Closeup of wine vineyard in Spring showing small berries

What’s Happening in the Vineyard – Spring

Get ready for your vineyard crash-course in spring-time grape-growing. Cameron Hughes’s Zeke Neeley takes us from bud-break to flowering. By CHW Team A graduate of UC Davis with a degree in biochemistry, Neeley first worked in cancer research for a biotech firm in South San Francisco. Every vacation,…

Sunset in winter over the vineyards of Barolo

What’s Happening in the Vineyard – Winter

Get ready for your crash-course in winter-time grape-growing. Cameron Hughes’ Zeke Neeley talks through winter dormancy, springtime threats to young vines, and offers predictions on the winter growing season ahead. By CH Wine Team Zeke Neeley, the senior winemaker at Kunde Family, one of the shining gems in…

Map of North Carolina overlaid on top of a vineyard picture with "NC" written

North Carolina Wine Month

Sadly shadowed and run alongside California Wine Month is a month dedicated to the wines of North Carolina. North Carolina has hundreds of years of grape growing history, and in the mid-19th century, boasted 25 wineries and dominated the national market in the US until post-civil war times…