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"What is the most important thing in a grape’s life?" It took me two full seasons to answer that honestly. Not with theory. Not with dogma. But with observation, failure, correction, and patience.

The Work of Eighty Hands: A Look Back at 2025 - people, patience, and precision. From 3.6 million pruning decisions to harvest at MocToe’s Elephant Mountain.

Go behind the scenes of the MocToe 2025 harvest. Discover how foresight and a perfect summer created a vintage of exceptional quality and character.

The high-elevation Elephant Mountain Vineyard in WA is recognized among the state’s most respected and dependable sources of premium grapes, and its Cabernet Sauvignon is promising to be among the world's best.

Hattrup Farms, home to the renowned Elephant Mountain and Sugarloaf Vineyards in Washington State’s Rattlesnake Hills AVA, has been acquired by Andrew Schultz of Brothers in Farms (a vineyard management company), and Tinte Estates, owned by Tim Gamble and Teresa Spellman Gamble.

Hattrup Farms, home to the renowned Elephant Mountain and Sugarloaf Vineyards in Washington State’s Rattlesnake Hills AVA, has been acquired by Andrew Schultz of Brothers in Farms (a vineyard management company), and Tinte Estates, owned by Tim Gamble and Teresa Spellman Gamble.

Manipulative action fails of itself; clutching control, it slips from your grasp. Things sometimes move forward, or follow behind. life...

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"Do not-doing; manage affairs with effortless effort. Know by not-knowing;savor the flavor of the unadulterated. Great or small, many or...