Join us at El Corcho Rosa to celebrate our upcoming harvest, the release of a new wine, and badass body art! Visit in comfort and strut your stuff in our shaded, open-air tasting garden surrounded by our cooling misting system.
Dear Friends, we are proud and excited to announce the evolution of our brand of wines. I started Valley Girl Wines back in 2012 with a burlesque style logo which we affectionately referred to as Sally Bowles, a cabaret performer Read more…
My wine consultant/oenologist, Sergio and I do not always see eye-to-eye. He’s amazing, don’t get me wrong. He’s a young, dynamic winemaker from Mendoza, Argentina and I’m fortunate to have him on my team. He’s a scientist and I’m an Read more…
Winemaker hands …. Michael and I selling Valley Girl Wine’s wares at a Día de Los Muertos event in Viñas de La Erre. Saludos! So lucky to have my beautiful daughter and Michael here Great Grapes Read more…
Here’s the beginning of a blog I began to write (rather optimistically) in September at the peak of this year’s winemaking mania: “My house is filthy. My eyes are bleary. My back is achy and my hands are black. Read more…
Wines in the barrel are uncannily similar to women the way they behave. One day a wine will whisper lovely suggestions under her breath. Another day she will seem brusque and irritable. Or silently withdrawn and simply won’t speak Read more…
People occasionally joke with me and ask, “How is it that you don’t drink all of your wine? How can you keep your hands off it? I couldn’t sit on that much inventory.” We have a chuckle over that Read more…
It’s been quite awhile since I’ve written about life in my wine-drenched world. The 2013 harvest and crush was stressful, exhilarating, satisfying and altogether exhausting but sweetened by the help of two amazing friends, Diana and Chente. Post-harvest had a Read more…
Diana & Sitara’s Italian Movie, with Special Guest: Chente! When folks follow my winemaking photo albums on Facebook they inevitably comment that it looks like “so much fun.” Truly there are many moments of levity. For some reason, winemaking lends Read more…
It’s that time of year again and winemakers all over the valley are getting ramped up for winemaking mania. Harvest has begun!
Just look at these gorgeous grapes!