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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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The Most Contemporary Collaboration
You can’t believe how much I enjoy pulling up behind a winery crush pad and being greeted with, “Here, try this.”
Borra's Blog
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The Most Contemporary Collaboration
Posted on April 19, 2013 | No CommentsYou can’t believe how much I enjoy pulling up behind a winery crush pad and being greeted with, “Here, try this.” -
The Start of Our New Heritage
Posted on October 4, 2012 | No CommentsThere was a time when local winemakers didn’t really care what grapes they were growing as long as their wine tasted good. They’d have maybe Zinfandel, Carignane and Petite Sirah... -
Zin Pick
Posted on September 28, 2012 | No CommentsZIN AT THE CRACK OF DAWN I pulled through the north gatepost at Borra’s Gill Creek Ranch Wednesday morning just before dawn, knowing the picking crew was already building up... -
Intuition: Behind the Label
Posted on September 3, 2012 | 2 CommentsAs if creating a new dry blend of little-known white wines wasn’t enough of a challenge, our winemaker, Markus Niggli, had to come up with a name for our new... -
Rules. Who needs ‘em?
Posted on July 13, 2012 | No CommentsSTEVE THE MAVERICK Back in the ‘70s, Lodi was known only for big co-op wineries, producing sweetish jug wine. Then along came Steve Borra. Steve wasn’t interested in following the... -
Borra Vineyards is Winery of the Year!
Posted on May 18, 2012 | No Comments2012 couldn’t be going much better for us! First, we celebrated our 2008 Red Fusion being chosen as a Wall Street Journal winner. Next, we made it through April without... -
2012 so far: Which is worse, drought or frost?
Posted on March 14, 2012 | 2 CommentsWe’re getting rained on right now, which is a good thing. It seems like the last time we had this much rain was back in October when we didn’t really... -
The Pruner Pro
Posted on February 20, 2012 | No CommentsThis being pruning time in wine country, I asked the master himself, Steve Borra, if he wouldn’t mind showing me a thing or two. Not long after sun-up on a... -
Huge Award for Our Fusion
Posted on January 7, 2012 | 3 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...