Rising Alcohol in Wines & Rising CO2 Levels I read a very interesting article from Lisa Perrotti-Brown regarding the correlation between rising CO2 in the atmosphere and the rising of Alcohol in wine. The rise of alcohol in wine could be either that people like more alcoholic wine, or that, as it seems to be […]

UPS Opens the Doors to European Shipping UPS claim it can now ship to Europe...Except to France, mind you... and it has to be a minimum of 2 cases. Nice try, UPS. Ref: https://www.winebusiness.com/news/?go=getArticle&dataid=188109 UPS ouvre les portes au commerce Européen. UPS dit qu'il est possible d'expédier du vin en Europe. Mais pas en France, […]

Rattlesnake by the house We heard Diva barked at something and found a Diamond back Rattlesnake just by the house in the middle of the afternoon. Too close, too dangerous...Look between Gina and the Tank. It got sentenced to death by decapitation and served for dinner as an appetizer. What goes with snake? A good […]

Alcoholism And Addiction In the Wine Industry   This is a very interesting article about the difference between Alcoholism and Addiction, and how to cope with both when working in the wine industry. In short it says that Addiction runs into your genes and it is not always easy to control, but Alcoholism is entirely […]

Understanding Oxygen and Screw Caps. Screw Caps are becoming more and more popular because they are cheaper and safer than regular corks. And now, screw caps breathe like a normal cork. The cons are, first, without a cork to fill the bottle, you have more open space in the bottle which might create an oxydation […]

Feeding Hummingbirds and bats We have three Hummingbirds feeders and now about a dozen hummingbirds come and feed daily. We also have bees from our two beehives coming and helping themselves at the feeders and the bird bath. But we also have noticed last night when we forgot our feeders outside, bats coming and drinking […]

End of the Harvest at Copper Horse Vineyard: We harvested the last of our grapes, the Mourvèdre, and are going to process it at the Cochise Wine Company's winery. The grape is not the best, low sugar and low acidity, but waiting longer would just mean loose more grapes to the birds while the Ph […]

FDA Begins Winery Inspections. Wine-production facilities must have current registration, comply with Food Safety Modernization Act. It sounds good but what does it actually mean? Wineries have little in common with restaurant and food safety doesn't really applies to wineries. Wine is too acidic and alcoholic to allow any airborne germs to develop. Of course […]

Total Eclipse of the Wine How is the eclipse going to affect the harvest this Monday? The eclipse itself will probably just distract the workers and have little effect on the harvest. But the climate change does have an effect noticeable with the fruit especially in some regions such as Argentina where it is bad […]

Cheese game: You remember the cheese game we blogged about in the past, where we have various cheeses, with various crackers, and various wines? Well, after playing it for months, and because the cheese variation around here is scarce, we pushed the game one notch up. We added chocolate. Different types of dark chocolate to […]