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WELCOME!
I could show you all kinds of pictures of pretty vineyards, tasting rooms and grapes, but at the end of the day, nothing beats sharing a table with a bunch of friends and a few excellent bottles of wine.
We’ll get on the tractor to work the vines no matter how cold or dark, often in the still of the very early morning at 2:30 a.m., when most are just dreaming of wine. If wine needs to age in barrels a bit longer, or could use some blending wine, we’ll do whatever it takes to make it that much better.
So feel free to click around this Web site of ours to find out more about us, then stop on by for a visit to get to know the real people behind the vines and wines bearing my name.
Cheers!
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Huge Award for Our Fusion
Today 1.7 million people are seeing our 2008 Fusion in The Wall Street Journal®! Needless to say, we’re excited beyond belief. Our Fusion was chosen as “One of America’s Finest…
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Huge Award for Our Fusion
Posted on January 7, 2012 | 2 CommentsToday 1.7 million people are seeing our 2008 Fusion in The Wall Street Journal®! Needless to say, we’re excited beyond belief. Our Fusion was chosen as “One of America’s Finest... -
A Vertical Look at Vintages
Posted on October 26, 2011 | No CommentsAfter a dearth of blogging, I finally caught up with our winemaker, Markus Niggli for a comparison of the last several vintages of Borra wines. A COOLING TREND Following a... -
Killer pairings at The Gourmet Club
Posted on May 12, 2011 | No CommentsSeems we’ve been staying pretty busy behind-the-scenes over the last couple of months, working with local Chef Buddy O’Dell and his “Gourmet Club s.j.” on an exquisite five course “Spring... -
We like a little mustard with our vines
Posted on March 24, 2011 | 4 Comments Mustard, mustard everywhere! Well, maybe “everywhere” is a bit of an exaggeration. We plant a mixture of grasses and other plants in the dirt between every other row of... -
150 Acres of Pruning
Posted on February 25, 2011 | 2 CommentsIn what our winemaker, Markus Niggli, described as a “seven week ordeal,” over 150 acres of Borra Vineyards are now pruned. This massive yearly project involves a crew of six... -
Exciting Field Blends
Posted on January 26, 2011 | No CommentsWe are a big fan of the relatively new blog on the Lodi Winegrape Commission’s Web site written by longtime, multi-award-winning restaurant wine consultant, wine journalist, and former wine brand... -
Pumpkin Pickin’
Posted on October 19, 2010 | No CommentsLike their wine industry fathers and fathers’ fathers, Steve and Bev Borra’s grandkids Dominic, Trevor, Chantz and neighbor Chase spent the summer as pumpkin and gourd growers among the family... -
The Busiest Week
Posted on October 8, 2010 | 2 Comments“You will not see a busier week,” was how Borra Vineyards winemaker, Markus Niggli, described last week’s crush. Much of the focus was on picking old vine Zinfandel, Barbera and... -
Explaining a Vintage with an Espresso Shot
Posted on October 1, 2010 | No CommentsOur winemaker, Markus Niggli finds new uses for breakfast cups and lab equipment to explain Lodi’s greatest vintage yet… -
Preserving Flavors
Posted on September 27, 2010 | No CommentsWith early next week’s weather threatening to crack 100˚ for days in a row, nearly-ripe white Mokelumne Glen Vineyards Gewürztraminer was facing the very real possibility of raisining and damaging sunburn. Even though Borra’s winemaker, Markus Niggli, didn’t think flavors were optimal, he called in the crew to save the grapes from over-cooking and preserve delicate flavors by picking them last Thursday.