We are excited to report that our 2005 Benziger Cabernet - Puma Springs Vineyards designated wine, is now sold out!  The 2006 vintage will be available for sale in the spring of 2009.

With weather reported directly from our vineyard and updated several times a day.

The growing season and harvest have been quite unusual in 2008, with a dry start, late frosts and long heat spells, then a harvest spread over 6 weeks. 

This year we have had a pair of Golden Eagles and a juvenile take up residence near the vineyard.

If you have been by Puma Springs Vineyards lately, you will see a lot of activity in the vineyard, but not of the grape growing variety.

Instead there are herds of sheep roaming around grazing on the ground. Sheep in a vineyard you ask? Most certainly! They are the world’s best lawn mowers! While vineyards don’t have lawns, they do have weeds.

The Old English Babydoll Miniature Southdown sheep we rented from Canvas Ranch in Petaluma (www.canvasranch.com). The job of the sheep is to eat weeds and control the cover crop, while at the same time providing “natural” fertilizer back into the soil. They came in mid-February and “have been munching away ever since”.

For more info on the Babydoll sheep, please contact:

CANVAS RANCH
755 TOMALES ROAD
PETALUMA, CA 94952
707.766.7171
info@canvasranch.com