Hello Wine-lovers! I’m new to the Just Grapes team, and am happy to be associated with such a fine-looking group of oenophiles! My name is Sam, and I hope we’ve spoken at the shop already, and if not, look forward to. I thought I’d recount you with a bit of my background, and how I [...]

by Maggie Bernat Smith We love wine because it tells us a story. A tale of where it was grown, different varietal expressions, what the winemaker did to it when it was picked, and how the weather was that year. Wine is a delicious voice of all these things. It’s what makes us listen to [...]

By Jason Brooks It’s Friday morning around 10:30am and we finally pull up the long windy drive to the Staglin Family Vineyard. As you can see the fog was still lingering and the rain was misting down. Bud break has occurred: The entrance to the winery opens up into a long corridor lined with French [...]