Chris Turkovich 🍇🥩🍾

Always fresher at night. We even had a brief thunder storm with some wild lightning, just enough ran to knock the dust down, great way to welcome in September. #herecomesfall

Next generation of grape stompers in action. The Turkovich girls are showing their city boys cousins how work gets done at the winery. #family #kidsworking #farmlife

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Labor continues to get harder to find and more expensive. Over the last few years we have moved from 100% hand harvesting our grapes to now we are 90% mechanical harvesting. The machines today are surprisingly gentle on the vines and the fruit. And we are able to get the grapes to the winery much quicker so the fruit is colder and we get a better cold soak prior to the fermentation starting. #nostrag #harvest #farmmachines https://blossom.primal.net/848fa1a3e27208f13d563467f02347ca9b283e82a6ccf12b13e23521a50e0720.mov

Hill side Cabernet Sauvignon hand picked today. This will keep us busy for the day. Mild weather has been amazing and much appreciated.

Syrah picked loaded. Winery here we come

Farmer tip of the day. Welding with crappie gloves has consequences

So sad, and obviously corrupt. https://aelc.assembly.ca.gov/proposed-congressional-map Spend a little time and take a look. I got involved in the redistricting last time around and it shocked me. It was the most openly corrupt process I have witnessed in local politics. Looking at these maps you don’t have to be particularly partisan to see this is gerrymandering. Some obvious issues, take a look at district 02. And well as Paso Robles. As well as the district I’m in, 04. Yuba City to Santa Rosa. We might as well be in different states.

Mid summer swing. Fermentations are rolling. Albariño, Roussanne and Viognier are all in the tanks and bubbling away. A nice break before the reds startup

Best empanadas outside of Argentina

Albariño sampling this morning, looks like it will be ready early next week. Sugar and acid are developing perfectly and the canopy and clusters are in great shape.

First day of the 2025 vintage. Harvest underway. Lining up to be a great year.

Last call for lambs for the 2025 season. Top quality meat raised regeneratively in our orchards and vineyard We have a few left unsold for this season. All grass fed/finished. 15% discount for BTC purchases. https://turkovichwines.com/product-category/62/ DM me if you are interested, we can ship within the entire USA

Mourvèdre grapes ripening beautifully.

Friends and fellow prune farmers from Chile visited us today. It was interesting to reminisce I worked in Chile back in 2007. Back then Argentina was a socialist hell hole and had no future and Chile was the shining star of South America and a model from more the rest of the continent. Fast forward and today Argentina is on a fast track to a free market model for the rest of the developed world and Chile is regressing into a socialist backwater of South America. The world and time are fascinating

Summer sunset. Enjoying a little downtime before harvest starts. Monday tomatoes start. 1-2 weeks and grapes will get started and prunes shortly there after.

Super excited to have partnered with nostr:nprofile1qqsvrzpjh8khtfrg0gxdhf052kvsqj7p88sx8wr8u8622lsp82w96ns6s3skh and supplying some wine to help advance BTC. Keep up the good work

Summer is here: cover crops have dried up. The residual crop residue has formed and armor protecting the soil. Keeping the soil temperature lower and the warm dry air circulates through the vines and keeps mildew pressure non existent. The clusters are developing nicely and ideal growing season so far

Pollinators out in full force on the artichokes