Randall Grahm

Is mutilization actually a word?

Just waiting for the Calif. credit to kick in in May, if I can hang on till then.

Talking to a group of home winemakers tomorrow in Los Alros Hills. I’m trying to distill what I think are the most important considerations for making great wines

ArPePe seldom disappoints. I love their wines

When/if my ship comes in, I will find that person.

Saw gas in Santa Cruz over $6/gallon. Not sure I can put off the acquisition of an electric vehicle any longer.

Working in our little seedling nursery today. Somewhat like a neonatal ward for grapevines, I suppose. Analogy not entirely precise but I do fantasize sometimes that one of these new crosses will grow up to be a very useful new variety.

HAL NO!!

This is not the best part of the firing, but it’s in the Top 10.

It is crazy expensive to do business these days. FedEx and UPS both shockingly priced. 25 order forms on slightly heavier stock =$48!! And sending them anywhere? Forget it!

Thanks so much. And you haven’t yet seen my dancing.

Some distance driving today but a very productive morning in Paso Robles. Note to self: Do all your Paso business before the month of June if possible.

The Onion, right?

Excuse me while I kiss this guy.

Haven’t done much wine writing in the last several years but recently was commissioned to do a few pieces and it feels good to re-engage those muscles. Alas the most obvious subject is the death watch of the wine biz occurring concurrently with the death watch of democracy

No thought at all of an exit strategy either for the US engagement nor for the hundreds of thousands of Americans in peril currently trapped in Gulf states. Always a problem when war planners are both evil and stupid.

I’m in.

A beautiful cool day at Popelouchum. Buds just beginning to emerge. Will wait another week or two and continue our mowing in earnest.

Spray permit from the Ag Commish in hand. I am hardly, it must be said, a nozzle head.

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Oui

This gent is all in for the grape. Grape juice between meals?

Even Margaux? This was post-Chaptal, après tout.

Narrator: There was no plan

Looking at the weather forecast whereat not a word is mentioned about rain. But rain is what is presently occurring in Santa Cruz if my senses are not failing me.

Offaly tempting.

Finished up last year’s pesticide report to the ag commissioner. (I confess to being a procrastinator.). I had to finally submit it as a condition to renew the current permit as guess what? It’s budbreak.

Maybe so but the congruency is startling.

A few hours in the vyd today and while it was cooler I’m still not doing well in the heat.

I had slightly misquoted Dr. Strangelove. Gentleman, you can’t fight in here. This is the War Room. Strangelove was broad satire but was eerily prescient. Hegseth = Buck Turgidson?