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Bottling is always one of the hardest most stressful things we do.  There are over a dozen different vendors to coordinate with and everything has to be timed just right.  It’s also hard because we do it just twice per year so getting experience for us and the crew has been a process that takes years. …

This has been one of the driest years I can remember.  Right now in San Jose rainfall is at about 40% of a normal year.  We’ve only had a couple of good storms go through.  Mostly when we have had rain though it has been a light drizzle more than real rain.  The winter months …

Early in the year there was a great deal of talk about the weather.  It was a cold and very wet spring.  We had unusual rain in May and June.  There was concern for the harvest this year. The basic rule about the weather is that the spring effects quantity, summer effects the harvest date …