by NovaCadamatre | Oct 7, 2018 | Finger Lakes Life, Vintage Notes, Viticulture, Winemaking
This has been an insane year. I haven’t had much time to post at all which I’m incredibly disappointed by. However, the 2018 harvest is shaping up to be a very interesting one. Over the summer, my family and I relocated back to Napa, California but we...
by NovaCadamatre | Aug 24, 2017 | Finger Lakes Life, Vintage Notes, Viticulture, Winemaking
Finally, it has dried out. I can walk in the vineyards and my back yard without worrying about sinking into a puddle. Since my last update we have still had several more storms however it has not been everyday and we have at last seen a return to sun which gave us a...
by NovaCadamatre | Jul 26, 2017 | Finger Lakes Life, Vintage Notes
Seriously, we are good. Last year was a drought year for the Finger Lakes but this year has been one of the wettest on record. Upstate NY had the wettest March and April ever on record according to National Weather data. Just in the past 30 days over 10 inches have...
by NovaCadamatre | Feb 21, 2016 | Finger Lakes Life
How else do you describe compost to a three year old when I was trying to explain the process to him. He laughed at me and said “That’s silly!” Yes, I was thinking it was pretty silly when I found myself on a back country road during an...
by NovaCadamatre | Feb 8, 2016 | Elegant and Floral, Finger Lakes Life, Stone and Chalk, Travel, Zesty and Fruity
One of the things Brian and I miss most about living in Napa is the wide variety of amazing food available there. It was always a struggle to decide, when we were going to go out, where we should go because there were so many great choices, many of...
by NovaCadamatre | Nov 9, 2015 | Finger Lakes Life
The Road Not Taken – Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair And having...
