Winemaking: Making Red Wine Red
2022-10-10
New post on Wine Saves Lives! showing how we make red wine by extracting color and tannin from our fruit.
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Lineage: Life and Love and Six Generations in California Wine
by Steven Kent Mirassou
Hardcover – June 2021
Steven Kent Mirassou received his BA in American Literature from the George Washington University and his MA in Literature from NYU. He was born in the Salinas Valley and grew up in San Jose and Los Gatos before going east to college. Lineage: Life and Love and Six Generations in California Wine is his first book.
Mirassou started his wine career in sales but found his true passion after moving into the production side of the business in 1996. Steven has made the highest rated wines from the Livermore Valley, is a founder of the Mount Diablo Highlands Wine Quality Alliance, and the President of the Livermore Valley Wine Growers Association.
Steven has four adult children, April Coffey, Aidan Mirassou, Katherine Mirassou, and Sara Mirassou. He lives in Livermore, CA with his wife, Beth Murray Mirassou, and their two dogs
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Winemaking: At the Crushpad
2022-10-03
New post on Wine Saves Lives! details how we get fruit off the vine and into the fermenter. Getting Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa to the Livermore Valley requires a very early morning start, a bunch of coffee, and a U-Haul truck. But once the fruit is on the crushpad a
The Truth is in the Vineyards
2022-09-21
New post on Wine Saves Lives! Podcast Ep. 14 in which I talk about the wacky weather in wine country in the last week or so and how you can’t really know how bad (or good) things are unless you are spending time among the vines.
Making Wine is Morning Work
2022-09-18
I’m in the winery early on this rainy September morning – a rarity for California, and one of those small challenges we face as farmers and winemakers as it can set back harvest schedules as vineyards (hopefully) dry out, and fruit (hopefully!!) doesn’t plump up too much – doing punchdowns
Wine Glossary: Fermentation
2022-09-04
New post on Wine Saves Lives! discusses the magical conversion of water (juice) into wine!
Sampling Barbera for Sparkling
2022-08-30
Click on the link to see the latest video from Wine Saves Lives! about sampling for Barbera Rosé. I took a walk this beautiful morning through our Barbera block to gauge how far along the fruit was. We use Barbera, a high-acid grape native to Piemonte in northwestern Italy, to
The Truth About Wine
2022-08-29
A New post on Wine Saves Lives! about the essential whatness of Wine. Wine IS simple. But only if that’s what you want from it. Wine IS complicated. But only if you want it to be. The Fountain of Youth was filled with wine. Great wine ought to reflect the
Wine Glossary: Racking
2022-08-22
New post on Wine Saves Lives! showing what racking is and why it is important. The video attached shows how we rack juice (fermentation has not begun yet) off solid material just after the initial press. To rack is to decant or draw the juice (or wine, at later stages
Harvest 2022 Starts Auspiciously
2022-08-20
A new video on Wine Saves Lives! chronicling the start of Harvest 2022. The first day of 2022 Harvest saw the winemaking team at The Steven Kent Winery traveling to Lodi to pick up Albariño and overseeing the delivery of Sauvignon Blanc from the Lencioni Vineyard on the western edge of Livermore.
It’s a Palooza, A CabFrancaPalooza!
2022-08-16
Latest post on Wine Saves Lives! celebrating all things Cab Franc!