Winemaker Amy Aiken has done it again, this time with a Russian River Pinot Noir.  Recently bottled and to be released in the coming months.  Three cool labels, each a painting of a thief stealing away with the wine.

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Yesterday I shot bottling of Amy Aiken’s Meander’s Conspire wines; it was a great shoot and reminded me of my newspaper days with shooting happenings and people working. One photo to share, just the back of a bottle as I’m not sure the wine has been announced yet. Amy is cool, as you can see from the back of the bottle, and her wines highly rated.
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Winter is going well here in Napa Valley, beautiful rain creating wonderful color in the vineyards. This photo, taken late yesterday, was from Artesa Winery in Carneros. Colorful lines of vines, mustard and cover crop.
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Well, last week’s email issues are finally resolved and incoming email is now fixed. It was very frustrating and time consuming, to say the least, to not receive email for more than two days. If you happened to email last week and did not receive a reply please accept my apologizes and resend any correspondence. This week it’s back to a more normal schedule and again shooting the Valley.