One From The heart

June 26, 2010

Most mornings I have my coffee and walk the vineyards around my house with my dog, a ten year-old Aussie Shepherd named “Bear”.  This is as close a replacement I could find to what I’d rather be doing first thing in the morning which is paddling to a right point peeler in tropical waters.  For [...]

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Another season begins

June 24, 2010

Just as we enter the “no-surf” season on the shores of the North Coast (summer brings windy days with choppy, small waves around here), we start to get an idea of what this fall’s harvest may look like.  If you live here or kept in touch, you probably know we farmers were predicting gloom and [...]

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SANTA CRUZ

June 20, 2010

Last Thursday Michael and Oded teamed up with Clif and Co. at the Cava Capitola wine Bar for a fun evening of Longboard Wines, great nibbles and even greater company. Guests were offered a flight of 3 wines for $10 – our 2008 Sauvignon Blanc, the 2007 Dakine Merlot and the 2007 Point Break Blend. [...]

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Martha’s Vineyard Affair

June 6, 2010

Just as the California coast hits the dolldrums of summer, our East Coast Ninja, Tom Clare made sure Longboard made some waves in the first California Wine Affair in Martha’s Vineyard. Nice to see our friends and neighbours there too.

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Grassroots

May 20, 2010

We always go out of our way and try to support non-profit organizations.  Being a winery, we get about two requests per week for donations; anything from the local little league and police officers association all the way to national and multi-national organizations.  Other than having fun, we are also running a business… so we just [...]

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Weekend Gallery Taking Shape

May 18, 2010

Just to say that the Barrel Room is getting slowly transformed to  contain the weekend festivities… here is a link to the ESPN blog entry.  Hope to meet many of you on the weekend!

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Russian River In Los Angeles

May 9, 2010

The Russian River Valley Winegrowers dinner took place in Santa Monica on Thursday, May 6th at Valentino’s.  Joseph Swan, Inman, Iron Horse, Pappaietro Perry and Longboard Vineyards were chosen by Pierro Selvagio to participate in the dinner that was meant to showcase the best of the appellation.  It just happenned that the 38 year old [...]

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How to make a traditional Taboon (Beduin outdoor oven)

May 6, 2010

For your next beach BBQ; you’ll need two or three cinder-blocks and a convex metal disk (hub-cap, old steel drum, disk-plow pieces, whatever you have lying around). Dig a hole, place cinder blocks on both sides, put disk over the top and make a small fire underneath. It helps to have a girl with this [...]

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Bottling Time

May 4, 2010

Just Finished bottling the 2007 RRV Syrah and some other goodies to be released in the fall.  Watch the action on the video!

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Further Adventures of the Wine Guy

April 22, 2010

Surf’s up in Illinois Hey Midwestern surfers! We are excited to announce that the Longboard presence in Illinois is expanding! We’ve got a great new distributor—Winebow—who will be putting our wines on shelves and wine lists at the finest establishments. If you’re looking for our wine in Illinois and can’t find it, call 773-596-2800 to [...]

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