Field notes

The journal.

What we're pouring, picking, building, and arguing about. Updates as they happen — vintages, vineyard mornings, tasting-room nights, the cellar between.
Newly installed trellis rows with young vines establishing; one worker walks the site under overcast Ashland skies.

Newly installed trellis rows with young vines establishing; one worker walks the site under overcast Ashland skies.

Young vine pushes past its cardboard tube in a newly planted block above the Rogue Valley floor.

Young vine pushes past its cardboard tube in a newly planted block above the Rogue Valley floor.

Vineyard work in early spring, tying canes on the hillside above Ashland with the Siskiyous still holding snow.

Vineyard work in early spring, tying canes on the hillside above Ashland with the Siskiyous still holding snow.

Dormant vine rows on the Ashland hillside, fog pooling in the Rogue Valley below the Siskiyous.

Dormant vine rows on the Ashland hillside, fog pooling in the Rogue Valley below the Siskiyous.

Vine rows at dusk, mountains holding the last light behind the canopy.

Vine rows at dusk, mountains holding the last light behind the canopy.

Rogue Valley vines catch late-afternoon light against the Siskiyou foothills, southern Oregon wine country at its least sentimental.

Rogue Valley vines catch late-afternoon light against the Siskiyou foothills, southern Oregon wine country at its least sentimental.

Vine rows at peak canopy, Ashland hillside framed against the Siskiyous in late-afternoon light.

Vine rows at peak canopy, Ashland hillside framed against the Siskiyous in late-afternoon light.

Rogue Valley vine rows catch late-afternoon light below the Siskiyou foothills, Ashland AVA.

Rogue Valley vine rows catch late-afternoon light below the Siskiyou foothills, Ashland AVA.

Rogue Valley floor vines in early-season leaf-out, mountains stacked behind under a working sky.

Rogue Valley floor vines in early-season leaf-out, mountains stacked behind under a working sky.

Veraison in progress on red clusters at the Resistance estate block, skins still breaking color.

Veraison in progress on red clusters at the Resistance estate block, skins still breaking color.