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Harvest Club Wines: Happy New Year Mission Wine Fans! This month we travel the four cardinal directions! Starting in South Africa we visit husband and wife Mick and Jeanine Craven of Craven Wines in beautiful Stellenbosch! . Then we head North to Naoussa, Greece, and meet Apostolos Thymiopoulos, the man behind Thymiopoulos Vineyards. Next, we head West to the mountains...

Harvest Club - December 2021 It's that time of year again!! And its also that time for more new and interesting wines from some of the best natural and holistic wine makers in the world! This month we meet a unique winemaker from Bairrada, Portugal, Maria Pato of João Pato aka Duckman. She makes such fun, fresh, and fabulously funky...

Harvest Club - November 2021 November’s Harvest Club is all about the cool-climate coastal vineyards of California, and the relatively unknown yet magnificent winegrowing regions of the Czech Republic! Bur first, let’s hit the beach! Tyler and Rachel Eck’s Dunites Wine Co. love to harvest from incredible sights along the central coast. Namely the Spanish Springs and Bassi Vineyards, both...

Harvest Club - October 2021 Happy Harvest everyone! This is the time of year when all those hardworking vineyard workers, cellar hands, cellar masters, winemakers, vineyard managers, and interns put it into overdrive and overtime to bring in all that glorious fruit to be processed, cold-soaked, pressed, and into tank for the magnificent and magical transition from being grape juice...

Harvest Club - September 2021 This month starts us on a new wine drinking journey. We shall continue to explore the majestic wine making regions of California, but we will expand our scope to regions beyond our stately borders. From across the U.S. to around the world, brilliant viticulturalists and wine makers are truly making a lasting impression on the...

Harvest Club - August 2021 August marks the third and final stop in our summer Harvest Club *Destinations* series, venturing (with wine!) into some of California's off-the-beaten path wine destinations...and beyond. From the wild and woolly Sierra Foothills in June to sun-kissed Baja, Mexico, with a stop in San Diego on the way in July, we hope you've enjoyed the...

Get your passport ready... July continues our summer Harvest Club *Destinations* series, venturing into some of California's off-the-beaten path wine destinations...and beyond. Up next: San Diego County & Baja, Mexico! Located on opposite sides of the US-Mexico border, San Diego County and the Guadalupe Valley of Baja share similar desert-meets-coast rugged topography, and warm, Mediterranean climate moderated by cool ocean...