Harvest 2015 – A Year of Shortages, Passings, and New Beginnings
Friday, October 2, marked the end of the 2015 harvest at Occasio Winery. A harvest season that…
A Look Back at Vintage 2012
An opinion commonly held by wine writers is that vintage doesn’t matter in California. This may be…
Harvest 2015 – The Cycle Continues
Occasio’s harvest season began in the early morning hours of August 18, the earliest in our six…
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…
Saving Elephants – One Dinner at a Time
Each year we allocate a sizeable share of our resources to charity. As a family owned winery,…
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…
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…
The Many Faces of Zinfandel
Zinfandel has had many incarnations: first as a substitute for French claret in the 1870s, and then…
Minerality in Wine
The latest research into minerality in wine, and what we might do to capture it….
A Proper Barrel Tasting Weekend
This Saturday and Sunday the Livermore Valley Winegrowers’ Association is holding its annual barrel tasting weekend fundraiser….
