Stay Gold, Pony Boy
I’m not an animal lover. I’m not an animal hater either. I’m more of an animal tolerator. Jules loves animals. And I love Jules. Which is the main reason I...
Mother Earth wants us gone – like now
There is a new age theory from the 1970s called the Gaia Principle. The basic idea is that the earth is a living organism that will adapt as it needs...
My Cousin Lorenzo
Spoke to my cousin Lorenzo yesterday. He lives in a little seashore town on the Adriatic called Senigallia. It has been a resort town since Roman times and still is...
Rosalita Goes To The Stone Pony
When all else fails in naming a new wine, the Auburn Road Stupid Name Department, of which I am Chair, seems to fall back on all things musical. The very...
“Everything Matters.” What does that even mean?
“Everything Matters.” This has been our motto here at Auburn Road almost from day one. It started innocently enough. Our very first t-shirt was created to celebrate the release of...
The Argument Against Yoga – Without My Impurities, I Would Cease to Exist
Jules and I do yoga together almost every day. It’s funny, for two people who live and work together, we see remarkably little of each other. And that, of course,...
Dancing Naked in the Newly Planted Vineyard
When you become a farmer and begin working the land, something primal does begin to come out in you. Especially when those primal aspects have spent the majority of your...
The Sound of Footsteps in the Dark Night
People do ask us a lot about what it was like to start a winery without knowing how to farm or make a drinkable bottle of wine. That is, of...
Wonder What the Boys Will Tell their Therapists
We are heading off this weekend to go visit our older son, Luca, at college. We are really excited. It has been over two months since he left. He’s a...