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LWGA Colleagues,

We at Captain Vineyards are offering our grapes this year as our winemaker Sal Captain has a knee injury. We might have not met some of you yet, so here is a little bit about us.

We’re a founding member of LWGA and I served 15 years on the board. We operate a micro boutique (~350 cases per year) family vineyard and winery rated 5 stars on Google, Yelp and Trip Advisor. In 2005, we planted six red, French varieties, naturally grown and dry-farmed on our Moraga hillside in clay loam soil.

Below is an approximation of the amount available, and producing an expected 6 tons this year:

Petite Sirah –  Est. Tons: 3.0 Vine Count: 1200 Clone: 03NM Rootstock: 3309C
Petit Verdot – Est. Tons: 1.5 Vine Count: 700 Clone: 400 Rootstock: 101-14
Cabernet Sauvignon – Est. Tons: 0.9 Vine Count: 200 Clone: 169 Rootstock: 420
Cabernet Franc – Est. Tons: 0.5 Vine Count: 700 Clone: 214BE Rootstock: 3309
Pinot Noir – Est. Tons: 0.8 Vine Count: 700 Clone: 115BE Rootstock: 101-14
Grenache – (negligible) Vine Count: 50

We’ve won county and statewide recognition for our green and sustainable practices.

NBC “California live” at Captain Vineyards

Please contact us to arrange a visit to our vineyard/winery to discuss details and logistics!

Cheers!

Susan Captain

www.captainvineyards.com

Email us: sara@captainvineyards.com, Call or Text us: 415-960-7053

Connecting vineyard practices to wine quality

The Napa Valley Grapegrowers invites members of the Lamorinda Wine growers association to this annual event. ROOTSTOCK 2019, Hosted at the Napa Valley Expo!

On Thursday, November 14th

575 Third Street — Napa, CA 9:00 A.M.-3:30 P.M.

They have sent LWGA 8 complimentary trade-show-only tickets, $50 value, and are pleased to extend the NVG member price on the All-Access Pass to our members. Click on the industry association partner registration link at:

www.ROOTSTOCKNapa.org

Please Contact Susan Captain for tickets, pick up at Captain Vineyards in Moraga, 1969 Joseph Dr.

susan@captainvineyards.com

First come first served!!

Dear fellow growers and winemakers,

For those who attended, it was a pleasure to celebrate the season with you, for those who were not able to attend, we had a very celebratory evening with many members and quite a number of the community!! We had many local wines presented to the public plus, Music with Diamond Dave was fantastic and the food was great!!  Each received a LWGA glass to take home too!  what a deal….

Now that we are coming close to the end of the year two things we need to do:

1-  Please email susan@captainvineyards.com, the amount of grapes you harvested in 2018, we would like to add the total tonnage of  Lamorinda AVA grapes, to be included in the Contra Costa County crop report.

2-   Selecting the team that will Manage your vineyard in 2019.  We for sure, recommend that the vineyard management  team will be using best sustainable practices.  Using sustainable practices is part of LWGA’s mission.  We encourage you to talk with your vineyard managers and ask them to adhere, as best as possible, to these practices, it is good for us, our community, environment and we believe it is economically viable to do so.   Below is a team that you might want to reach out to for your 2019 vineyard management.  They manage around 14 vineyards in the Lamorinda Area.

Dylan Rahn

Coastal Viticultural Consultants
Vineyard Manager/Viticulturist
Mobile: (707)-337-9893
Email: Drahn@coastalvit.com

With that, we wish you a safe, enjoyable and jolly rest of the year and look forward to a more exciting and productive 2019

Fellow growers & winemakers,

We encourage you to attend this meeting of the AAUW Orinda, Moraga and Lafayette Branch

This meeting is open to the public, right here in our back yard!!

TUESDAY, November 13

9:30-11:30 AM
Orinda Community Church
Fellowship Hall, 10 Irwin Way, Orinda

AAUW FUND presents

KARA LEONG

2017-18 AAUW Fund Recipient
of a Career Development Grant
She will discuss her

Research on wine and the efforts to reduce fungicides in the industry

The Web page for our AAUW-OML Branch can be viewed at
http://oml-ca.aauw.net/

President: Denise Burian
Triad Editor: Mary Leigh Miller
Website Editor:Bonnie Gallogly

On Thursday, November 8th, vineyards & winery owners, will gather for the ROOTSTOCK 2018 at the Napa Valley College.  This event will include cutting-edge, educational experiences from the event partners exhibits to top-quality, provocative panel discussions on viticulture, winemaking, and technology & innovation.

Napa Valley College – 2277 Napa-Vallejo Hwy  11AM-5PM   + Happy Hour 5PM-7PM     ———– $100.00 Per person

Lamorinda Wine Growers Association members are invited to attend this exciting industry event.  The Napa Valley Grape growers are pleased to share a 25% discount with our members who would like to attend the full day program:

Here is the link to get your 25% discount

Discount CODE: LWA

https://napagrowers.ejoinme.org/MyEvents/2018ROOTSTOCK/SponsorshipIndustryPartnersRegistrationA

We hope that you would take advantage of this event!!

Cheers to all of you for the END of 2018 HARVEST!!!!