 It's wine time on the housing life. Many of you have asked about how wine is made from the grape all the way to the bottle. I've got the answers for you. We're excited about telling you at all. Nathan underscore 17 underscore zero. What inspired the beginning of your amazing winemaking? Well, you have to understand, we've been growing grapes since I was about five years old. So we've been growing grapes for about 42 years, 43 years. So I grew up in a vineyard. The winemaking part came later. So there's really two different parts to this. There's the growing part of it, and then there's the winemaking process. I started liking wine in my mid-20s, and I've gradually liked it more and more as I've gotten older. So I'm a part of the wine process. Our whole family is in different ways, even Tamara. Tamara helps taste the wine and gives us her opinion and helps design wine like our fuel blend. In fact, Tamara helped design the fuel blend wine right here, which has three different varietals in it, cabs in and petite syrup. But for the actual winemaking process, I just liked it ever since I had a chance to get my hands on grapes. And then when I came home, as I got older, it became more fun to be out there and to see the crop go from the field to two years later, for example, for a red wine into the bottle. We have a great winemaker. That's the important thing. So I'm not a winemaker, but I work with our winemaker directly to design these wines and then put them in the bottle and sell them. Kimi Lam, one ass is winemaking like growing other crops where you have to rotate the soil, pH of the soil, grow different things in different areas. So yes and no. You do have to till the soil. You have to make sure that the grapes get enough water, depending on how old they are, how much you need to water them. But when it comes down to changing and growing different crops there, no. Once you plan a grapevine, that grapevine is there until you tear it out. So you don't change it every year. In fact, it takes three years for a grapevine, once it's planted, to actually have a crop. Two gen 10, two ass. What kind of grape varieties do we use? Well, we grow Cabernet and Zinfandel, which also then turns into pink wine, and also into our field blend. It's tough for a winery to grow every single variety of themselves, but we do make all of our wine. So you kind of do a little bit of both. We grow our own grapes, and at the same time, we buy other people's grapes to make it into other wine. So right now we have old wine Zinfandel. We have a Chardonnay. We have multiple Rosés. We have a Petit Cera. We got a number of Cabernets. We basically have 11 different wines right now, soon to be 13 different wines. As things keep going forward, we're going to have a sparkling wine for the first time. So the idea is to make a really good wine that's not crazy expensive. Something you're not going to go down to five at the corner store for $9, but also something that's not going to break the bank. Nenner16 asks, how do we name our wines? Well, we name our wines in a lot of fun ways. So for example, the easiest way, Adam and Tamara's field blend, is named after Adam and Tamara, because we decided on the blend we were going to do. A3H is named after my brother. So A3H stands for Eric, with an A, Alex, and Elena, with Hannah, his wife. So A3H, that's the name. Arch nemesis Rosé, named after my dad, because he says we always joke that Rosé was his nemesis, because we had to, he had to actually do an extra step to make the Rosé, which means take the skins off. So we had fun with that one. Sister wine, that one came up from just me sitting in Tamara and Lonnie's dressing room one day, and I was bored, and they were talking about being sisters. And so I came up with the idea of sister wine. The rest just have our name, and then we have Halsey Napa, and then we have Halsey Century Oak Winery. So Judy's Vineyard is named after my mom, because it's a vineyard of Cabernet. This Judy's Vineyard is the estate Cabernet. And the old vine Zippendell is Ainez's Vineyard. That's named after my grandma. MissSunny928 asks, what would you suggest as a lighter wine for beginners? An introduction to wine or tastings? I've really not a big fan of most wines that I've tried. Well, what draws you to wine are two things, the flavor and the sugar. I would recommend starting with a rosé, and try to find ones that are more dry, that'll help you take your next step, which would be into white or red wines. We have three different rosés. The first one is sister wine. This one has just a little bit of sugar in it. It's not as sweet as most of the rosés you might find in the store, because it takes a little more time to make rosé without sugar. I'll explain that in a second. Then we have the Halsey Sonoma Pinot Noma Rosé, which is very light, very delicate, and it's not sweet, but it's got fruit. And the last one is Arxnemesis, which is my favorite of the rosés. It's one day of skin contacts. Look how much darker that is. This is red wine without skin contact. This is red wine with skin contact. When you have a pink wine, it's actually a red wine. What makes red wine red are the skins. So pink wine is red wine without skins, without skin contact. A lot of sweet wine drinkers are people just getting into wine. They love this wine because it has a lot of fruit in it, but it's not sweet. It's actually dry. And you wouldn't know it sometimes when you drink it. Mrs. HPW asks, I'm a white wine person. How do you graduate to reds? Also, when will you ship to Oklahoma? Well, we have a new distributor in Oklahoma called Artisan Fine Wines. So if you're in Oklahoma, just go to your local store or restaurant and tell them that we're carried by Artisan Fine Wines out of Tulsa. They're our distributor. It's a female-owned distributor ship, so that's pretty cool. If you're a white wine drinker and you start going into red, again, you want to find something that's, I think, fruity. So I would recommend our Petite Cera or something like it. Petite Cera is jammy. It's ripe. If you smell it, it might even smell like raisins or dark plums. And I call it a mind trick because when you smell it, you think, oh, there's sugar in this, but when you drink it, it's dry. Maybe we can do a virtual wine tasting. That's something that might be interesting as well, where you could get the wine to your doorstep, but we can do a virtual wine tasting with you right here on the Halsey Life. Triple G14 says, they just visited us here. Beautiful spot in Napa Valley. I love that the people were great. The wine was great, and I will be back. Thank you. The idea when you come here is very simple. Be kind. That's it. One rule, be kind. We want everyone to come here and enjoy themselves. We don't care who you are, old, young, gay, straight, left, right, black, white, whatever. I mean, green, purple. Doesn't matter. You come here. You're going to be welcome. Everyone comes here to enjoy themselves and enjoy each other, and we see people from all walks of life become friends here. It's pretty cool to watch. So Dick Camille 9 asked, Adam, I like Chardonnays, but what's the difference between Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, and Pinot Grigio? Well, first of all, the similarities. All three of them are wines that are aged without skins. They're actually fermented without skins and they're aged without skins. And then they also go into stainless steel tanks. So when they're harvested from the field, they basically are put through a strainer. They go right into a stainless steel tank. That's where they're fermented. That's where they stay until their bottle. So the similarities with our three are that. Now, the differences. Chardonnay inherently has some butter in it as part of the fermentation process. Pinot Grigio, a lot of Pinot Grigios don't finish, meaning you don't have a taste a couple seconds later. Ours does. Ours is a great finish to it. It's very fruit-forward. I think it's the most delicate of the three. And the Sauvignon Blanc is just right down the middle Sauvignon Blanc. It's a nice, crisp, with some apple and citrus to it. I actually even say our Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc kind of favor each other. But all three are great wines, and they all have a little bit of differences to them. Simply me ask, why should wine be stored on its side? Well, there are two types of wine. The one with a screw top doesn't need to be stored on its side because it's a screw top wine, so it doesn't matter at all, but should give you a hint. If the wine does not have a screw top like this one, which is our steak Chardonnay, it needs to be stored on the side so the cork stays moist. Because if it was like this, the wine stops right below the cork, which means the cork will dry out, which means you have that crumbly cork sometime when you pull it. You don't want that. You want that cork to be nice and moist and keep it expanded in the bottle. That little bit of liquid will do that. So keep it on its side. It keeps the wine better, and it keeps the cork better, and it makes for a much better bottle of wine when you open it a year or two down the road. Octavia asks, Adam, what's your favorite wine versus what's Tamara's favorite wine, or do you guys have the same taste in wine? We actually have the same taste in wine a lot of ways. I mean, there's sometimes that Tamara's like, no, and sometimes where I'm like, oh, that's good. But for the most part, we actually like wine about the same. I mean, we've been together for a long time, so maybe that's part of it. But we enjoy all types of wine. We'll drink rosés. We'll drink whites. We'll drink reds. I will say we favor reds more. We drink more Cabernets, I would say, and Petite Syrahs and Blends, that kind of thing. Tamara does like champagne. I'm not a big champagne drinker, and she will drink sometimes whites or pinks more with her friends. I'll drink more reds with my buddies, but we kind of have the same taste in wine. And she has a better power. She definitely has a better power for me, which means she can taste all intricacies of the item. I either say it's good or bad. A wine pairing episode with Tamara and I could be fun. Would you guys like to see that or anything else involved with wine and Tamara and myself? Let us know in the comments down below. Mary Angel Carter asks, what's the house's absolute favorite wine for date nights? Cabernet, pretty much. I mean, a Napa Cab or a Lodi Cab or a California Cabernet is tough to beat, especially if it's made really well. Right now, because it's ours, well, we've been drinking our reserve a lot. This reserve Cabernet is just fabulous. Spent two years in the barrel, two years in French oak. So for a date night, we like to be like a nice, bold, flavorful red. Nonde Lungela, I'm saying that wrong, probably, but she asked advice for someone wanting to get into winemaking. Well, I would first thought I would do is, obviously, you like wine. Then I would make sure I'm going to go online. There's some free online classes and things you can find tons of stuff out there you can find about winemaking online. I would watch the videos, kind of just get that vibe to see if it's something you really want to do. And then maybe try to find a job with the wineries, you could. There's wineries in every state, I believe, now in the country. Even Alaska, I believe, has a winery. So you can find jobs at a winery, even if it's just part-time. Start to get that feel of, is it something you want to do? And then maybe look at going to school to do that or get hired as an apprentice. A lot of wineries are looking for people to get in and to learn the process and willing to start from the bottom up. Ms. Webster asks, do you think Aiden or Aweil will continue the legacy? I mean, I don't know. I mean, I'm not going to pressure them, whatever they want to do. Aiden's already said that he wants to play soccer and baseball. He wants to maybe own a car dealership, but ultimately he's going to work in a tasting room. He wants to run the tasting room for daddy. And he works here now. I mean, I grew up in a small business with my parents. I watched them start a small grocery store and we worked there from five years old on. Aiden likes to wipe the counters down and wash the glasses and greet the customers. Orion is still kind of young at five. She's still kind of, she loves coming here and visiting, but she hasn't really gotten it yet. Aiden gets it. He told me that today he can't wait until he's 21 so he can start trying to wine. Also, many of you want to know how to find our wine. So there's two ways to get our wine. It's distributed in your state or we send it to you. So to find out if it's distributed in your state, go to our website, Howsley and Napa Valley dot com, Howsley and Napa Valley dot com, or Century Oak Winery dot com, Century Oak Winery dot com. You'll be able to find out where we're distributed in which states. If we're not in your state, just let us know if you know a distributor or someone that wants to bring us in. We'd love to work with you. Otherwise, we can ship to anybody just about. And we have very affordable rates. In fact, we're paying for one third of all the shipping right now. I'd like to hear any more questions you have about wine and maybe some of the industries that you grew up in. I always like to hear what others grew up in and maybe their family businesses and how they got involved or if their children are going to get involved. So let us know all that in the comments down below and don't forget to subscribe to The Howsley Life.