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90 Points in W&S for Syrah
2010 Matchbook Syrah receives 90 Points and a BEST BUY in the August 2013 issue of Wines & Spirits magazine: 90 Matchbook, 2010 Dunnigan Hills Syrah (Best Buy) $16. Tight and peppery when first opened, this has a tobacco leaf savor to its austerity (there’s 10 percent cabernet in the blend). The wine is light, fine in its flavors, [...]
Notes on Potatoes
On the Recipes page of our web site, there is a recipe for Cream of Greens soup – you could use the potatoes and collards from your box to make this soup!
Here’s a note about potatoes that we got recently:
“Like the year of many turnips, I’ve been grateful for the plethora of potatoes this year. They were oft overlooked in my box, easy to bru [...]
FarmShares Week of June 17, 2013
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Black Mission Figs — Spreadwing Farm • Carrots, Curly Kale & Oregano — Riverdog Farm • Plus everything in the Peck
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Walla Walla Spring Onions — Fiddler’s Green Farm • Basil & Green Beans — Full Belly Farm • Lapin Cherries* & Royal Blenheim Apricots* — Manas Ranch • Mixed Summer Squash & Red Chard — Riverdo [...]
News From the Farm | Week of June 17,...

FarmShares Week of June 10, 2013
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Collards — Full Belly Farm • Black Mission Figs* — Motroni Ranch • Baby Chard & Batavia Lettuce — Riverdog Farm • Plus everything in the Peck
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Baby Green Cabbage & Bintje New Potatoes — Full Belly Farm • Lapin Cherries* & Royal Blenheim Apricots* — Manas Ranch • Blueberries* — Neilson’s Blueberries • Bok Choi [...]
News From the Farm | Week of June 10,...
CSA members may be interested to know about a bill making its way through the California State Senate that would regulate CSAs for the first time. Before getting worried, take note that the legislation became necessary because Environmental Health Departments up and down the state became aware of the existence of CSAs and realized that most [...]
FarmShares Week of June 3, 2013
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Bull’s Blood Beet Greens, Chioggia Beets, Sage & Spinach — Riverdog Farm • Plus everything in the Peck
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Nantes Carrots — Capay Organic • Zucchini — Durst Organic Growers • Green Basil — Full Belly Farm • Royal Blenheim Apricots — Good Humus Produce •Blueberries* — Neilson’s Blueberries • Curly Kale & Fresh Ye [...]
News From the Farm | Week of June 3, ...

Happy Musque Chardonnay
The extremely cool web site What Are You Drinking featured our 2011 Musque Chardonnay clone 809 in their Happy Chardonnay Day column on May 23: Giguiere 2011 Clone No. 809 Musqué Chardonnay ($16) Our first wine is the newest edition to John and Lane Giguiere’s Dunnigan Hills portfolio, Clone No. 809. This grape clone is also referred to as th [...]
FarmShares Week of May 27,2013
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Basil & Magenta Lettuce — Full Belly Farm • Fennel & Red Beets — Riverdog Farm • Plus everything in the Peck
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Bintje New Potatoes & Carrots — Full Belly Farm • Blueberries* — Neilson’s Blueberries • Arugula, Bok Choi, Collards & Red Torpedo Spring Onions — Riverdog Farm •
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Bintje New Potatoes, Carrot [...]
Musque Chardonnay Day
YumSugar on the PopSugar Food web site celebrated Chardonnay Day, May 23, with 2011 Musqué Chardonnay Clone 809: 2011 Matchbook Musqué Chardonnay This Musqué Chardonnay ($16) will shock you with its Muscat-like scent and flavor. As it turns out a specific mutation in the grape causes the phenomenon to occur. According to the wine label, ̶ [...]
Musque is a Beauty
2011 Musque Chardonnay clone 809 is featured in the May issue of Beauty News NYC, the very first on-line beauty magazine: “Americans love Chardonnay, so of course we had to throw one into the mix of our picks. We went with Giguiere 2011 Clone No. 8 Musqué Chardonnay. Unlike the big buttery, toasty treats we know from the Golden State, this fu [...]
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Chasing Venus captures Gold
Our 2012 Chasing Venus Sauvignon Blanc captured a coveted Gold Medal at the prestigious Dallas Morning News Wine Competition! Other awards: 2011 Mossback Russian River Chardonnay – Silver 2011 Mossback Russian River Pinot Noir – Silver 2011 Matchbook Dunnigan Hills Chardonnay – Bronze 2010 Matchbook Malbec – Bronze 200 [...]
Bus Stop
On the flight from California, two hours from our final destination, we discovered the itinerary for our most recent sales trip to Ohio. Not because we wisely used our time on the cross-county flight to catch up on emails, but because we overheard the conversation in the row behind us. The typical in-flight tête-à-tête perked our interest whe [...]
Say YES to Syrah!
Forbes magazine featured our 2010 Matchbook Syrah in their interesting and enlightening article “America’s Syrah Problem and Eight Wines That Will Fix It Forever”. We are pretty proud to be part of the solution! “2010 Matchbook Syrah, Dunnigan Hills, California. Owners and winemakers John and Lane Giguiere believe the [...]