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.
Even though school is out during summer, it’s math time in the vineyards. June and July are the months where grape cluster counting takes place. Grape cluster counting literally means walking through vineyard rows counting grapes…
Guests who visit Jordan Winery expect to see a grand French chateau, towering wine barrels and decanters being filled with cabernet sauvignon. But, for the next seven years, we’ll also be giving them a different kind…
There is no mistaking it—bud break is that glorious moment that happens in the vineyard each spring as the vines wake up from their winter dormancy. All winter long, grapevines stood lifeless and bare, but as…
Winter is an important time of rejuvenation in wine country. All winter long, the vineyards sleep, recharging for the intense growing season that is soon to come. By November or December, the grapevines enter into their…
Every year for the Jordan Winery employee holiday party, we create a compilation video of our favorite bloopers, outtakes and behind the scenes footage from all the Jordan Winery videos shot that year. Thirty Jordan wine…
Most people know Jordan as one of the top cabernet sauvignon brands they choose when dining at a nice restaurant or their favorite winery to visit in Napa and Sonoma for food and wine pairings. As…
Wine corks are a very serious business at Jordan. When it takes four years from harvest to release for a bottle of Jordan Cabernet Sauvignon to be uncorked by our customers, we want to do whatever…
Since 1997, Jordan Winery has made small-batch, high-quality extra virgin olive oil from Italian and Spanish olive trees planted on our 1,200-acre estate in Sonoma County, California. The art of how olive oil is made for…
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 grapes photography shows wine grape veraison 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 red…
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…
