by Lisa on October 3, 2012 in Featured, News
What Would You Pair with Jordan Wine? photo contest winners have been selected. And the finalists are: GRAND PRIZE ~ Drink and Paint! by James Warren of Florida “We really enjoyed our visit to the Jordan property a few months ago. Inspired us to dabble with paint on canvas. I was messing around with my [...]
by Lisa on October 2, 2012 in Featured, From the Vineyards, News
After two weekends of warmer temperatures, the 2012 grape harvest has kicked into high gear. If you’ve been following our blog, you may have seen some of our night harvesting videos from the last two vintages. It’s the first week of October, and this year’s first night harvest video will hopefully get you in the Halloween [...]
by Lisa on October 1, 2012 in Featured, News
Greg Miller has joined the Jordan family as our Director of Wine–a new position replacing Ronald Du Preez, who has moved on to start his own winemaking consulting business. You may have already read Greg’s 2012 harvest posts about sorting tables and the art of Chardonnay press cuts, but we wanted to take a moment [...]
by Greg on September 27, 2012 in Featured, From the Cellar
Our 2012 Chardonnay is already beginning its transformation. After passing through the destemmer and sorting process as detailed in my previous harvest post, Chardonnay grapes–still firm and cool from the night harvest–are then transported to our Willmes membrane press. Within this cylindrical press, two membranes (one on each side) are inflated like balloons, allowing for [...]
by Greg on September 25, 2012 in Featured, From the Cellar
The first of the 2012 red grapes arrived to the winery this morning in the form of 36 tons of Mazzoni Merlot. Our winemaker, Rob Davis, has been working with grape grower Mike Mazzoni since 1994, and in fact, fruit from Mazzoni Vineyards was the first fruit source outside of the Jordan Estate to go into the Jordan Cabernet [...]
by Greg on September 21, 2012 in Featured, From the Cellar
On Tuesday, September 18, we received our first grapes of the season in the cool and crisp early morning hours: Chardonnay clone 76. Upon their arrival to the crush deck, the freshly harvested grapes began their journey into the winery on the conveyor belts of the sorting tables. With team members lining the sides of the [...]
by Greg on September 18, 2012 in Featured, From the Cellar, News
The first grapes of the 2012 vintage glided down our sorting table this morning at 5 a.m. For the last week, we’ve humored the idea of Alexander Valley Merlot being harvested before Russian River Chardonnay this year because their sugar levels were charging ahead a week ago, but it was in fact Chardonnay (Dijon Clone 76) that broke the tape. This clone [...]
by Lisa on September 14, 2012 in Featured, From the Heart
Why hasn’t anyone ever made a video of someone reading a long-form wine review? Maybe, just maybe, wine lovers might find it as amusing as foodies did Yelp review readings. We decided to give it a try. Wine Spectator‘s video contest is our one time a year to break out from the usual behind-the-scenes winemaking [...]
by John on September 11, 2012 in Featured, From the Heart
Reading Wine Spectator reviews on camera is more than a little outside my comfort zone, but in honor of Real Actors Read Yelp Reviews, it had to be done. Here’s my rendition of former editor James Suckling’s A Century-Old Wine Worth Staying Up Too Late. Remember: what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. And imitation [...]
by Lisa on September 6, 2012 in Featured, From the Heart, News
When our friends at Eater.com introduced us to the Real Actors Read Yelp Reviews video series, our entry into Wine Spectator‘s 2012 Lights! Camera! Pour! Video Contest began to take shape. Why hasn’t anyone ever made a video of someone reading a long-form wine review? Maybe, just maybe, wine lovers might find it as amusing as foodies [...]
