Barreca Vineyards

Barreca Vineyards

From Vine to Wine since 1986

Archive for June 2022

2022 As a Blur

When I was much younger I thought about becoming a writer.  But I realized that if I had in mind to write about everything that I experienced it would be like a huge version of “Kiss and Tell”.  Not wanting to contaminate my life with ulterior motives, I backed off from writing hoping some day… (read more)

How Sweet It Is

How Sweet It Is The quest for evidence-based information is ongoing.  So are the efforts to dismiss it. As Yuval Noah Harari pointed out, science is based on the admission of ignorance.  With science, as soon as you think you know something new, other scientists are going to poke holes in your ideas and try… (read more)

Rooting

When I was a younger and less knowledgeable gardener I tried starting apple trees by planting seeds.  Johnny Apple Seed right?!  It didn’t go very well and I asked Larry Geno, who owned Bear Creek Nursery at the time about how to do that.  He laughed in my face and proceeded to tell me that… (read more)