Windchaser Wine Co

09/12/2026

Samples of all the current fermentations in the w**ery with the last two picks of the year coming next week. Everything is in good shape, moving along nicely. Cheers from here. 🤙

09/03/2026

One, Two, Three Golds in The Best of The East Bay!
Best w**e club, best tasting room and best w**ery. Feeling pretty stoked about this. Thank you to all my friends, customers and supporters who voted for Windchaser. Mucho aloha 🤙

09/02/2026

Harvest update: First time making Touriga for Barebottle Brewing Company. Also picked Barbera today, both from Amador County.

09/02/2026

Rainy day w**emaking. Today I’m playing with some Redwood Valley Barbera.🤙

08/26/2026

08/24/2026

Today’s activities include Pinot Gris and Gruner Veltliner. 🤙

08/18/2026

The Third Friday House Band Jam starts this weekend. Up Jumped The Devil hits the Windchaser stage at 5pm. Blues and rockabilly with special guests and jammers till 8pm.

08/14/2026

Harvest 2026 is here!

Harvest 2026 is officially underway here at Windchaser. The first grapes of the year are in the w**ery, and the place has made its annual transformation into production mode. The seasonal green waste dumpster is currently full of pomace and dripping pinot noir juice into the gutter. The driveway is littered with dozens and dozens of squashed grapes that the forklift wheels have pulverized into the blacktop. Half ton macro bins have already started accumulating in my parking lot. Bins that have been power washed and are waiting to be returned to their home vineyards where they will be reloaded with grapes and trucked to another w**ery. There they’ll be emptied, power washed and trucked away again. The life of a macro bin!

Harvest is early this year. The Pinot Noir I brought in on Tuesday for sparkling was picked three weeks later last year. At this stage harvest could be wrapped up by the end of September. We’ll see. This is my 22nd year of making w**e, the past eleven under the Windchaser label. While the challenges of running a small w**e business have not lifted over the years, the anxious feeling of the coming harvest has. I feel prepared for whatever Mother Nature, Murphys law, Dionysus, Gremlins or Karma have in store for me. I’m not tempting any of them mind you, I’m just saying I’m ready. I am excited to see what this year’s harvest provides me with, both in quality of grapes and in gained experience. Here we go!

Upcoming Events
In addition to all the fun with grapes coming up the next few weeks, I’ve also got a bunch of weekend activities on the books. Blues, Jazz, Jams. Check out the schedule here. (https://www.windchaserw**e.com/tasting_events.html)

W**e Club Reminder
If you enjoy Windchaser w**e, whether you are Bay Area local or not, please consider joining the Windchaser W**e Club. It’s a really good deal and a really good way to support this little urban w**ery.
If you are already a W**e Club member, please remember that you get 20% off all the w**e you buy all year. So, if you drink w**e on any kind of regular basis, it’s just being financially responsible to take advantage of your discount and drink Windchaser.
I have an entire room full of current and previous vintages of all your favorites—w**es you’ve enjoyed in the past, now aged, matured, and waiting for you to experience them once again. Join the club, restock your favorites, or come find something new to open soon. Email dave@windchaserw**e.com for more information.

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07/23/2026

Saturday July 25th, 3-6
Rocky Island Oyster Co.

06/08/2026

Sunday Jazz with The Art Springs Quartet 4-6pm #@
June 14th.