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Archive for November, 2008

After the Crush

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

You’ve seen your wine through crush and fermentation, what comes next?
The almost frantic activity of harvest, crush, and fermentation have past, so what comes next? The wine is resting in barrel but not quite ready to settle in for winter. The activity slows down drastically now that the wine is in barrel but there are [...]

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Cap Management - Red Wine and Sub-Caps

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

How to keep grape skins in contact with the fermenting wine to extract tannins
The level of color and flavor extraction you get during fermentation is critical to the quality of the finished wine. Color is extracted primarily before, or early in the fermentation process. To get the proper tannin extraction to balance the fruit component [...]

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Fusebox on Rodeo Drive

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Nestled between Jimmy Choo and Tiffany on Rodeo Drive is one of our favorite new wine shops, Wine Valet.
They have a small but exceedingly well selected stock of wines and also provide some cool services like home wine tasting parties, cellar consultation and auction services.  Now they also carry Fusebox and are the exclusive [...]

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Crushpad Featured in U.S. News Article on “Personalized Production”

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Interesting article in U.S. News & World Report about the “shift to personalized production” and customization, with lots of examples — including Crushpad.  Read it here.

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Crushpad Customer, Tim Carl featured in St. Helena Star

Friday, November 7th, 2008

This has been a big few weeks for Crushpad Commerce customers in the news.  Keeping the hot streak going, Tim Carl and his Knights Bridge brand were just featured in the St. Helena Star newspaper. Tim joins a chorus of others who are praising 2008 as a “great vintage with a lot of potential for [...]

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Picking Bohemian Vineyard

Friday, November 7th, 2008

Just in time to beat a potential late season frost, the crews are out picking Bohemian
Bohemian Vineyard is way out in the cool end of the Russian River Valley. They tend to have greater frost pressures in spring and fall since the cool location means LONG hangtime for these grapes. And there’s the reason these [...]

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Game Farm Vineyard

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Rocky soils define this Eastern Napa Valley vineyard
Game Farm vineyard is off Silverado Trail directly below the Rector Creek Dam in the Oakville district of Napa Valley. Much of the topsoil to create the dam was stripped off the valley floor and the rocky moonscape left behind was then planted to Cabernet Sauvignon. So while [...]

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Missed the harvest? Still want to make wine in ‘08?

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Every year, Crushpad sets aside some wine especially for those people who missed the harvest and don’t want to wait another year to make their own wine.  If that sounds like you, you might want to adopt a barrel.
You still get to experience tasting, blending, label design, bottling and aging.  And you’re guaranteed a great [...]

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New Haven Register Profiles Malcolm Nicholls

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

Congratulations to Crushpad Commerce customer, Malcolm Nicholls and his Nicholls Wine, featured in a nice article in the New Haven Register — read it here.
Add this article to a bunch of awards that he raked in at the San Francisco International Wine Competition earlier in the year, and it looks like Malcolm is definitely on [...]

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