I had a crazy idea — I would like to con­nect with you guys more often and in a more acces­si­ble way. So every once in a while I am going to hang out at a restau­rant and open a bot­tle of Fid­dle­head and share sto­ries of the day! I am start­ing the New Year with […]

  My job is crazy…but good crazy!

Fid­dle­head wines have found act­ing fame once again! Get out of the sum­mer heat and treat your­self to the movies — we sug­gest “The Kids Are All Right”. And don’t be late because it doesn’t take long for Fid­dle­head to make its appear­ance! But some­thing is not quite right… Astute wine drinkers take note: somehow […]

A Trib­ute to My Father — by Kathy Joseph, Con­duc­tor of Chaos My dad encour­aged me to explore, to expe­ri­ence the world, to be good to other peo­ple, to be tol­er­ant of dif­fer­ences, to respect oth­ers, to chal­lenge myself, to have con­fi­dence and to be hum­ble. He taught me to stand up straight, not to […]

How time flies when you’re hav­ing fun! We made it through 2008 and I could not have had the same suc­cess with­out the sup­port of my staff. Now that the vine­yard begins its new cycle, I find it appro­pri­ate to share the con­tri­bu­tions of my vine­yard fore­man, Rafael. Rafa joined Fid­dlestix in 1996 when I […]

What a glo­ri­ous vin­tage it’s been! Once again it’s a vin­tage like no other, and that is why I love this crazy wine busi­ness. This year the weather was par­tic­u­larly chal­leng­ing, and there were sev­eral forces of nature that impacted all Santa Bar­bara County vine­yards. The drought was a big fac­tor; our sweet lit­tle vines […]