Locus Wine Consulting

06/12/2025

Hot off the press!! Starfield Vineyards & Winery

04/14/2025

We love Virtuoso Wine & Spirits internal marketing campaign, Sip Happens, in Texas. The wine trade tends to be visually oriented towards maps, places, and people. Illustrations and comics can also be informative!

04/06/2025

Thank you, Nick Franscioni, for a great tour of the family vineyards in the Santa Lucia Highlands on a slightly blustery spring afternoon! It was a pleasure to walk through Rosella’s and the three vineyard sites while talking about cover crops, soils, orientation, slope, and other details that lead to the quality of Roar wines. The Franscioni has farmed the property since 1904 and looks to be in good hands with the current generation!

04/03/2025

It was a pleasure to revisit the site and soil complexities of Beaujolais with Greg Van Wagner and Josh Orr’s presentation of "Beneath Beaujolais”. Connecting the dots between the sites and profiles was instructive. The complex quilt of elevation, soils, and weather was eye opening! More tasting is required….

03/31/2025

This is what handcrafting small lot vineyard block fermentations looks like at Caliza Winery /End of The Day winery in Tin City, Paso Robles. It is easy to do if you have the hands, and the right sized-tools!

03/26/2025

Great to talk taste and talk through the Spring bottlings for the West Coast wines of Paradise Springs with Proprietor Kirk Wiles, MG Stephen Goularte, and Consulting Winemaker Doug Margerum. Pink Ash Rosé continues to impress us!

09/20/2024

$40 Friday! September is Blood and Childhood Cancer Awareness month. What’s the connection? Nearly HALF of children diagnosed with cancer are blood cancers. 🩸

We are asking you to consider donating $40 today (there’s no upper limit of course 😊, but every $40 has an impact) as Team Carpe Diem in Los Angeles approaches their first fundraising milestone this season of $10,000. Locus Wine Consulting is an annual supporter of Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and champions their important work.

Last year Team Carpe Diem was able to garner enough support to raise $130,000. This was a meaningful amount because it funded two research portfolios - including support to targeted for vital childhood cancer initiatives through LLS's "Dare To Dream Project" - which is LLS's $175M commitment to childhood cancer. Their goal this year is to match the $130,000 - and be able to fund yet another research portfolio for childhood cancer.

Your donations help saves lives. DONATE HERE… it takes just 2 minutes to make an impact. https://pages.lls.org/ltn/calso/LAWALK24/mcaplan

09/17/2024

"I’m thinking you’ve never seen a nightime pick through a Rose Arbor! This view is my reward for starting our harvests at 4 AM. We created a pedestrian walkway through two blocks of Grenache and Mourvedre that allows guests to walk to the Lake Pavilion. We planted roses for shade. And in September and October we harvest right through the arbor, giving us this magical view." —Tom Sinton, Starfield Vineyards & Winery

A magical sight, indeed!

06/21/2024

It was a pleasure to spend the day with Alma Rosa Winery and Vineyards for their 5th annual Peace of Mind: 10,000 Steps in the Right Direction. Collectively, we were able to raise $210,000 to benefit One Mind and Santa Barbara’s Mental Wellness Center – the largest attendance and sum of funds raised since the walk’s inception!

First launched in 2020, Peace of Mind is the brainchild of Alma Rosa proprietors and General Manager: Bob & Barb Zorich and Debra Eagle as a way to support community services for mental health, as well as invest in research for causes, treatment, and potential cures. On May 24th, after listening to impassioned speeches regarding the ongoing mental health crisis, 275 of us gathered at the base of Alma Rosa’s estate to walk the 10,000 steps (~4.5 miles) walk through the hillside vineyards.

Over the last five years, the winery has raised over $955,000 for both organizations, and Bob Zorich serves as Chairman of the Hope and Healing Center & Institute in Houston and supports the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation in New York City. Reflecting on the day’s success, Debra said “as depression and anxiety continue to profoundly affect lives, we're honored to be part of a positive change.” I couldn’t agree more – thank you for the invite, Alma Rosa!

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One Mind was founded in 1995 as a means of “advancing a three-pronged program strategy of accelerating discoveries, improving services, and transforming culture.” The nonprofit has some of the brightest minds doing neuropsychiatry brain research, and hopes to create a world that supports those facing brain health challenges.

For 77 years, Santa Barbara’s Mental Wellness Center has been providing mental health support to local youths, families, and adults. They specialize in mental health education and operate a residential services program for those impacted by mental health, including the unhoused, to foster social connection and a supportive environment.

06/18/2024

Fascinating family vineyard wine from Lewis Seiler; sculptor, photographer, rancher, environmentalist, sailor, and restless creative soul. The limited first release of the estate Cabernet Sauvignon is delicious and impressive - the quality of the wines owes much to the handwork of Francisco Alfaro who has tended to the vines since they were planted 20 plus years ago. https://www.seilerestate.com

10/18/2023

It is more important than ever to support research of brain health and support those affected by mental illness or or disorders! There have been a number of extraordinary advances in our understanding of brain health and function recently. There is much more to learn about brain health to help some or all of us to lead healthier, happier and productive lives.
https://onemind.org

10/13/2023

A more just and equitable world can begin with, and is sustained by, clean water. Wine To Water acts both locally and globally. We’re pleased to support the extraordinary scope of work that WTW performs - especially in this era of climate change, challenges, and uncertainty.

Wine To Water is an international non-profit organization committed to supporting the life and dignity of all through the power of clean water.