Sometimes, I take a weekend day off and just do a nice all-day wine tasting with one of my retailers. Which retailer depends on where I’m staying and what I want to do that night. This past Saturday was at The Butcher’s Block in Sarasota. I got some video footage that should demystify my job [...]

I finally had a bit of time to compile some of the vineyard footage. Please excuse the low quality. I’m recording all of this with my laptop’s built-in webcam and the macbook icam is not meant for these sweeping outdoor shots. Add Internet compression to that and some psychotic time-lapse editing and you have video [...]

I made a sister video to accompany the barrel music video. It wraps up the barrel trifecta with a couple of shout outs and an answer to one of the questions I got from the Vayniac forums. Check out the rest of the blog at Ryan O’Connell’s wine blog

I posted a youtube video about the different pruning methods. There’s spur pruning and cane pruning. These are known here as Cordon Royat and Guyot, respectively. At O’Vineyards, we’re in the process of converting from Guyot to Cordon Royat and this video explains why we think this will be good for the wine. PS – [...]

I just celebrated my 23rd birthday at the beginning of the month and after an incredibly busy pair of weeks in Florida, I flew back to the vineyard. I am currently typing from my office above the winery and I am excited to announce that I finally got around to making a short vineyard video. [...]

(warning: mild cursing) Okay, This is only peripherally related to O’Vineyards in that I am O’Vineyards and I made this delicious dish with my friends. We just made an enormous, decadent pizza sandwich. That’s a sandwich where you put something delicious in between two large slices of bread except that each slice of bread is [...]