The Napa Valley ag preerve in its inception was quite controversial. The clip below tells of the two different sides by my father Louis P Martini and John Daniels of Inglenook. Interesting piece of history. […]
A Winemaker dinner I performed about 25 years ago was held at the Embassy suites in Orange County. I should have been suspicious of the lack of preparation that went into this dinner but the […]
My family, the Louis M Martini Family, and the Wente Family have done business for decades in the past. The Wentes had a propensity for white wines and my family for reds wines. That concept […]
Jack Frost has a pretty devastating effect on new growth in the vineyard. Usually in March and April if he drops the temperature to below 32 degrees F the young buds can burn and die. […]
Since wine starts with the vine so will I. My first vine related memory was our Pinot Noir clonal story. When I was born we lived on the Stanley Ranch in Carneros at the end […]
When I was a kid grapes were picked into 50 pound lug wood boxes. They would be stacked at the end of the row and someone would come buy on a tractor pulling a trailer […]
