A Look Back at Vintage 2012

An opinion commonly held by wine writers is that vintage doesn’t matter in California. This may be…

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Harvest 2015 – The Cycle Continues

Occasio’s harvest season began in the early morning hours of August 18, the earliest in our six…

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Harvesting Spring, in the Fall – The Making of Occasio Rosé

Soon we will be harvesting Pinot Noir for what will become our sixth vintage of Rosé.  This early…

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Saving Elephants – One Dinner at a Time

Each year we allocate a sizeable share of our resources to charity. As a family owned winery,…

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El Nino Promises Exciting Weather – 2015 Harvest

Predicting the weather is a tricky, business. Though long-range weather forecasting is risky, it plays an integral…

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Vintage 2015 – A Year of Unusual Weather Promises Concentrated Wines

This is the first year of a new program at Occasio Winery, where we begin intense management of…

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The Many Faces of Zinfandel

Zinfandel has had many incarnations: first as a substitute for French claret in the 1870s, and then…

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Minerality in Wine

The latest research into minerality in wine, and what we might do to capture it….

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A Proper Barrel Tasting Weekend

This Saturday and Sunday the Livermore Valley Winegrowers’ Association is holding its annual barrel tasting weekend fundraiser….

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Key New Positions Announced

This January we gave our members the opportunity to taste every vintage of Cabernet Sauvignon since our…

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