Author: cairdean
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The Farmer & The Fox restaurant is now OPEN
The Farmer & The Fox Restaurant opened very quietly to the public for dinner on Thursday June 5th and is now open nightly from 5pm to 10pm. I have officially dined there more than a handful of times since opening night and sometimes find myself dreaming of the smoked duck wings, freshly baked popovers, game…
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Bloom time in wine country
Rain, rain, we’re glad you came! It has been a stressful spring in the vineyard. With almost no winter rains, the ground began warming up in early February and we all thought it was going to be the earliest bud-break ever. With no rain in sight, many of us started irrigating in January. This is…
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Tour de Cure Napa Sunday May 4, 2014
Team Cairdean will be riding (not racing) again this year in the annual Tour de Cure to benefit the American Diabetes Association. Please join our team and participate in the event or donate to our fundraising efforts to help advance the research to stop diabetes. Team Cairdean has begun training on Sundays by riding along Silverado Trail and Hwy…
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Food for Thought: Pairings and Palate Changers
One of the most common questions that people in the wine industry hear is “what food will go well with this wine?” The answer to this topic has been thrown back and forth between sensory analysts for years, but now most can agree with at least a few basic guidelines to food and wine pairing.…
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New Release: 2012 Napa Valley Pinot Grigio
We are proud to announce the release of Cairdean’s first ever Pinot Grigio and offer our best wishes for a happy and prosperous new year with a 20.14% discount on all Pinot Grigio purchases with coupon code PGFNY14 from now until January 11th. In the glass, light reveals a strikingly brilliant pale yellow wine. On the nose, aromatics most…
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A 2013 Christmas Poem
A 2013 Christmas Poem ‘Twas the week before Christmas, when all through the cellar, the barrels o’ Chard need not stirring, and the barrel racks no welder. The hoses were hung upside down by the staircase with care, in hopes that St. Trifon The Pruner soon would be there. The red wines in barrels were…
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Haley’s Wine and the Breath of Life Gala
Haley’s Wine and the Breath of Life Gala, Saturday November 2, 2013 the Cairdean Wine team will be sponsoring the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s annual Breath of Life Gala at the Four Seasons Hotel in San Francisco. We will also be releasing our newest Napa Valley wine Haley Margaret which was created to honor and celebrate…
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A Tale of 2 Harvests
So far, this harvest has been a bit of a roller coaster: it was hot, it was cold, it was rainy and then those weather patterns started all over again. It seems like thing are leveling out and, here at the winery we are getting a little break before a lot more fruit starts rolling…
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When to harvest you ask?
When to harvest you ask? That is a great question and one which we ask ourselves many many times each and every day…. Harvest is arguably the most beautiful time of the year in Napa Valley (it is difficult to discount mustard season of course). Now the leaves of the trees turn majestic auburn colors…
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Harvest 2013 has begun (and with a bang)!
Move over bottling.. that was so last week! Cairdean Vineyards kicked off harvest this year (just yesterday September the 3rd) with a pre-dawn pick of Riesling grapes from the Suisun Valley for our sweetheart of a wine Leannan. Leannan is Gaelic for sweetheart and is an apt name for this wine as it is fermented…