10. There’s no bet­ter way to start out a great Vint­ners’ Fes­ti­val week­end (than with a trip to the Lom­poc Wine Ghetto!). 9. When else do you get to see men strut­ting their styl­ish pink shoes? 8. You are sure to be wowed by Wine Club mem­ber and Win­ery friend Theresa Anderson’s cup­cake cre­ations (which […]

Why Happy Canyon? It’s a place, it’s a wine, and it’s sat­is­fac­tion. Read the wine notes, drink the wine, and take advan­tage of free ship­ping through Feb­ru­ary 15th! While Pinot Noir makes up 80% of our pro­duc­tion these days, Sauvi­gnon Blanc has always been an impor­tant part of my port­fo­lio. In fact, my love for […]

Pinkie’s Party was a resound­ing suc­cess! Great food, fun music com­pli­ments of the House Red (Pink) Band, and wildly cre­ative pink cos­tumes which far exceeded my expec­ta­tions. A big con­grat­u­la­tions to the win­ners of the cos­tume com­pe­ti­tion: Joseph and Laura, who we dubbed the “Post it Pair” for Most Unique/Creative, Marten and Theresa “Cake Lady” […]

Vine­yard Update The New Year is upon us, which sig­nals the start of an excit­ing new wine vin­tage!  The rains have arrived and our vines appre­ci­ate the “flush­ing” of excess min­er­als that have accu­mu­lated in their root zone.  The win­ter frost makes an occa­sional appear­ance and blan­kets the vine­yard floor, and the vine­yard pro­file transitions […]

As a wine­grower and grape herder, I seem to think of time in sea­sons. There are the obvi­ous ones – bud break, verai­son, har­vest. Spring, Sum­mer, Autumn, Win­ter. The Hol­i­day Sea­son. And then there is……Pink Sea­son! And it’s just about that time of year! What else could be bet­ter at the end of the short […]

Here it is – that hol­i­day time of year! A time to gather with fam­ily and friends, feast on cel­e­bra­tory meals, find that spe­cial gift for that spe­cial per­son and do a lot of hus­tle and bus­tle. For me, it’s a time to recon­nect to the post-harvest world! By way of har­vest update, we have […]

It seems to me that we were just hav­ing “Pinkie’s Party” – our pre-Valentines Day launch event for Pink Fid­dle.  And now here we are, get­ting ready to har­vest and make our 2006 vin­tage wines!  Time sure flies when you’re hav­ing fun, and that’s essen­tial to work­ing at Fid­dle­head – it’s almost required!  That’s part […]

The 2005 Har­vest In a word, har­vest this year was boun­ti­ful!  The abun­dant rain­fall in the early part of 2005, fol­lowed by almost per­fect con­di­tions dur­ing the rest of the grow­ing sea­son resulted in super-happy vines at Fid­dlestix and through­out Santa Bar­bara County.  The result was a higher crop yield cou­pled with an amaz­ing level […]

Lit­tle Fid­dles For quite a num­ber of years now, we’ve been bot­tling some of our wines in half-bottles, also known as “splits”. And they’re not just for restau­rants any­more! Our “Lit­tle Fid­dles” are now avail­able to you directly and are just pic­ture per­fect for a num­ber of occa­sions. In fact, we’ve come up with 39 […]