A very rough drawing of the winery viewed from near our property line is to the right. The brown ... , nor will the winery negatively impact our neighbor’s view. What they currently look at is an open ... during crush and bottling, as well as traffic to the winery or tasting room. We think we have acceptable ... our answers, and a very large and important step in the winery building process will either...

... quite a bit today so I figured now was as good a time as any to unveil our plans for a winery in the virtual space known as Second Life. While we won’t be the first Second Life winery (that distinction goes to the appropriately named Obscure Winery), we will be the first Real Life winery in the space (if you call a vineyard and a set of building plans a “Real Life winery”). While one of my goals...

Development on the Capozzi Winery Island in Second Life is starting in earnest now. I just put the finishing touches on a team that I think will be able to bring the vision to life and I’m very excited to get going. The final piece of the puzzle was to find someone to code all the interesting stuff we want to have happen on the island. I ended up finding a bunch of someones. Stationed in San...

We’ve pretty much finalized the floorplan that we are going to submit to the county at this point. The only major addition to the design is that we moved the driveway from the west side of the building to the east (click on the picture to enlarge). This allows us ...

Does anyone actually read wine data sheets? You know, the one-off sheets that tell you how much titratable acidity, pH and alcohol by volume there is in a particular vintage of wine. I do, geek that I am. For instance, I can tell you that the Hook and Ladder sheet ...

Not on the front page of slickdeals.net, thankfully, but the influx of traffic has been enough to cause problems with the sign up form. If you had issues with it, try back later this afternoon. However, due to the OVERWHELMING response (thank you!), we will be closing the free tee ...

We’re one step closer to the dream. Monday night we had a meeting with our neighbor Jim to talk over the impact that our building a winery will have on their view, discuss sound issues and to ask ... . If your neighbors are against you while you’re trying to get a winery permitted, things can get ... (keep the noise down, wants input on the design of the winery wall facing his house etc.), but he...

... you giddy. Case in point: John Jordan from Jordan Winery just sent me this fantastic article to start...

More from Morgan Twain-Peterson in Bordeaux. Only from Morgan will you find lines like “Trickery, the blind virgin and the goatskin bag has been part of winemaking as long as rules were around for it.” Enjoy. Bordeaux has not had a truly bad vintage since 1992. And I am having ...

According to the Contra Costa Times , Gov. Schwarzenegger has squashed the bill that would have designated Zinfandel as California Historic Wine. “Whether it is a Cabernet from Napa or Sonoma, a delicate Pinot Noir from the Central Coast, a Zinfandel from the San Joaquin Valley or Sierra Foothills, California ...