

Vineyard Update - Winter Pre-Pruning
While the vines are dormant, we always pre-prune the vines. This means we go through the vineyard and cut the prior year's canes down to...


Two New Releases!
Announcing the releases of our 2018 Merlot and 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon. The Merlot was a wine we made from a buy of grapes from our...


Griffin Hill Survives The Fire
The lightning strikes that took place during the early pre-dawn hours of Sunday August 16th were a thankfully rare event, as there was...


Clean Clusters
Our Chardonnay plan for 2020 is a move toward an even more delicate and citrusy wine. To accomplish this, we start with the cleanest...


Mustard Seeds Added to Our Crops
For years, we enjoyed having the mustard as a spring cover crop, but we never harvested it. This year we harvested it, got the seeds and...


The Road to Great Chardonnay - In The Field
The winter is behind us and the vines got enough rain this year to get them through the growing season. We pruned as the rains ended and...


First Owl Box
Watch out gophers! The first of our owl boxes is now in place. Barn owl mating season is about to begin and we wanted to make sure we...


Launch of The Griffin Hill Wine Club
After a mailing to virtually everyone in my address book, we gathered up a core group of friends that want to be the "founders" of the...


PG&E Power Shut Down
I've heard from some of you asking if the PG&E power shutdown included Griffin Hill. Yes, it did and yes there were some pretty high...


The First Harvest of Our New Cabernet Block
After waiting the standard three years for our new Cabernet Sauvignon vines in our newly redone lower section, we netted the vines to...