We’ve done a lot of work in our little Tempranillo vineyard this year. In addition to radically changing our pruning system, we brought in a team to plow the soil in preparation for the growing season. This being rural Chile, the team involved a horse. I’m not sure how you would even do this in [...]

We spent last Friday evening and all day Saturday pouring at the eleventh annual Cata y Vino wine tasting. We had a great time meeting the people who stopped by to try our wine, and of course it’s always fun to hang out with the MOVI group. Our room had a live jazz band for [...]

The Eleventh Annual Cata y Vino wine tasting will be held this Friday and Saturday at the W Hotel in Santiago. Flaherty will be participating again this year as part of the MOVI group (Movimiento de Vinateros Independientes de Chile), an organization of small family wineries in Chile. Like last year, all the group members will be [...]

This season, we made a radical change in the pruning system we use on our Tempranillo vineyard—namely, we’ve switched the vineyard over from a double-cordon trellis to head pruning. For some time now, we’ve been trying to address the uneveness in vine development across the vineyard, and this winter required a hard pruning to promote [...]

We recently undertook what was for us a rather large construction project: we refinished the winery floor and extended the crush pad out considerably by paving the driveway and parking area. Workmen were here for two weeks, first laying the baldosa (large cement tiles that can withstand production) and then pouring cement. The baldosa still [...]

We recently finished the first barrel rack for the 2010 vintage, and we have quite the collage of different wines in barrel this year. We received fruit exclusively from the Aconcagua Valley, with four distinctive lots each of Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon from the Manzur Encón vineyard next to the Putaendo River, Syrah from the [...]

I have been absolutely overwhelmed with translation and editing work lately (which explains the lack of posts here). That’s a good thing, but it does make the rest of life a challenge. It’s the typical working mom’s dilemma: how to run a household while maintaining a full-time job without losing one’s sanity. There isn’t time [...]