Field notes

The journal.

What we're pouring, picking, building, and arguing about. Updates as they happen — vintages, vineyard mornings, tasting-room nights, the cellar between.
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Person in a hat inspecting young vine rows with trellis wires and posts on a hillside

Newly installed trellis rows with young vines establishing; one worker walks the site under overcast Ashland skies.

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Young grapevine growing in a protective tube in a vineyard row, mountains in background

Young vine pushes past its cardboard tube in a newly planted block above the Rogue Valley floor.

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Woman pruning a grapevine in a vineyard row, mountains and valley in background

Vineyard work in early spring, tying canes on the hillside above Ashland with the Siskiyous still holding snow.

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Young vineyard rows with trellis wires on a hillside, mountains and valley fog in the background

Dormant vine rows on the Ashland hillside, fog pooling in the Rogue Valley below the Siskiyous.

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Vineyard rows on rolling hills with mountains and clouds in the distance at dusk

Vine rows at dusk, mountains holding the last light behind the canopy.

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Vineyard rows leading to hills at sunset, autumn-colored trees on slopes

Rogue Valley vines catch late-afternoon light against the Siskiyou foothills, southern Oregon wine country at its least sentimental.

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Rows of trellised grapevines under a blue sky, with forested mountains in the background.

Vine rows at peak canopy, Ashland hillside framed against the Siskiyous in late-afternoon light.

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Aerial view of vineyard rows leading to a hillside estate with dry golden hills behind.

Rogue Valley vine rows catch late-afternoon light below the Siskiyou foothills, Ashland AVA.

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Aerial view of vineyard rows on a hillside with distant mountains and blue sky with clouds.

Rogue Valley floor vines in early-season leaf-out, mountains stacked behind under a working sky.

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Clusters of unripe grapevine leaves with grapes ranging from green to deep purple, veraison stage.

Veraison in progress on red clusters at the Resistance estate block, skins still breaking color.

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Journal · Resistance Wine Co.