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Willow Creek District of Paso Robles, CA The Central and Northern regions of California experienced very heavy rainfall throughout the winter and into the spring season resulting in a later bud break. Coupled with reasonable summer temperatures, harvests were 2 to 4 weeks behind normal. We had a couple of…

Heath Family Estate wines are sourced from our estate vineyards at Grape Creek Vineyards and Invention Vineyards, both of which fall within the Texas Hill Country AVA. The key phrase for this 2023 growing season for our estate vineyards was “Heat.” While we experienced more rainfall this Spring than in…

The Napa Valley and Sonoma areas are a near doppelganger of Paso Robles. Average temperatures are generally lower in the North Coast than the Central Coast, but the comparison otherwise is very similar. Yield levels and maturity progressions seem more variable this year than what we typically see with some…

The word for the Texas High Plains for 2023 was “Hail.” Two late hailstorms wreaked havoc on some of the vineyard blocks resulting in a zero harvest. Many of our growers’ vineyards now use hail netting, which worked well in locations where netted. The hail was also geographically inconsistent. Some…