Hot Weather Creating Challenges for Sonoma Valley Grape Harvest: In the North Bay, extreme heat is keeping grape growers in Wine Country on their toes. Harvest is in full swing and hot weather is adding...
Angry French Winemakers Plan Mass Protest in Narbonne: Tension has been running high in southern France and winemakers are planning a major protest in Narbonne later this month over a crisis facing the...
“A Great to Exceptional Vintage!” Summing up the mountain vineyard harvest – A perspective by Paul and Maggie Bush of Madroña Vineyards
Camino, El Dorado AVA, CA (November 21, 2023) –...
Weather coddled the vineyards in 2023; natural disasters are at bay.
Placerville, El Dorado County, CA (September 14, 2023) – The harvest in El Dorado’s mountain terroir, with elevations from 1,100...
The Lawrence Family and Carlton McCoy, Jr. Announce Acquisition of Bordeaux’s Château Lascombes to Portfolio Inbox: The Lawrence Family, owners of Napa Valley’s iconic Heitz Cellar and Managing Partner...
El Dorado County, Sierra Foothills, CA. (October 31, 2022) — While 2022 harvest reports are a thing of the recent past by North Coast and Central Coast standards, El Dorado AVA in the Sierra Foothills...
Most of us want to forget the bitter heartbreak of harvest 2020. In fact, several winemakers approached to participate in this survey, declined, citing PTSD and the wish to move on...
A week of steep temperatures put vintners on the precipice of irrigation – only to get relief from a cooling trend
(June 1, 2020) Placerville, El Dorado County, CA – Amid the tangle of covid-19...
Necessity, Flexibility and a Hands-on Routine at Madroña
El Dorado Wine Region, CA (April 6, 2020)
Paul and Maggie Bush, grape growers and owners of Madroña Vineyards and Rucksack...
