Stories


  • Four Delightful Holiday Gift Packages

    For Your Clients, Your Family, Your Friends, or even for Yourself. Let us help make your holiday table special! We’ve created 4 incredible Holiday Gift Packages – at extra cheerful pricing – to make your gift giving easy. Each Gift Package includes taxes and shipping within the continental United States. Each can be personalized with…


  • Update: I Hear From Constellation’s Lawyers (Yikes!)

    Some of you may remember a Facebook Ad I ran, comparing the 2022 Dial Tone Pinot Noir with the 2021 Meiomi Pinot Noir and declaring that there was less sugar in the 32 bottles of Dial Tone than in one bottle of Meiomi. Ultimately, my position was (and remains) that people should drink what they…


  • Harvest 2024 – A North Bay Halftime Report

    As I write this, we are very near the middle of harvest. There have been enough grapes harvested to give a decent idea of the quantity and quality of wine that will be produced as well as some preliminary thoughts about the style of the vintage. But the final chapters of Harvest 2024 are still…


  • Drink What You Like. Know What You’re Drinking.

    Drink What You Like. Know What You’re Drinking.

    If you’re visiting this page, I imagine it is because you saw a picture comparing the 2022 Dial Tone Pinot Noir (which I make) with the 2022 Meomi Pinot Noir. Tested at ETSLabs, one of the world’s leading, independent, and accredited laboratories, the 2022 Dial Tone Pinot Noir was found to contain 0.6 grams per…


  • Beau Marchais Clos Pepe: The Untold Story from Beginning to End

    Beau Marchais Clos Pepe: The Untold Story from Beginning to End

    I will begin by apologizing for the length of this story – but for a great vineyard like Clos Pepe, it deserves to be told. I first started working with Clos Pepe Vineyard sometime in 1999 – which is remarkable since the first crop wasn’t until 2000. Thanks to a new phenomenon called “the Internet”…