we are bottling! the bottling truck arrives, august 21, 2017. it's a tight squeeze backing into our narrow driveway but with a little guidance it made it through. now to get the wine into the bottles. picking up the empty bottles this contraption grabs the empty bottles...
looks neat and orderly, right? but this zin-yard, planted in 2006 with four different kinds of zinfandel (officially called clones), looks quite different after each harvest. each plant becomes a jungle of shoots and leaves. last year’s growth must go over the winter, last year’s long shoots...
there’s always something good and new happening at satori. maybe we don’t have any choice about that since we’re located at the corner of buena vista avenue and new avenue. but this time things are literally buzzing. there’s a b in satori see that unassuming box beneath...
you may know that the name “satori” is an anagram of the first two letters of the first names of the three founders of the winery. SA for Sandy, TO for Tom, and RI for son Riley. Tom thought he had made the name up...
this shot was actually taken a few years ago by a real plane, pilot and photographer. we have 20 acres total, with 15 acres of happy, pampered grapes. the first 1,000 vines planted in 2000 -- the right hand side of the image -- were...