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E84 Annual Harvest Update 2025 pt 2 | Joe Wagner

53 minutes Posted Dec 12, 2025 at 7:00 pm.

Wine flavor profiling and utilizing the flaws out of the fermenters

New age winemaking utilizing old world tactics (sulphur wicking)

Vineyard stories (...with great power comes great responsibility)

Hard Harvests (2011 walk down memory lane)

It's all in the timing (growing different wine varietals)

Hanging tough (grape ripeness)

Waiting for a solid wine series (like The Bear)

Work ethic (love for winemaking)

Lobster story (celebrating another great harvest and family)

Wine industry needs unity and love right now...not trolling and hating

Humor and jokes within the community and your fellow winemakers

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🎙️ Go With Your Palate: Harvest Update 2025 | Inside the Crush With JLO & Nick Reinell It’s that time of year, folks—Harvest Update 2025—and we brought in the heavy hitters. This week, Joe sits down with Copper Cane’s own winemaking rockstars: John “JLO” Lopez, Director of Winemaking, and Nick Reinell, Winemaker, resident crusher of grapes and egos (mostly Fat Mario’s). If you’re a cork dork, buckle up. We dig into everything from this year’s Napa Valley harvest conditions to the never-en...

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