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This weekend is one of my favorite events in Sonoma County: 1. This is the 14th year that the event has been put on by the 1.? This year we?re preparing one of my favorite dishes, red wine braised short ribs with truffled celery root puree. We?ll be
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The 2012 1 is starting to wrap up for Kendall-Jackson. We?re bringing in the tail end of the Cabernet Sauvignon, and planning to pick some Merlot next week, but after that we?ll be just about ready to wrap this Harvest. In the meantime, we wanted to share
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We recognize that it?s not all about us. As company made up of everyday people who are consumers too, from time to time we?ll share with you what we learn about the sustainable marketplace as we do with our own team. It?s fairly easy to make earth
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Sometimes when our winemakers are out in the vineyards they encounter the local wildlife. We 1 on our properties to support local ecosystems. With that in mind,? it?s not unusual for us to see owls, deer, or even rattlesnakes in our vineyards. But this bear track? Notice how it
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How do you pick your wine? What do you consider when you?re in the store or at a restaurant and you?re ready for that glass or bottle??There are a lot of things to consider: what goes well with friends? Is this a business meeting or are you
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We?re over a month into Harvest and grapes are still coming fast and furious into the winery.? In fact, 2012 is turning out to be one of the largest crops in years, thanks to a summer of great weather. In a normal year we use a lot of energy
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I was driving to office early this morning just as the sun was rising and couldn?t help but notice that there was a party in the sky above the Kendall Jackson Wine Center. There was a whole bevy of hot air balloons hovering over our vineyards and the tasting
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When you install solar panels on your roof it?s easy to understand where your renewable electricity is coming from. It gets more confusing if you decide to pay your 1. It?s even harder to understand what?s up if you buy renewable energy certificates, or RECs, from a
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Earlier this year winemaker 1. While he was there the barrel makers let him do something that he can never do around the winery:? play with fire. What he?s actually doing is toasting a barrel in order to enhance the wine that?ll one day rest there. Toasting a
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When we do a ?good deed? in a personal relationship do we assign a value to that good deed? Sure, there?s the unwritten social contract of ?pay it forward,? but we don?t really keep a balance sheet of how many unselfish acts we perform for friends or family
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One of the truly great things about Sonoma County is that you never know just what sort of views you might come across. This is particularly true for our winemakers during Harvest. They travel from vineyard to vineyard checking on the grapes getting ready to pick grapes as the sugars
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At this year?s 1, we added a wonderful charity dinner to benefit the Cooking with Kids Foundation. We invited some of our 1 to cook for and each host a table of guests. We were extremely happy to have Guy Fieri and Mario Batali at this dinner in the