April 5, 2023
By Alan Goldfarb It’s almost too easy, when ruminating about the weather – which is perhaps the most integral element in growing wine grapes – to idyllically think of those myriad song lyrics: “Singin’ in the Rain …” and “I Love a Rainy Night …” But more germane right now to the California wine industry – and certainly to us here at Cordant – we’re singing, “Rain, rain go away,…
February 23, 2023
The Life of a Winery When Crush is Crushed By Alan Goldfarb “It’s like the football season. You prepare for three months – and then you do all the work. And then you’re organizing for the next year.” – Defensive Tackle Scott Stelzle, Brockport State – Winemaker Scott Stelzle, Cordant Winery If you thought that after football, I mean harvest season, at a winery it means the work is finished,…
January 24, 2023
The Experienced Winemaker Just Finished His 1st Vintage for Cordant BY ALAN GOLDFARB Scott Stelzle has been making wine in Paso Robles for more than 20 years. For the 2022 vintage for Cordant, Scott, who is also an experienced pilot of vintage WWII airplanes, traveled more than 10,000 miles up and down the California Central Coast in his pickup. He visited every one of Cordant’s 17 vineyard sources – which gave…