Coplandia

Meet Little Ricky the cat. He’s on his 6th or 7th life, for sure. Well-travelled and brave, he splits his time between #Sonoma as a #winecat , San Francisco and #Sausalito. He wants to meet #sukicat . . .... . . . . #fancy #kitty #Abyssinian #catstagram #catsofinstagram #winerycat #cats_of_instagram #fancycat #instacat #snazzycat #sonomacat #farmcat #huntercat See more

Visiting a friend’s new St. Augustine-area beach house. The gardens are wild, sand swept dunes full of life. Palms, grasses, Nesting sea turtles and wild grape vines! Not certain of its precise identification, but Vitus Cinerea Var Floridana and Vitus Rotundifolia ( #Muscadine) and Vitus Riparia are among the grape genus that grow wild in Florida. North America was called Vinland by Leif Erikson and his Viking explorers circa 1000. The first commercial North American grape vi...neyard was planted in the St. Augustine/ Jacksonville area in the 1550s by Spanish explorers. They used native Vitus Rotundifolia, as opposed to the standard wine grape Vitus Vinifera genus. It was a failed winemaking venture - too hot, muggy and wet in Florida and Vinifera is the genus to go, but I love that I stumbled upon this rich history from my hometown and while visiting a friend’s new home! See more

Grass, gravel, bark and a meow... and a few weeds along the way. Ricky’s stomping grounds. #farmcat #winecat

Prepping for the Chardonnay planting. This is what 208.7 feet looks like. 208.7 x 208.7 = ~43,560, an acre. We are planning to plant 2 acres

Delicious Chardonnay on the way!

The heater vent is a nice place to sit when it is cold outside. Back at the #treehouse. #brothers

The owl box is empty over the winter, as the three barn owls who were raised here Are now off to other locations. One is to clean the boxes over the winter so that adults have a clean house to return to in February/March in order to raise another batch!

Check the really efficient bottling assembly-line of the Coplan Vineyards 2017 Harpsichord Chardonnay. Jacqueline Yoakum, winemaker, doing quality control.

This finally happened! We bottled 75 cases of a really wonderful, balanced Chardonnay made from grapes grown right down the street from Coplandia. We will release sometime before Thanksgiving.

Old Cabernet Sauvignon vines meet Gravenstein apple tree!

Ricky checking out the cat condo while Orangey is out hunting. Agapanthus in bloom.

Whoa! Vineyard pest control at its finest!

Found a healthy female Barn Owl nesting with five eggs spread between both Owl boxes that were installed last year. Thank you to Sonoma County Wildlife Rescue

Buzzing within inches of us

Big storm is on its way!

Changing of the leaves #carneros

Tasting with the sommelier after a good day of meetings

Freshly disked vineyard! Grapes in full bloom and an amazing artichoke flower

The lineup.... Will be ready for release in July.

The summer vegetable garden is in

Tiny, beautiful fruit clusters dancing in the Spring breeze

91 points Wine Enthusiast!Congrats to Cynthia Cosco for her Passagio 2013 Merlot from Coplan Vineyards

Bud break! Show off!

Pruning on a beautiful day

Beautiful Day for pruning

Before pruning!

Sniffing the mustard

Now This! First commercial production of Coplan Vineyards Chardonnay! I work here...:)

Mustard, bees and Skipper

2011 and 2012 Merlot on Thanksgiving 2015. Great time with the family

Exquisite fall colors in the vineyard!

Our first year dropping off olives for our olive oil!

Twilight on the eve of.....

This was my greeting home

So much fun being a part of French TV's Échappées belles! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHFku51ddSQ&feature=youtu.be Starting at 19:26

2015- best year ever

This is happening! #2015harvest #merlot #carneros

Tasting the 2015 Merlot. delicious

And you, my beautiful, will get picked next Saturday! #cabernetsauvignon #harvest

Checking out the 2015 Merlot. Delicious! With Linda Trotta and Cindy Cosco

Walkabout before harvest. #refractometer #brix #carneros

Wine grape Destemmer. On the way to making a great Bordeaux varietal

Stems... The leftovers. Neatly, elegantly separated.

Harvest by night

Harvest by night! 5am.. #carneros

Philosophies about food, life and inspiration..on film #dominiquecrenn

Inspiring coverage about education for farmworkers featuring Carlos, my Vineyard foreman and his sister Marisol. https://vimeo.com/glassworldfil/review/136895972/63eeff7c0a

How about them apples? Gravensteins..

Terroir and the grapes they make. Close up

Ripening right before your eyes!

Now this! Coplandia is in the process of launching Coplan Vineyards winery

Sipping in Sonoma - at Coplan Vineyards http://edition.cnn.com//06/09/one-square-meter-sonoma-spc.

Cleaning up the vines! Shoot thinning and suckering the old Cabernet Sauvignon

This will be two rows of corn along the soon-to-be-built prefab farm studio

Baby Grape clusters! Stage 2! #postbudbreak #merlotberrygrowth #carneros

We can do this! Organic weed removal in the vineyard

Bud break at the top of the Merlot block