Thackrey & Company Fine Wine

An Afterwork Snack :: Blistered Shishito peppers with a sprinkle of Himalayan salt and a little glass of Sean Thackrey wine to settle in.

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Dear Friends, I've never thought of myself as particularly favored by the gods. Whoever they may be, my fate with them has been more nuanced than that; in many ways, in fact, it's been pretty tough. http://mailchi.mp/wine-maker/sb7eba18wt-2306445?e=66361af353

The California wine community is organizing to support relief efforts now.

https://www.nytimes.com//california-wildfires-drone-footag We really should have been paying more attention to St. John of Patmos; this may well not be his ow...n particular apocalypse, but it is ours, and we are in it now. Look at these images of a cozy, modest little California "subdivision", tucked away down at the bottom of Santa Rosa (& precisely where the warehouse that ships our wines to private customers happens to be), the kind of place where your Aunt Betty would live, and your annual challenge would be to survive the MiracleWhip on her pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving. Look at it; who, who lived there, and now no longer does, could ever even have feared that this, which has occurred, ever could happen? And yet, consider how relentlessly it is happening elsewhere all around us (more later; had to post something)

Wine-maker, Sean Thackrey, pumping wine from the bottom of a redwood fermenter over the top of the floating cap of grape skins. This process cools the fermentation and infuses the juice with flavors retained by the skin. #wine #crush #fermentation #harvest #winemaking #seanthackrey

Lenny Kravitz, Willem Dafoe, Bruce Dern... Nico Rosberg...Sean Thackrey A few dapper gents featured in a little publication by the name of Esquire Magazine #ACenturyofStyle "What Thackrey has found important over the course of his life: book editing, art dealing, photography, typography, and, since 1979, making some of the most lauded, unusual wine that’s ever come out of California. He does this in part by bucking expectations: buying grapes from other vineyards the way a chef buys produce and eschewing the high-tech, market-tested methods of many of his competitors. I’m basically a lone wolf by nature. I like to start from scratch with pretty much everything, he says.

Smart girl hanging around the harvest bin washing station to glean the scattered fruit.

Still standing in the field, 2017 Andromeda :: pinot noir :: Devil's Gulch Ranch :: Marin County #marincounty #pinotnoir #devilsgulchranch #seanthackrey #californiapinot

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The lovely fruit at #DevilsGulchRanch #Andromeda #pinotnoir #harvest Devils Gulch Ranch