Barreled - A Winery Blog

Travaille D’Amour (aka Labor of Love) In the early fall of 1986 my college roommate (Scott, owner of SP Drummer Wines) and I jumped into his 70’s International Scout and gobbled up the miles between Davis and the wine country in search for fruit for some garage wine.  Armed with two (slightly used) plastic garbage cans, picking knives and a few Kilos of HUTZPAH, we sped toward ...

Wine and Surfing Part Deux   It has been a while since I wrote something about the parallels I see between the worlds of surfing and winemaking, so here I go again.  Back around 1981 I was airbrushing and glassing surfboards (painting and applying fiberglass resin) for MOOSAH  on the boardwalk in Tel-Aviv.  Life had a sweet simplicity to it; you had a job to do and as long as ...