’s an odd sort of poetry in the computer generated translation: “These [...]