What would make you leave the film industry to enter the world of wine? Passion, what else? Jake Gray, General Manager at L’Angolo Estate in the Willamette Valley goes back to day one of the winery operation. Jake is ironically from Davis, California, and UC Davis is well known for producing top winemakers. So why [...]

Jake Gray is the General Manager at L’Angolo Estate in the Willamette Valley in Oregon and he gives us his definition of the term “Dry Farming”

The wine industry relies heavily on equipment and supplies designed to create some fantastic vintages. Pumps, fork lifts, corks, capsules, barrels, optical sorters, the list goes on. Life Between the Vines was invited to the WIN Expo 2019 for the first time. WIN is Wine Industry Network and the expo was a trade show as [...]

It’s not surprising that wine lovers often become winemakers. Sometimes it’s just inevitable. One of the bigger challenges in starting a label is coming up with the name. Winelover and winemaker and owner David Ulbricht gave his winery one of the most unique names we’ve heard. SchöneTal Cellars. For our readers the name is pronounced [...]

In this podcast, SchöneTal Cellars owner Dave Ulbricht defines the term “Pretty, Pretty”

Francis Ford Coppola is well known for wineries in Napa and Sonoma and not so long ago he expanded to Oregon. Domaine de Broglie sits in the Dundee Hills above the Willamette Valley offering exceptional estate wines. Dave Petterson is Winemaker dand General Manager and we met up with him at the tasting room a [...]

In this issue of Vino Lingo winemaker Dave Petterson of Domaine de Broglie in the Willamette Valley defines the term “Double Dry”

Every couple of years, Australian winemakers tour the US offering some underrated and exceptinal wines. This year, the wines were tasted at the Chicago Athletic Association where we met with Yangarra Estate winemaker Pete Fraser. Pete was great fun to chat with and he was very kind to give us a bit of time before [...]

After having a previous life with what some would say is a normal job, James Frey made the jump to grape grower, and then to winemaker. Is winemaking not a normal job you may ask? Well, it’s a combination of agriculture, manufacturing, distribution and politics. Not to mention living in the past, the present and [...]

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