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Featured Authors
W. Blake Gray is author of “California Winetopia,” a Japanese-language guide to California wines. He was previously a staff wine writer/editor for the San Francisco...
Liz Willette got bitten by the wine bug while living in Beaune, France. At the time she was working for Butterfield & Robinson, a high-end active travel company...
Richard Leahy has been writing about wine for consumers and producers since 1986. He was a regional editor for Kevin Zraly’s American Wine Guide, and was...
Ashton Keefe is the Owner/Executive Chef of Ashton Keefe LLC. Culinary Lifestyle Services, which specializes in boutique catering, food styling and culinary...
Sondra Barrett, PhD fell in love with food early on when she starting reading cook books as a young girl. She hasn’t stopped since. She earned a PhD in biochemistry...
Jon Thorsen is the founder of the popular blog The Reverse Wine Snob: Thumbing My Nose At Bottles Over $20!. The idea behind the blog...
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Barrel Tasting at Crushpad: 2010 Chardonnay from Durrell
Join Crushpad winemakers Adam Smith and Rodney Gagnon as they taste Chardonnay from the Durrell Vineyard here in Sonoma County. They’ll also taste 2009 Sorcellerie to see what a finished wine from this area tastes like.
Meet The New Faces of Crushpad
We’ve been growing our operations and would like to introduce four stellar additions to our team! Cyndi Caballero, Senior Accountant Like an archeologist, Cyndi spends her days deciphering hieroglyphics like the General Ledger and Accounts Payable for the rest of … Continue reading
Barrel Tasting at Crushpad: 2010 White Hawk Syrah
Join Crushpad winemakers Patrick Saboe and Rodney Gagnon as they taste Syrah from White Hawk in Santa Barbara. They’ll also taste 2009 Robleon to see what a finished wine from this area tastes like.
Wednesday Barrel Tasting: 2010 Reverence Vineyard
Join Crushpad winemakers Kian Tavakoli and Rodney Gagnon as they taste the progress on 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon from Reverence Vineyard. They’ll also taste 2008 Kanya to see what a finished wine from this area tastes like.
A Journey from Grape to Bottle
Someone recently asked Amy Rooker, our director of compliance, what I do at Crushpad. She tried to tell them and ended up saying, “just ask JJ, I can’t really explain it.” I like to say I am a cross between … Continue reading
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Tweet My Grape: Wine and Social Media
Tweet and Taste Recently, Twitter co-hosted a nationwide wine tasting tweet-up. The event blended the virtual and the actual as people chimed in from Twitter headquarters in San Francisco and across the country from wine stores in cities such as … Continue reading
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Clown Act
For seven friends from Chicago the road to making a bold Napa Valley Cabernet was paved with many wine dinners and Pinot and Poker nights. Clown Car Ink Blot Wines includes Ross Kerr, his father and a few of their … Continue reading
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Vino For Mom
Sunday, May 8th is Mother’s Day. While many of us will be rushing out to get a card in the mail in time, two guys have already one-upped us. Ben Feldman and Eduardo Porto Carreiro have named their big Santa … Continue reading
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CRUSHPAD in Sonoma
Here are a few photos of where we’ll be making wine in Sonoma. Entrance to the Winery Entrance to the Visitor Center Our Production Space Barrel Room Our Office
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Stirring Up a Passion for Wine – by Andrea Kissack
Here I am, wine newbie, stirring my low oak Chardonnay on an early spring visit to Crushpad. I forgot why you need to stir the wine but I was totally happy to do it. This was only my second visit to … Continue reading
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Crushpad at San Francisco Vintners Market
The San Francisco Vintners Market returned to the Fort Mason Center April 9-10 for its second year. This unique event allows the visitors to taste and buy wines on the spot from the 80+ boutique wineries. There were over 7000 … Continue reading
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Sonoma, meet Crushpad… Crushpad, meet Sonoma (handshakes all around).
On April 18, 2011 we packed our barrels, equipment and your wine and expanded to our new facility in Sonoma. As reported, Bill Foley, of Foley Family Wines, recently invested in Crushpad which enabled us to move into our new … Continue reading
Mashup- Napa Style
Crushpad’s annual Mashup was Saturday, March 12th at the Silverado Resort in Napa. Despite gloomy forecasts, we woke to beautiful sunshine as clients descended upon the Napa Valley from locales near and far; including the Bay Area, New Jersey & … Continue reading
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Crushpad Attends World of Pinot
March 4-6 our resident Pinot winemaker, Adam Smith, packed his car with bottles, t-shirts and sunglasses and headed to Shell Beach, CA to join 180 Pinot producers from around the globe. The 11th Annual World of Pinot Noir at the … Continue reading
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Crushpad takes Handsome Dan for Walk in Central Park
Courtesy of Dave Bryant (aka “D2″) When you think of Yale a few things come to mind, the rich educational history, alumni that include five presidents, forty-five cabinet members, over five-hundred members of congress, and Handsome Dan, Yale’s bulldog mascot. … Continue reading
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