Chris Turkovich 🍇🥩🍾

Hydration break during the warm afternoon of vineyard grazing

Caveman tv had a good prime time show this weekend

Rosé starts today. Fresh and cool Grenache makes the best rosé both still and sparkling

Summer time reds going into the bottle. Making some room for this years harvest.

Anyone in Northern California that wants to celebrate Bitcoin Pizza Day. Come by the winery tomorrow afternoon we will be celebrating

Getting ready for the future neighbors. They look like a nice family

AI is taking jobs: it’s going to be a while before it takes mine

Spring time in the vineyard. Cover cropping done right. Regenerative management expands the space for bees, butterflies, snakes, and birds to all contribute to the ecosystem, all of which adds to quality and unique wines that can not be reproduced elsewhere

Bud break time spring is here early this year. Following a dry winter. Every year brings something different

What are you looking at?

New crop of lambs dropped last week. A bunch of happy mamma and babies

Inspiration episode. Well done

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Bloom time in the almonds

New Albariño filling day. Fresh and crisp getting ready for a spring release in a few weeks.

Great guests ad episode

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Topping wine barrels today. Trying to keep the “angels share” at bay. We need to finish up soon. This room need to get cleaned up so we can host our Bitcoin Holiday Party on the 18th!

Get your order today to receive your wines in time for Thanksgiving…winemaker pro tip: Grenache is the best red wine pairing for turkey

Olive harvest going straight to the mill and press. Fresh extra virgin olive oil coming soon

Rain coming tomorrow. Makes for a horizon to horizon sunset tonight

Big day for Argentina, another big step toward a bright future for Argentina and also for the rest of the west to see a path out irresponsible trajectory all western governments are headed

More rainbows and fall weather. Harvest is over…except olives and walnuts. October is an amazing month in NorthernCA

Nature is amazing. Sierra thunder storm

New release! Our flagship red blend called “The Boss” now has a fresh bitcoin edition label. To go along with our new label is our new Bitcoin only website: www.bitcoinvintner.com Buy wine join our WineClub…tell a friend and Cheers!

Stay humble, stack sats, enjoy life

Last fermentation of the year. Wild yeast fermented Mourvèdre from our estate vineyard. This vineyard is 5 years old and has never been sprayed. And now with our sheep flock doing all the weed control. The only time a tractor entered this vineyard was for harvest. Yes, a single tractor pass the whole year!

Good evening

GM….Cab Franc for your wake up call. You are looking at a current temperature of 59 degrees and today is going to be clear and sunny with a high of 88 degrees.

Next generation of grape stompers in action. The Turkovich girls are showing their city boys cousins how work gets done at the winery. #family #kidsworking #farmlife

GM

How do you know if you are on the right track in life?…sometimes there are signs

Labor continues to get harder to find and more expensive. Over the last few years we have moved from 100% hand harvesting our grapes to now we are 90% mechanical harvesting. The machines today are surprisingly gentle on the vines and the fruit. And we are able to get the grapes to the winery much quicker so the fruit is colder and we get a better cold soak prior to the fermentation starting. #nostrag #harvest #farmmachines

Hill side Cabernet Sauvignon hand picked today. This will keep us busy for the day. Mild weather has been amazing and much appreciated.

Syrah picked loaded. Winery here we come

Farmer tip of the day. Welding with crappie gloves has consequences

Best empanadas outside of Argentina

Albariño sampling this morning, looks like it will be ready early next week. Sugar and acid are developing perfectly and the canopy and clusters are in great shape.

First day of the 2025 vintage. Harvest underway. Lining up to be a great year.

Last call for lambs for the 2025 season. Top quality meat raised regeneratively in our orchards and vineyard We have a few left unsold for this season. All grass fed/finished. 15% discount for BTC purchases. https://turkovichwines.com/product-category/62/ DM me if you are interested, we can ship within the entire USA

Mourvèdre grapes ripening beautifully.

Friends and fellow prune farmers from Chile visited us today. It was interesting to reminisce I worked in Chile back in 2007. Back then Argentina was a socialist hell hole and had no future and Chile was the shining star of South America and a model from more the rest of the continent. Fast forward and today Argentina is on a fast track to a free market model for the rest of the developed world and Chile is regressing into a socialist backwater of South America. The world and time are fascinating

Super excited to have partnered with

and supplying some wine to help advance BTC. Keep up the good work

Summer is here: cover crops have dried up. The residual crop residue has formed and armor protecting the soil. Keeping the soil temperature lower and the warm dry air circulates through the vines and keeps mildew pressure non existent. The clusters are developing nicely and ideal growing season so far

Pollinators out in full force on the artichokes

My plan was to be in Vegas this last week, but bottling schedule got in the way…all and all a good week for the family and good week for the farm/winery and a good week for BTC.

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Looks simple, but there are only a handful of producers that graze their vineyards during the growing season. There is a ton of green washing going on in marketing these days. This is what regenerative farming looks like.

New all time high going to celebrate tomorrow night at our pizza night.

Before and after grazing. The lambs take a lot off the top. But about 30-40% remains for regrow to as well as is trampled which helps preserve moisture in the soil and keep soil microbes active and healthy

Moving in for the dangerous grazing pass of the year. Unaverted sheep in a growing vineyard. The sheep love grape leaves so we have to keep them moving so they remove some leaves from the vineyard but not hammer them and we loose all our crop

Spring time is the best, grazing crew is working until the sun goes down. Sunsets are amazing

A little bit of happiness for your Monday morning #GM #nostrfarm

Calling all Northern California bitcoiners. In honor of pizza day this year our winery will be hosting Pizza Night. Wine, music and pizza and enjoy the sunset on the terrace over looking the vineyard. Fiat accepted, bitcoin preferred

Now accepting orders for whole or half grass fed lambs for the 2025 season. Sampler packs available as well which include Merguez sausage and bone broth. Website has details and can accommodate fiat purchases. Message me for BTC payments. Bitcoin purchases receive 20% discount. (Bitcoin pricing: $494 whole/$247 half lamb) Help spread the word. I am happy to answer any questions on farming and animal husbandry practices. Additional info can be found here www.turkovichwines.com/grazing/

Full bloom underway in the prunes. And next week bud break in the grapes

Bloom time, prune time. The next ten days is the critical time for the crop to be set for the year…fingers crossed no major winds, frost or heat…our ability to stack sats this year depends on it. 🤞

We got a break in the rain yesterday and had a chance to move half the flock from the walnut orchards to the vineyard. Spring time is awesome

Prune bloom is coming one week from now everything will be white with blossoms

Tagging, health checks, weighing today and here we go. Orchard and vineyard grazing crew prepping for work

Lake Berryessa’s Gloryhole is flowing. It never gets old seeing this

Calm before the storm. A quiet winery today. But bottling starts tomorrow. Three days of bottling coming up. White wines up first. Chardonnay, Roussanne, Viognier and our Estate blend

This is one of the reasons why people still stay in California. Transplants can be planted outside today February 22. It’s 75 degrees out with nighttime temps in the mid 40s. Basically a year round growing season

WineClub pickups this weekend. Sun is out and grass is growing. Spring lambs move into the vineyard on Monday. Almond blooms is in full swing and the seasons are changing in Northern California.

Storm is rolling in. We are supposed to get over 2” in the next 12 hours. Great for the water supply. Not good for the neighbors in socal in the burned areas 🙏

Awesome evening at the Yolo County cattleman’s and woolgrowers association annual event. There was some awesome meat and wine pairings going on here tonight.

“Dry January” in more ways than one. Now looking outside it looks like “Blackout drunk” February

Finally some rain is on its way. We have some thirsty wheat that will really appreciate a drink

Grass fed lamb meat available and this year I am happy to announce I can accept sats for this high quality protein. As clean and direct as it gets: Sunshine-grass-meat-BTC Let me know if anyone is interested: I am offering anyone playing in BTC the same discount as my members receive. $524 whole lamb (35lbs meat) and $262 (half lamb. 17lbs) Normal retail (non member or fiat) is $617 shh only showing this on Nostr. More to come on this soon we will have additional products including offal ground lamb, bone broth, and merguez sausage. Limited supply this year as we start to increase our animal numbers. #grassfed #carnivore #smallproducer #direct-to consumer #healthyprotein #lamb&wine

Sorting and selection lambs for vineyard grazing this year. Limited supply of grass fed lambs available later this year. Part of our regenerative farming operations. Let me know if you are interested in high quality, clean protein. Half and whole lambs available (half lamb is 15-20lbs of meat, whole lambs are 30-45 lbs). We can ship and yes lamb and red wine pair beautifully. And most importantly, sales in BTC preferred and receive discounts. Shipping available nation wide (USA).