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Vintage Report 2022 from Prima Materia
Prima Materia’s 2022 Vintage Report Remember the old days when people said that California didn’t really have vintages? While some things...


Vintage 2021 - The Lake County Report
As the vines started growing, it was clear that we never really had winter rains. When I was pruning vines in April, the wood was bone dry w


Sangiovese: A Couple of Attempts
Version 2.0 of the original, which is below. When asked to jot a few words down that define Prima Materia’s philosophy regarding...


2020 (Sort of) Vintage Report - Lake County
What. A. Year. The wine world is a very diverse (though oddly compact) web, and grasping the totality of it, even just within California,...
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