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Fulcrum Pinot Top Scorer in New Wine Spectator

Monday, June 29th, 2009

When you're keeping company with Foxen "Sea Smoke Vineyard" and Peter Michael "Pisoni Vineyard" you know you're in the upper echelon of Pinot Noir.  In the most recent issue of Wine Spectator the 2007 Fulcrum "Split Rock Vineyard" Pinot was a top scorer with a whopping 94 points, the same as the aforementioned wines.  James [...]

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Open House: Reflections on Theorems, Tacos and Wine

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

We are adept at all things mathematical. Being a winery means weights, measures and calculations are in our blood. But, it just doesn’t add up. We’ve run the numbers from Saturday’s Open House this way & that and still can’t figure it out. Imagine 1463 attendees sampling 39 wines while consuming 2221 tacos and only [...]

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We’re #1!

Monday, June 15th, 2009

We're honored to be on the 7×7 magazine Best of the City: Food & Drink List this year.  We're right there with our new covert, organic and spontaneous lunch spot neighbor Kitchenette (it rocks) and the new Michael Mina restaurant with the almost painfully amazing Burgundy-centric wine list, RN74.
I'm quite certain we crushed the competition [...]

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In the Vineyard with Mitchell

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

After spending considerable time walking vineyards, a few of things are becoming clear.  First, the vines are catching up on developing the optimum shoot length / node number.  Second, due to the May rains, there are an abundance of lateral shoots on most all varieties. Finally, there are an abundance of clusters. Lots of them.
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The craziest vineyard you’ve ever seen

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

This was forwarded to us by Paul VanderMarck who just got back from a trip to Canary Islands.  There’s so much wind that they plant the vines in pits that they dig in the volcanic soil.

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Rockroom Rocks Wine Enthusiast Critic

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Rockroom Cooperative just grabbed three, count them, THREE 93 point scores in the new Wine Enthusiast.  Noted wine critic and blogger Steve Heimoff absolutely loved the Pinot, Chard and Syrah from Rockroom.  The best part is that the Rockroom wines from 2007 and 2008 are even better.  Rockroom has super colletion of wines going.  By [...]

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