Writer: Wes Hagen

(Another) Year in the Vineyard With Wes Hagen, Clos Pepe Vineyard Week #28:  September 17-23, 2010 The Heat Arrives, Harvest Begins with Old Friends, New Friends Well it was bound to happen. 

(Another) Year in the Vineyard Blog With Wes Hagen, VM/WM Clos Pepe Week #27: September 10-16 Loving the Weather, Testing the Grapes, Time for a Cocktail! To be honest, I can’t remember

(Another) Year in the Vineyard, Week #26:  September 3-9, 2010 The Winery is Ready, The Grapes are Not! Welcome, once again to another episode of ‘Year in the Vineyard’.  Well, we’re counting

(Another) Year in the Vineyard with Wes Hagen, Clos Pepe Week #25: August 27th – September 2nd, 2010 “September Morn: We Picked Until the Night Became a Brand New Day” Damn!  September

(Another) Year in the Vineyard Week #24: August 20-26, 2010 With Wes Hagen, Clos Pepe Summer Arrives Before It’s Over:  Sparkling Harvest Soon! A Week in the Winery:  the Crew Comes Together!

Year in the Vineyard With Wes Hagen, Clos Pepe Vineyards and Estate Wines Welcome once again to the Year in the Vineyard Blog.  We continue with our new High Def video blogs,

(Another) Year in the Vineyard, Week #22 August 6-12, 2010 With Wes Hagen, VM/WM Clos Pepe Welcome back to a Year in the Vineyard, Week #22.  Even though the weather has continued

(Another) Year in the Vineyard Week #21, July 30-August 5, 2010 With Wes Hagen, Clos Pepe Welcome to the new generation Year in the Vineyard Blog!  Last week I bought a High

Another Year in the Vineyard, Week #20 July 23-29, 2010 With Wes Hagen, VM/WM Clos Pepe The Vintage Tiptoes Forward: At dinner the other night I ran into my first interns, Ariel

Chardonnay is a grape varietal that has an identity crisis. She is both a rock star and a charlatan, a soft spoken ballerina and a brazen harlot, generic as a white label

July 16-22, 2010 Wes Hagen, VM/WM Clos Pepe Vineyard and Estate Wines This morning the vineyard’s technology level has been thrown back to 1990, and we’re feeling the sting. Carrying my cup

Another Year in the Vineyard, Week #18 July 8-15, 2009 By Wes Hagen, VM/WM Clos Pepe Vintage:  The 2010 vintage rolls along and gets a bump of heat.  Temps warmed from the

Winemaker Magazine (Another) Year in the Vineyard Wine Blog Week #17:  July 2nd-July 8th, 2010 The Theme is Diversity:  Genetics, Critters, Fog, Flavor, and Darwin  (amazingly described in the context of growing

(Another) Year in the Vineyard:  The Two Week Edition:  Week 15 and 16:  June 18 – July 1, 2010 San Fran, Big Sur, and Back to the Ranch!   The vintage is

Year in the Vineyard with Wes Hagen, VM Clos Pepe Week #14: June 10-17, 2010 The Birth of an American Viticultural Area Let’s take a slightly different view of the wine world

WineMaker Magazine (Another) Year in the Vineyard with Wes Hagen, Clos Pepe Week #13, June 4-June 10, 2010 On the Shoulders of Giants, Another AVA, All Things Green, Clustering and Clucking Welcome

Year in the Vineyard, by Wes Hagen VM/WM Clos Pepe Week #12: May 28- June 3, 2010 Budi-Licious Cuisine, The White Horse, the Green Tractor, Fruit and Frogs   My day has

  Year in the Vineyard Wine Blog, Week #11 By Wes Hagen, VM/WM Clos Pepe May 20-27, 2010 (Don’t forget to scroll over the pics for commentary) My trip to Stevenson, Washington

Year in the Vineyard Week #10 Wes Hagen. Clos Pepe Vineyards May 14-20, 2010 First, let me vent.  I’m pissed.  Really, really really angry right now.  After teaching a five hour class

Another Year in the Vineyard, Week #9 May 7-14, 2010 By: Wes Hagen, VM/WM Clos Pepe (Don’t forget to mouse over the images to get a few extra nuggets of useless information!)

I plan to take a different tact with this week’s blog. I’m down in Temecula judging wine at Riverside International Wine Competition, getting a little writing in as the judges take their

(Another) Year in the Vineyard, Week #7 April 23-30, 2010 Irrigation, Fertilization and Pinot Petioles According to my desk calendar, last week was supposed to be pretty mellow.  On more than one

Year in the Vineyard, Week #6 April 15-22, 2010 By Wes Hagen, VM/WM Clos Pepe This week in the vineyard saw some challenges, some rebirth, some rainfall, some progress, and as always

 (Another) Year in the Vineyard Wine Blog, Week #5 April 9-15, 2010 Viticulturama, Why Technology Matters, A Lamb By Any Other Name, Another Version of the LA Times Magazine Article. A Few

(Another) Year in the Vineyard, Week #4 A WineMaker Magazine Blog April 2-April 8, 2010 What Is Done Can’t Be Undone, Or Can It? More Cuteness than You can Shake a Crook