A wooden fencepost, its yellow paint faded with time, points from Wilridge Vineyard down the winery trail into Cowiche Canyon. On this snow-hushed morning, our boots make the only sound, crunching in the snow as we descend through the shrub steppe toward the creek that cut this canyon from the landscape long ago. Clumps of […]
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A Two-Season Weekend
When we wake up Sunday in the spare bedroom above the tasting room, the light from the windows is so bright that I think it’s noon. Afraid we missed the morning’s pressing—Touriga Nacional was supposed to go into the crusher today—I fish around for my phone. Elena looks out the window. “Snow!” she cries. It’s […]