Wine Information: What a difference a week makes! Great potential!

This post is brought to you by my dad.  He’s the guy who does all the work around here while I sit around drunk-tweeting. fellow wine-lovers. It is my sincere intention to keep you informed of the progress of our vines from the budbreak to the harvest. I will try to be as explicit as [...]

I just got back from a long two weeks of tastings around Western Europe. We went as far north as Normandy (Cherbourg) and we went all the way down to Logrono in the Rioja region of Spain. We drove past a lot of vineyards on our tour, and I have to make a confession. I [...]

It’s been a long and windy day. I am not allowed to go outside because my mom is panicking. The department has banned car travel until further notice. We can see three healthy trees fallen from the winery loft. We assume we’re going to be clearing out a lot of trees. Hopefully nothing damages the [...]

It’s an exceptionally cold winter in France this year and everybody from Paris to Marseilles is covered in an unexpectedly thick sheet of snow. We are enjoying it in the Languedoc too as the vines can always use a good frost. The plants harden and green vines turn to woody tentacles that latch on to [...]

Pigeage is more than just a funny word with indecipherable vowel distribution. It’s a way of life. For weeks, all of our wines are going through an extended fermentation where the grapes and grape juice are turning into delicious red wine. This is a critical period known as maceration when the wine will draw its [...]

Good news for all our Swedish readers. A Swedish wine club that you can join online will be making several of our award-winning O’Vineyards wines available to households around Stockholm (and maybe beyond). In addition, I’m excited because I get to write and read an unprecedented number of umlauts in my day to day affairs. [...]

Okay, so the team (currently consisting of my dad, Joey Quigley, and me) is out in the Cabernet Sauvignon lifting wires. In a nutshell, we want the most leaves possible on each plant since leaves with direct sunlight get energy for the plant, but we want to avoid crowding or dense packs of leaves because [...]

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’ve been back in Tampa a couple days now and I’m starting to miss mom’s cooking. But it’s good to be in the city that raised me, checking out the old stomping grounds and living in the house I was in before we started this crazy vineyard thing. For those who don’t know, I’m from [...]