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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.
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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About Author: Jon Bjork
Posts by Jon Bjork
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![We 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 […]](https://borravineyards.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/MerlotHR-2010100108-115x115.jpg "Exciting Field Blends")
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 […] -
![Like 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 […]](https://borravineyards.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Pumpkins-10-18-10-029-115x115.jpg "Pumpkin Pickin’")
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 […] -
![“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 […]](https://borravineyards.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/MerlotHR-2010100105-115x115.jpg "The Busiest Week")
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. -
![Borra’s Manuel and Federico led a crew of about a dozen strong backs up at the crack of dawn to pick Chardonnay from Borra’s Gill Creek Ranch, north of Lockeford, […]](https://borravineyards.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Chard-10091701-115x115.jpg "First Fruit for Borra")
First Fruit for Borra
Posted on September 21, 2010 | No CommentsBorra’s Manuel and Federico led a crew of about a dozen strong backs up at the crack of dawn to pick Chardonnay from Borra’s Gill Creek Ranch, north of Lockeford, […] -
![Yesterday, starting at 8:00 a.m. sharp, the Borra Home Ranch Merlot and Barbera vineyards on Armstrong Road were inspected for the European Grapevine Moth by a team from the joint […]](https://borravineyards.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/MothInspection-10091608-115x115.jpg "Euro Moth Inspection")
Euro Moth Inspection
Posted on September 18, 2010 | No CommentsYesterday, starting at 8:00 a.m. sharp, the Borra Home Ranch Merlot and Barbera vineyards on Armstrong Road were inspected for the European Grapevine Moth by a team from the joint […] -
![Last Friday, winemaker, Markus Niggli, and I (Jon Bjork, the Lodi Wine Guy embedded at Borra during crush), hit the field to check on some Gewürztraminer at Mokelumne Glen Vineyards. […]](https://borravineyards.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Gewurtz-2010091007-115x115.jpg "Sampling Gewürz")
Sampling Gewürz
Posted on September 16, 2010 | No CommentsLast Friday, winemaker, Markus Niggli, and I (Jon Bjork, the Lodi Wine Guy embedded at Borra during crush), hit the field to check on some Gewürztraminer at Mokelumne Glen Vineyards. […]