Ep 519: A Year in the Vineyard in Sonoma with Brian Callahan of Crux Winery

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🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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For this show I ask my friend with Brian Callahan, small vineyard farmer and co-owner of Crux Winery in the Russian River Valley of Sonoma (the Middle Reach though – the warmer part, so they do Rhône varietals) to tell us what a year in a Sonoma vineyard looks like. He takes us through what he has been doing for the last 18 years in his vineyard, a three acre plot that produces the beautiful fruit that turns into Crux wine.

This is a real look at what happens in the vineyard over the year to ensure a healthy harvest. We discuss what he can do and what Mother Nature gives or takes away that he may have to deal with!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Wine for Normal People, the Podcasts for People who like Wine for Normal People,
0:10.0	the podcast for people who like wine, but not the snobbery that goes with it.
0:13.2	I'm your host Elizabeth Schneider author of the Wine for Normal People Book and
0:19.3	certified wine dork. You hear me talk about wine Access every week. Now is a time. If you were on the
0:25.2	fence before you got to join the Wine for Normal People Wine Access Wine Club by
0:29.3	going to Wine Access.com slash normal for a limited time.
0:35.0	Join the club and get $25 off your first two shipments.
0:39.4	That's $125 per shipment for six bottles, 10% off all other wine access purchases when you join
0:46.1	the club.
0:47.1	Let me pick out some wine for you.
0:48.2	Go to wine access.com.
0:49.8	Normal's, listening in the middle of the show for more details.
0:54.0	My friend Brian Callahan of Crux in Sonoma
0:58.0	has decided that he is going to tell us the real story behind how a vineyard works.
1:07.0	He is a small vineyard owner.
1:09.4	He has a vineyard at his house, and I asked him, begged begged him give us a real look at what happens in the
1:16.9	vineyard to get good grapes and make the awesome wine that Crocks makes.
1:21.5	Brian talks to me all the time about, you know, what he does in the vineyard,
1:26.1	what he's doing on a day-to-day basis.
1:27.8	And the wines are so good.
1:30.4	I asked him about this and he said,
1:32.0	well, I've only been doing this for 18 years and I'm not really sure if that's enough and blah blah blah
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