Go behind the scenes at Jordan Winery to learn how wine is made, from farming grapes in the vineyard to winemaking in the barrel cellar.
After a cool, foggy August, the 2017 Sonoma County grape harvest kicked off at Jordan Winery on August 30 with Russian River Valley chardonnay grapes—all night-harvested by hand. With continued moderate weather, we were hoping to…
Last Christmas, John Jordan gifted all winery employees a GoPro HERO camera and challenged each of us to create a video that would capture “a day in our life at work.” Soon, the first-ever Jordan Winery…
This gallery of vineyard photographs shows veraison of wine grapes in progress. The definition of veraison is the onset of ripening. This French word is used throughout the world’s vineyards to describe the color change of…
The 2017 vintage growing season thus far reminds me of resetting a watch back to my regular time zone after a long international flight. Mother Nature has finally hit the reset button on grape growing conditions…
When bottling a smooth wine like the 2015 Jordan Cabernet Sauvignon, we had to take it despacito. Hope you enjoy our “Despacito” parody music video, “Despacito Embotellado,” inspired by Luis Fonsi’s hit song, which will be…
A more difficult vintage than its three predecessors, 2015 underscores the importance of selecting the right vineyard sites and being proactive with farming practices when Mother Nature throws curve balls. Here are the five key factors…
Certainly, 2012 will go down as one of the truly great vintages of California cabernet sauvignon. How can such an incredible vintage be shadowed by its successor, 2013? Well, that is exactly what happened with the…
Winemaking challenges come in many forms. There can be frost snaps in early spring that harm the grapevines’ vulnerable buds, untimely rains while harvesting thin-skinned grapes like chardonnay or the grudging tank of cabernet sauvignon that…
2017 Bud Break in the Vineyards After a cold, soaking-wet winter that will go down in the record books, the vineyard soils began to dry and warm last month, signaling to the grapevines that it was…
The inspiration for Jordan Chardonnay is the White Burgundies from Meursault and Puligny-Montrachet, and while we never want to change our crisp, balanced style of wine, John Jordan believes in constant evolution; we are always trying…
After a week-long wave of storms that dropped up to 20 inches of rain and 12 feet of snow, Northern California’s drought is officially over. According to the federal government’s U.S. Drought Monitor, January’s atmospheric river,…
After a weekend of heavy rain, our nineteenth estate olive harvest began in Alexander Valley under blue skies on November 1—exactly two months after the start of grape crush. The week of sunny, warm days that…
