Mike Sangiacomo
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard Aug 2024
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Farm4Profit Podcast · F4F - AJ Wiechmann Trucker and Pilot - after we try some wine! · 22 Aug 2024
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david so tanner what i really gotta know is the juice worth the squeeze and tanner all right it's about time to wrap this baby up they're my favorite like farm for fun it's time to put aside the stress of the work boots sit down grab your favorite adult beverage and listen to the boys from farm for profit yay it says applause
We're doing great. 2024 season is upon us. Harvest is coming probably in the next month or so. We're almost to the fourth quarter. We're big sports guys around, so we like to attribute everything into quarters and halves. We're getting close to the fourth quarter. Harvest is our fourth quarter. It's turned out to be, so far, a great vintage.
We've still got a little ways to go before the goal line. Things are looking good.
No, we had a little bit of a heat spike. Other than that, survived it well because it was early on in the season. And things look good at this point, like my brother said. The important weather's really kind of at the very end, so we'll see what happens. But as of right now, we're looking good. Yeah, we've had beautiful California sunshine.
Mother Nature so far has blessed us. So we need some more California sunshine to get us to November. So that's all we ask for.
We're in Sonoma Valley, yeah. We farm across multiple areas of Sonoma County. Sonoma County is made up of different AVAs in American Viticulture areas. So there's 20 AVAs in Sonoma County, and we farm in Sonoma Coast, Carnera, Sonoma Valley, and Petaluma Gap. So we're four of the farm in different areas of Sonoma County.
Others, yeah, we're a multi-generational family. Just like many of the farming operations, the grape growing operation, wine operations in Sonoma County, I think over 70% of our vineyards out here and operations are multi-generational family businesses. So very down, roots run deep around here in terms of, in more ways than one, through the vines and through our businesses out here.
As of now, yes, no. Yeah, no, we're just growing wine grapes right now. In the past, our family had to own pears, apples, fruits, and cherries, but over the decades and stuff, this is about what's left that is profitable. So farming is about profit. This is about profitability, and unfortunately, we're left here in Sonoma County with just one crop left. There are some apples.
There are some operations that are still farming apples, but the majority of it's all wine grapes right now, just go to the market and we make amazing wine as we'll be tasting here soon. So we'd love to be able to share with the country and the world.
Yeah, every year. It's a new chapter. It's a new journey. That's amazing in my wine life. It's the best alcoholic product to drink. I'm not biased at all. Don't worry. I'm not biased. But every vintage is different. It's not like there's no recipe wine. There's no recipe. It's like other beverages. They all taste the same. Some, they're different. Some are different for their own reasons.
If it's weather, if it's
late growing seasons early growing seasons i mean it's mother mother nature's our boss i know you're a big farming community you understand you farm where mother mother nature is um you know calls the shot so that has a huge influence on each vintage and um you know they're all they're all different um i i'll say you know every vintage is is always my friends are how can you say every vintage is the best because it is all right so what do we have here what'd you guys send our way
So this is our 2022 Sonoma Coast Chardonnay. So it's from our state family brand. So we sell growers, like a lot of growers in Sonoma County. We sell to multiple wineries. We actually farm 1,600 acres in Sonoma County across 14 different individual vineyards. And we sell to over 90 wineries, which is a common theme with a lot of growers. They start and say, hey, let's start making our own estate.
And just so they can, you know, consumers can understand our interpretation of our grapes through our wine. And we have other winemakers do their own iterations. And winemaking is art. And we like to say grape growing is art as well. So grape growers play just as big a role in the final product. And we like to educate consumers that, guess what? Guess where wine starts? It starts in the vineyard.
So this is our 2022 Sonoma Coast Chardonnay.
Absolutely. Yeah, you move it around, get a little of the aromas going, a little sniff, what kind of flavors. And then the next part is, or the aromas, I should say, the next part is tasting it for the flavor and texture. So, yeah, you're breaking, you're soaring up, breaking up all the enzymes. And it just basically... It's not.
It's basically when you put the romaine, just tell me what you smell. It's like it's the first thing you smell.
Pear. There you go. Bingo. Do you have the tasty notes in front of you? No. No.
I don't know what that is. So it's a test. Yeah. So pair a lot of fruit notes. So Sonoma County gets a lot of sunshine. We're in California, but we're in the cooler parts of the cooler regions. We're on the marine coastal region, we call it. So we're really close to the Pacific Ocean. We border it. It's California. A lot of our vineyards are, you know, just miles away.
So we get a lot of that ocean influence, marine influence in the day. So it allows the grapes to get ripe. Then at night, It cools down and allows the vineyards, the grapes to maintain acidity. So you get brightness and great fruit flavors. And then you get acidity that really adds to the textural element to the wine.
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