Baker's dozen of last minute Christmas ideas⏤Lodi wineries' top-of-the-line bottlings

Lodi Wine Visitor Center, the best place for one-stop-shopping the finest wines grown in Lodi.

Just seven more days of Christmas shopping. There is plenty of time if you are living in or within striking distance of Lodi wine country to pick up top-of-the-line bottlings from the local wineries.

Another great one-stop-shopping idea: The Lodi Wine Visitor Center, located at the corner of W. Turner and Lower Sacramento Roads (on the same site as Wine & Roses Hotel). The original idea of the Lodi Wine Visitor Center when first established by Lodi Winegrape Commission in the late 1990s was to provide a tasting room and retail outlet for wineries and brands that do not have tasting rooms. 

Today, the Lodi Wine Visitor Center performs the same function, while offering a wide assortment of carefully curated wines (i.e., wines that exemplify "Lodi" on a sensory level) from the local wineries...

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LODI RULES: California’s Original Sustainable Winegrowing Program

Centuries old blue oaks, native to Lodi's hillside regions, in Bokisch Vineyards' Terra Alta Vineyard, which is certified both sustainably and organically.

Guest post by Lisa Waterman Gray

Today's Lodi Wine post gives props to Lisa Waterman Gray for her excellent elucidation of LODI RULES, Lodi's industry leading sustainable program. More than ever, environmentally conscious consumers are prioritizing sustainability as a factor in their choices of wines—one of the vestiges of climate change.

Ms. Gray's article on LODI RULES was originally published by The Alcohol Professor—an online page self-described as "The class you always wanted to take"—and was generously loaned to us by Editor-in-Chief Amy Sherman of San Francisco (thank you, Amy!).

Gray's perspective is that of a Kansas-based food and beverage writer who goes coast to coast seeking out the most significant stories. As interesting as Lodi wines have become, she identifies LODI RULES as one of the region's most significant attributes. She pours heart, soul and enthusiasm into her narrative, told through interviews with some of Lodi's leading sustainable proponents...

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2024's ten most interesting wines of Lodi

2024 Pinotage harvest in Lodi's Mokelumne River AVA.

Guest post by Bob Highfill

Lodi Wine welcomes guest contributor Bob Highfill, asked to share his personal list of "2024's ten most interesting wines" grown in Lodi because of his unique perspective. Bob himself might cite his prior experience as a newspaper wine columnist for Stockton's The Record, a brief stint as Marketing and Communications Manager for the Lodi Winegrape Commission and his current status as the Lodi focused online wine columnist for Stocktonia.org.

What impresses us most, though, is the fact that he spent most of his prior 27 years at The Record as a sports reporter and the daily newspaper's sports editor; not to mention previous stops as sports director of KGW Radio and as a securities broker at Dean Witter...

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