Slowly reaching the end of veraison in the red blocks, with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon both basically complete and the only laggard is the Cabernet Franc. We had the team go through again yesterday and drop all the remaining greed fruit. 2025 GDD: 1641 (delta to 2024 vintage: 213) Our Sauvignon Blanc is coming along…
New releases and member shipments are on the way. This season, you’ll notice some important changes in our program. As usual, we continue to offer three memberships: Our Premier Membership (6 bottles), The Collector Membership (12 bottles) and our Crosby’s Reserve Club. This year, however, we have recently updated our website and online store to…
Every other week or so as I prepare our weekend bread, I decide to alter the recipe just a little bit, and more often than not, that alteration simply leads to baguettes. They’re a little more difficult to make, and a little more work, but they are delicious straight out of the oven, they store…
When I was probably around 10-11, my parents took me to London for the first time, and we wandered into a charming, old English pub warmed by a crackling fire. They recommended shepherd’s pie, promising I’d love it. The moment that hearty, savory dish arrived, topped with creamy mashed potatoes, I was hooked. Each bite…
To change things up this week Juliana suggested we add dried cranberries and walnuts to our weekly sourdough. We added a half cup of dried cranberries and a half-cup of chopped walnuts and folded them into the dough as we performed our first three stretchings of the dough. We then let it rest overnight to…
Quiche starts to make an appearance in our house around this time of year, maybe because it makes such a wonderful Sunday Brunch. We like to include things from our winter garden — chives, scallions, green onions, dill, and cauliflower — and pair it with a well-chilled bottle of our Sauvignon Blanc — as we…
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We are tremendously excited to share our new releases with you. The recommended package of new releases from Napa Valley will include our 2023 Sauvignon Blanc, 2022 Reserve Chardonnay, and 2022 Estate Bottled Red Wine, but as always, you can customize your shipment simply by responding to this email or reaching out to Sean or…
Part 2: It’s been such an incredible vintage I don’t even know where to begin with extolling 2024’s virtues. Extremely high sugars and low pHs with lots of acidity on the midpalate that is balanced (at least in the wines that are just finishing fermentation now — our Merlot blocks, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, and…
Part 1: Harvest comes to a close on 2024 today with the last block of our Cabernet Sauvignon, with Orion high in the southwest sky and a full moon overhead. And now that harvest is over, queue the music, this is when I get all melancholy and reminiscent about all the things that could have…
Harvest is slowly coming to a close here in Napa Valley, and so far, I have to admit, it’s been exceptional. The late spring and early summer were mostly hot and bright, forecasting strong vegetative growth for next year. Towards the end of July the temperatures began to cool, and we had a generally mild…
Happy to report: It’s been a delightful harvest so far. We harvested our Merlot, Block 3, on October 2, followed by Block 2 Merlot on October 4, along with our Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot from Block 1 the same day. We returned Saturday October 5 and harvested the remainder of Block 1 — all…