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There’s a reason why you don’t find many production winemaking blogs. Winemakers are busy.

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winemaking productionJennifer AndersonMay 5, 2025KNA Wine
Shoot Thinning in the Vineyard:  Spring 2025 Growing Season
Shoot Thinning in the Vineyard: Spring 2025 Growing Season

Walk with us through the vineyard as Kristof talks about the most important part of his job as a winemaker: sculpting the vines.

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Jennifer AndersonMay 5, 2025
Light, Fresh, Healthy: The Cuisine of Sauvignon Blanc
Light, Fresh, Healthy: The Cuisine of Sauvignon Blanc

Want to eat healthier? Sauvignon Blanc can help.

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Jennifer AndersonApril 14, 2025
Americana: Search for Lost Flavors
Americana: Search for Lost Flavors

Shepherd’s Pie, Meatloaf, Hangtown Fry. We’ve got a wine for that.

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Jennifer AndersonMarch 14, 2025
The Best Gifts From the Napa Valley
The Best Gifts From the Napa Valley

It’s not as easy as you’d think to dodge the tourist traps and find unique gifts that reflect Napa Valley terroir. Here are a few of our favorite picks.

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Jennifer AndersonJanuary 7, 2025
Wine Country Home Cooking: Desserts
Wine Country Home Cooking: Desserts

We’re not dessert people (or so we tell ourselves). And yet. Wine Country desserts are part of seasonal eating.

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Jennifer AndersonNovember 13, 2024dessert, wine country home cooking
Always on Hand: Staples of the Wine Country Kitchen
Always on Hand: Staples of the Wine Country Kitchen

The sauces, salsas, romescos, and pestos that make me look like a culinary genius when time is short.

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Jennifer AndersonOctober 28, 2024
Top Pairings:  Mexican Cuisine & Sauvignon Blanc
Top Pairings: Mexican Cuisine & Sauvignon Blanc

Would you squeeze a lime on it? Then consider pairing your meal with Sauvignon Blanc.

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food and wine pairingJennifer AndersonOctober 27, 2024Mexican food, sauvignon blanc
These Wines Were Made for Pairing – Pairing Aged Cabernet Sauvignon with Food
These Wines Were Made for Pairing – Pairing Aged Cabernet Sauvignon with Food

Why aged Cabernet Sauvignon is the hot new thing in food and wine pairing.

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Jennifer AndersonSeptember 23, 2024
How We Picnic
How We Picnic

Sandwiches are the perfect, portable picnic food. Here’s where we eat our favorite sandwiches in the Napa Valley.

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Jennifer AndersonJune 7, 2024
If I Promise to Cook Less, Will You Come Over More?
If I Promise to Cook Less, Will You Come Over More?

“Actionable” 3-course menus for easy Wine Country entertaining.

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menusJennifer AndersonMay 25, 2024
Wine Country Home Cooking: Our Garden
Wine Country Home Cooking: Our Garden

The story of our garden, why Sauvignon Blanc is the gardener’s wine, plus recipe cards for wine country home cooking.

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Jennifer AndersonMay 10, 2024
Speak Softly to the Skunk
Speak Softly to the Skunk

What do you do when you wake up to the sound of kittens mewing in the crawl space under your house? You find them homes - as winery cats, of course.

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Jennifer AndersonJanuary 12, 2024
 Aphrodisiacs
Aphrodisiacs

Why your Valentine’s Day dinner and wine matter.

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Jennifer AndersonDecember 10, 2023
The Wine Industry's Nervous Breakdown
The Wine Industry's Nervous Breakdown

What will the wine industry look like in 2040 if the World Health Organization gets its way? And what’s REALLY behind their statement this year that NO level of alcohol consumption is safe?

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Jennifer AndersonNovember 19, 2023
Like Beef and Cabernet
Like Beef and Cabernet

Steak and Cabernet Sauvignon? Yes, please. Here are two fantastic ways we fix our steaks when it’s too rainy to grill outside (though a little rain has never stopped us!).

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Jennifer AndersonNovember 18, 2023steak and Cabernet
Harvest 2023 - Vineyard Balancing & Canopy Management
Harvest 2023 - Vineyard Balancing & Canopy Management

There’s lots of chatter about harvest 2023 in the Napa Valley. Here’s what they’re not telling you.

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Jennifer AndersonOctober 15, 2023
If You Have the Guts
If You Have the Guts

Tasting wine, really tasting it, demands stillness, the stopping of time, and going inward. Confidence, too. It’s a different spin on the idea, in vino veritas.

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Jennifer AndersonFebruary 12, 2023wine tasting, blind tasting, sensory intelligence
Cold Glue, Hot Wires
Cold Glue, Hot Wires

A conversation with Kristof about the hazards of production winemaking - from a nostalgic & humorous perspective.

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mobile bottling trucks, winemaking productionJennifer AndersonAugust 17, 2022
SANNA:  A Sauvignon Blanc Story
SANNA: A Sauvignon Blanc Story

What launching a new Sauvignon Blanc label during COVID-19 shutdowns taught me about cold fermentation.

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winemaking philosophy, wine label design, innovative wine packaging, wine label artJennifer AndersonJune 22, 2020KNA Winescold fermentation, aromatic white wine, sauvignon blanc
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