Sunlight on dried moss on ancient vine Zinfandel during a Lodi summer morning.
Summer of 2023 may very well go down as your most memorable. If you live your life to its fullest, like a cup of the world’s greatest wine, of course, you will never forget it. Memories, as it’s said, are made of this.
Like catchy songs, touching poems, and wine country photos that just scream… summer! Our rendering…
Dr. Stephanie Bolton, Lodi’s director of grower education and sustainability, tasting ancient vine Zinfandel on a hot July afternoon under the shade of a weeping willow.
Strawberries, cherries, and an angel’s kiss in spring
My summer wine is really made from all these things
—Lee Hazlewood
Summer sunset in Acquiesce Winery estate.
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate
—William Shakespeare
Ripening Kerner in morning light peering through the vines in Lodi’s Mokelumne Glen Vineyards.
In the summertime, when the weather is high
You can stretch right up and touch the sky
—Ray Dorset
Summer sunset dinner under a blue oak in Bokisch’s Terra Alta Vineyard, Clements Hills-Lodi appellation.
Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer
Those days of soda and pretzels and beer
Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer
You’ll wish that summer could always be here
—Charles, Tobias, Hans Bradtke and Hans Carsle
First glimpse of July veraison—annual changing of colors in black-skinned grapes—among Lodi’s old vines.
