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Dark & Delicious

Next month, on February 17, Trueheart Vineyard and 54 other Petite Sirah producers will be participating in “Dark & Delicious,” an annual event hosted by P.S. I Love You. If you purchase tickets to this year’s event, you will be able to taste and purchase Petite Sirah to your heart’s delight and indulge in food pairings from 30 Napa and Bay Area restaurants and caterers. This will be the first year that we are participating in the event, but we have been told that it sells out every year, so it is important to buy your tickets now!

Tickets for the event are now available by clicking on the link below:

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/213997

We hope to see you there!

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First Prune of the Year

Here is the flatbed trailer stacked high with the vine canes (which is the technical word for grape vine “arms”) we had pruned today. The vines are dormant and have lost all their leaves, and we prune the plant to help it become as productive as possible again in the spring – the same reasons gardeners prune fruit trees and roses. We will prune the canes again in a month or so. Quite a stack, huh?

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All quiet in the vineyard

The vineyard is very quiet in the winter. The vines are dormant and resting. This is shaping up to be one of the warmest, driest winters we’ve ever had here. By now, we usually have had several inches of rain, and we’ve had none, zero, zilch. It’s not too late in the season for us to catch up and get to average rainfall for the year, but while it’s been lovely to spend time outdoors, it sure isn’t good for the crops.

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