Wines
For our wines, we carefully select only
grapes from old-growth, hillside vineyards with low harvest-yields
to intensify the ripe flavors and aromas of the grapes. Moreover,
we hand-harvest the grapes when they taste ripe,
not when they have a predetermined sugar level (we have found
that, even with a theoretical ideal sugar level, the grapes
do not necessarily have the flavors we want, so we pick on
how they taste), and then hand-sort
the grapes to help ensure that only the best fruit is used
in our wine. We then craft our wine with a maximal
naturalist / minimal interventionist approach,
age our wine only in high-quality French oak barrels, and
bottle our wine when the ripe berry flavors have been enriched,
but not overwhelmed, by the oak.
Our objective is to make a food-friendly,
high-quality, medium-bodied, well-integrated, moderate-alcohol
wine that will complement your food,
and that will enable you to taste and experience
the natural, ripe, lush flavors and bouquet,
and the rich varietal character and supple mouth-feel
of our wine.
We produce a limited selection and quantity
of wines in order to maintain the artisan, high-quality standards
of our wine. Specifically, if we think the grapes are
suitable at harvest, we produce some of the following varietal
red wines:
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Cabernet Sauvignon
Syrah
Petite Sirah
Zinfandel
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Our 2006
vintage wines have now been released for your enjoyment!
However, relax, we have reserved some of our previous
vintage wines for you on a first-come, first-served basis.
Our 2006 vintage wines include
Cabernet Sauvignon
(Stags Leap District), Syrah
(Calif.Shenandoah Valley), and Zinfandel
(Russian River Valley), and are
all crafted in our elegant, food-friendly style:
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Our 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon
received the very prestigious
Platinum Medal at the 2009
Wine Critics International Wine Competition.
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Our 2006 Syrah received
the very prestigious Double-Gold
Medal at the 2009
San Francisco International Wine Competition.
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Our 2006
Zinfandel received the prestigious Silver
Medal at the 2009
San Francisco International Wine Competition.
All of our 2006
wines were (1) barrel-aged for 17 months
in high-quality French oak barrels (we used a mix of new and
one-vintage-old barrels in order to give the wines the optimum
time in the barrels to soften their tannins, to integrate
their flavors, and to extract enough oak tannins to enhance
the flavor and taste complexity of our wines without over-whelming
the fruit flavors), and then (2) bottle-aged for 12 months
before releasing them to give the wines time to "relax"
(to get over "bottle shock") and to further develop
their soft tannins, rich flavors, and balanced, smooth, mouth-feel
and finish.
All of our wines have been crafted in
an elegant, medium-bodied, very food-friendly style, with
moderate-alcohol and soft French oak tannins, and are well-integrated,
well-balanced with ripe berry flavors and delicious, subtle
bouquets of varietal fruits and aromas:
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2006
Cabernet Sauvignon
This
varietal is made from world-class grapes
grown in the Stags Leap District appellation
in Napa Valley. It is a fruit-forward,
lusciously structured, supple wine with
a medium-bodied mouthfeel and subtle
flavors of ripe currant (cassis), blackberry,
plum, and black pepper.
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2006 Syrah
This varietal is made from mature-vine grapes
from the the highly-regarded California
Shenandoah Valley appellation in Amador
County. It is a delicious, fruit-forward,
medium-bodied wine with subtle flavors of
ripe black cherry, blackberry, leather,
mushroom, and black pepper.
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Zinfandel
This varietal is made from old-vine grapes from
the highly-acclaimed Russian River Valley
appellation in Sonoma County. It is
a medium-bodied, very supple, well-balanced
wine with subtle flavors of ripe black cherry,
blackberry, black pepper, licorice, and
leather.
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If you would like to purchase our wines,
please go to our Order
page. If you would like to receive our Wine Club discounts
and first notification of our next wine release, please join our
Wine Club.
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