A Guide to Alcohol Content in Wine
By Liz Willette on 2/15/12
There's much controversy these days surrounding the alcohol content in wine. Sommeliers, retail buyers and consumers all seem to be obsessed about that little percentage point on the bottom of
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By Sondra Barrett on 1/19/12
Of all the various philosophies and practices about how to grow grapes and make wine, biodynamics is by far, the most controversial and often maligned.
So what is biodynamics?
First of all,
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By Sondra Barrett on 1/4/12
Simple grape juice is transformed into the enjoyable elixir we call wine by the work of invisible microscopic organisms. Primary alcoholic fermentation depends on yeast to convert the sweet sugar
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By W. Blake Gray on 12/29/11
I could divide the world of wine into 17 groups, or 167, but for the purpose of telling you how to get wine writers' attention, I'm going to narrow it
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By Richard Leahy on 12/19/11
The distinction between subjective personal taste preferences (largely accidental), and objective wine “quality” is an age-old puzzle.
Just to show that this is an eternal question, I encourage you to visit
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By Richard Leahy on 12/13/11
You may have wondered at some point, who gets to be the ones to say which wines are good, great or lousy? Are they just imposing their tastes on everyone
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By Liz Willette on 12/13/11
I get asked a lot about wine storage … perhaps because I live in New York City where space is like Grand Cru Burgundy – there is never
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By tbenton on 10/13/11
Ryan Callahan, General Manager of The Girl and the Fig in Sonoma, Stopped by to check on his fruit and had some nice words to say about his Crushpad wine
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By tbenton on 10/10/11
Wine Maker Patrick Saboe walks through Split Rock Vineyard checking sugar levels before harvest.
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By tbenton on 10/6/11
CRUSHPAD founder Michael Brill was on Fox News talking about CRUSHPAD and the democratizing of wine production.
CRUSHPAD founder Michael Brill on Fox
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By tbenton on 9/7/11
Recently James Suckling had some nice things to say about Cabernet Sauvignons coming out of Crushpad. Check out his VLOG to see what he had to say!
http://www.jamessuckling.com/my-vlog-tasting-some-crushpad-2008-cabs.html
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By Daphne Feng on 7/25/11
For the last two weeks, Michael Brill, CEO of Crushpad, has been preoccupied with certain top secret German Riesling shenanigans. Word has it that top grade Riesling is difficult to
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By Michael Brill on 7/19/11
Grape growing is certainly a bit of art and science... with a healthy dose of crapshoot thrown in by Mother Nature. Because we're looking at a later harvest this year,
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By Daphne Feng on 7/11/11
You know what we're tasting (see Rodney's Wine Wednesdays Videos). Here is a look at what we are reading!
Notwithstanding the innovative vinification practices I see here at Crushpad, when it
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By Daphne Feng on 6/29/11
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
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By Daphne Feng on 6/15/11
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
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By Andrea Kissack on 6/13/11
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
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By Andrea Kissack on 6/3/11
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
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By Andrea Kissack on 5/4/11
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
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By Michael Brill on 5/1/11
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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