September 22, 2022 

Greetings on the first day of Fall from Sonoma County! 

Harvest 2022 
We’re in the home stretch! Would you believe we’re waiting on the ground to dry a bit before we harvest our final pinot…

Reposted from our September 16, 2022 email. 

Good morning from a chilly morning in Healdsburg. What a difference from this time last week battling the "heat dome". Eric is in the Anderson Valley checking on our pinot noir, we're…

JULY 11, 2022 

“Don’t get the popular circle confused with the winner’s circle”. 

I think most of us these days could use a pick me up, be proud of where you are, where you’ve come from and stay…

June 21, 2022

We are often asked for day-trip ideas, places to go, things to see and new wines to sip. 

Here’s a day we’ve been enjoying for years now. Before we started Smith Story, this was a…

"It's so hard to win’, MVP Stephen Curry.  

I grew up in a big sports family in Texas, iconic Larry Bird posters (among others) hung on my little brother’s bedroom wall. "A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given…

Fabulous to see our 2019 Smith Story, Helluva Vineyard, Pinot Noir, Anderson Valley featured in the Wall Street Journal. The WSJ Wine Editor visited with us in our new tasting room a few months ago. Lovely to taste with Lettie…

LIVE ALOHA! 
Spring is in full bloom here in wine country and the summer season is right around the corner. With that comes relaxing by the water, grilling with friends, and late nights with your nose in a page turner…

In 2012 Eric and I both agreed that Sauvignon Blanc was going to be a staple for Smith Story Wine Cellars. This was two years before we harvested our first grapes. Since then, our Loire inspired Sauvignon Blanc made from…

Springing forward today has a deeper meaning this year. Slowly rising from these past two years together, we lose an hour, but what's 60 minutes when we've made it thus far? So here we are, tentatively stepping toward post-pandemica, daring…

COVERING THE PLANTS

I'm sitting here behind the desk in the tasting room on the coldest day of the year so far. I was planning on staying home today, wrapped up in a blanket doing work in the comfort…

Hi everyone, oh I’m back! 

I’ve missed writing to you and storytelling so much these past 11 months during my breast cancer treatments. Today I feel the best I have in a very long while. I’m turning fifty-years-old in…

God Rest Ye Merry Story Family! Let Nothing You Dismay...

This Christmas song has been in our heads, changed up the words a few weeks back to keep us smiling through the holiday season. What a year, two years…