The worldwide wine industry is abuzz with the recent conviction of a French wine combine which defrauded Gallo Wines by delivering at least 18 million bottles (the equivalent of 460 oil tanker loads) of “cheap French red table wine” (blended with with cheaper merlot and syrah grapes) and calling it “pinot noir” for “at least [...]
Some Mendocino County folks are gasping about the possibility of the shuttered Valley Oaks food and wine center in Hopland, once known globally for its magnificent organic gardens, becoming an RV park.
Some Mendocino County folks are gasping about the possibility of the shuttered Valley Oaks food and wine center in Hopland, once known globally for its magnificent organic gardens, becoming an RV park.
Back in the early oughts (aka 2000-2001) there were a couple of high profile slides of vineyards onto roadways.
On Tuesday we had some business involving transporting a young bull to service a couple of Jersey half-breeds at the Frey ranch in Redwood Valley. The bull calf is the third son of my favorite cow, the one with the udder that never needs trimming and the calm temper who lets me handle her newborn [...]
Glen McGourty, UC Extension Farm Advisor, Mendocino County branch, is paid out of tax money to give free technical advice to grape growers about how to nurture their thirsty grapes.
McGourty’s advice is water-intensive. The growers plant shallow rooted rootstock so growth can be controlled and pesticides delivered via drip irrigation lines. Shallow- rooted grapes are [...]
The old plan, the young live. Most of the people at last Thursday’s Planning Commission hearing to address the Anderson Valley Alternative General Plan Draft at the Boonville Fairgrounds were over the age of 50. The sole young person (i.e., under 30) was the reporter from Mendocino County Public Radio.
A parade of locals trooped to [...]
