| DeVine Consultants
provides Custom Home Vineyards® and complete
vineyard
installation and maintenance
throughout California. Our production company
is dedicated to providing high-quality vineyard services, from installation
to harvest. For aspiring and experienced winegrowers and winemakers
anywhere, our consultations
offer guidance and troubleshooting. Vineyard in a Van is our boutique shopping service designed to fully equip any size operation. Our classes go anywhere and cover everything about grapes and wines. Similarly, our publications range from the general to the esoteric
about anything wine. Check out our newsletter for fun
and informative topics.
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Microwinery
is dedicated to making wine that reflects the vineyards where the grapes
were grown. Our wines are made in vineyard
discrete lots. As much as physically possible, one vineyard produces
one wine, and efficiency be damned. Prior to bottling, the
microwinery crew has fun trying all kinds of vineyard blends to see what will be best, with
preconceived notions not allowed. Sometimes we go a little crazy and
mix seemingly weird concoctions that surprise even us. Whether a
single estate, or a blend of plantings, we present each vineyard at its
finest. We are proud to say our wines are
old-school, resisting the modern 'Mondovino' approach currently in fashion.
Minimum handling is our credo, as most manipulations further remove the wine
from the vineyard. Of course, our standards begin in the vineyard with
balanced, healthy vines harvested at their peak of maturity. One key
we have discovered is that the smaller the vineyard, the less variation in
the fruit. The less the fruit is averaged, the better the resulting
wine. This is one of many reasons that small is big when referring to
wine quality. |