According to the National Climatic Data Center, January is the wettest month of the year here in Healdsburg. On average, we receive between 8 -9 inches of rain at the start of each year.  And even when the forecast calls for clear skies, which it has all this week, there is still a morning layer […]

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This past month of January was one of the driest on record here in Sonoma County.  Year to date rainfall is an abysmal 2.25 inches compared to 13.09 inches last year (which was already dry as hell).  That being said, we are starting to see some water falling from the heavens.  Looking at the forecast, […]

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The rain here is different than the rain I grew up with in Arkansas. I never really considered that there were different kinds of rain and it reminds me of that poem about the stars of the southern hemisphere being so foreign. Ah…not that I’m some regretful imperialist here in wine country. Perhaps I’m just […]

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