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Our vineyard sits on top of a very steep hill and looks cartoonish - like the drawing from a Dr. Seuss story! It's up above the fog line and gets delicious-warm-loving sun during the final stretch of the growing season in August. These grapes are usually the first Red Grape to come into the winery and are usually very, VERY SWEET - 27.0 Brix - it makes gorgeous wine!! Our 2018 Zinfandel has bright cranberry, lifesaver candy, ripe black cherry, and is a delightful mouthful of candied fruit! These luscious fruit flavors combine with rich chocolate, vanilla-mocha, Asian spice, and white pepper to end on a lusciously smooth finish. You will love this wine. It's been aging 1 year in barrel, showing its true LOVE. Our Zinfandels are bright and candied with soft tannins - very different from their robust Dry Creek Cousins. Russian River Zinfandel takes about 2 years to really shine, but once it does - it easily overtakes all other Sonoma County AVA's. Give it a try - this is wonderful! ~ Nancy
Awards & Accolades
GOLD - 2022 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition
Patrona with Bright honeysuckle, peach, pear, Meyer lemon, and juicy fruit all packed into this bright summer wine! Just 10% Alcohol, and 10% residual sugar. You will love it! We call it summer punch in a bottle!! Only 165 cases remain of this last bottling before harvest 2021 so get your bottles while she is here!! Patrona is on her way!
Awards & Accolades
Silver - 2022 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition
Silver - Sunset Wine Competition '21
Step One: Bleed off the low alcohol, low color juice at the press. Step Two: Take remaining grapes and skins and ferment to dryness, Step Three: Barrel down for 9 months after fermentation. Step four: Drink with a friend! We used these grapes to make our rose and then the balance of the skins were fermented . The resulting zinfandel wine is super concentrated, and deliciously rich.Spicey berry pie flavors and dark chocolate on smooth, velvety tannis. - Nancy
Awards & Accolades
Silver – San Diego Int'l Wine Competition 2019
Silver – San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition 2019
Silver - Sonoma County Harvest Fair 2018
Every single drop of this precious wine is so delicious and concentrated, smooth and pleasing to the pallet! Each person that tastes this wine comments on how much they love this varietal. It's an old vine field planting that yields only 1 ton of grapes per acre - and really shines with quality. Ripe and full-bodied, yet creamy smooth. Only 185 cases made of this lovely wine.
Awards & Accolades
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Gorgeous Cabernet Sauvignon Alexander Valley - dazzle your tongue, and satisfy the most discerning pallet.
Our 2020 Syrah, Fountaingrove District is grown smack dab in the heart of the 2017 firestorm. Luckily the vineyard survived and we are able to continue with this tremendous quality wine. This wine has won GOLD and Double Gold in competitions we enter. Outstanding -Phenomonal- Wonderful!! White Pepper, blueberry, fragrant, floral, dark chocolate on smooth, velvety tannins. - Nancy
Awards & Accolades
GOLD - 2022 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition
Dont' miss out on this small lot, reserve quality, hand crafted Syrah from the hills east of Santa Rosa in the Fountaingrove District AVA of Sonoma County, California, USA
This wine, “Los Amigos,” - means “the friends.” The wine, like its name, is very inviting and lovely to enjoy. The vineyard is small, looks unkempt, and grows right next to the freeway on the east side of the road. It’s an older vineyard and one of the best I have ever worked with. Zinfandel vines are funny - they look tired and worn out, and the fruit is better the uglier the vines look! LOL. We have just taken home GOLD, DOUBLE GOLD, AND 3 Silver medals on this wine and expect to receive gold soon! Enjoy a glass with a friend... ~ Nancy
ACCOLADES
PLATINUM / 95 Points - Critic’s Challenge ’21
GOLD - 2022 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition
GOLD / 94 Points - Sunset Wine Competition ’21
Silver – San Diego Int'l Wine Competition 2019
Silver – San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition 2019
Silver - Sonoma County Harvest Fair 2018
Silver - 2021 International Women’s Wine Competition
Power, elegance, strength and finesse are ample in this generous wine. Rich, pungent aromas leap from the glass, cherry-pit, tar, aniseed, herbs, earthy, cherry liquor, marmalade, citrus blossoms, violet, rose petals, combine in layer after layer of richness that keeps coming in waves. Elaborately flavored, this extraordinarily complex wine is a full-bodied wine that is stuffed with pastry-filling cherries, dried herbs, blackberries, currants and raspberries, with exotic additions of cola, red licorice and vanilla. This wine is easy to enjoy and will continue to please for many years.
Awards & Accolades
Silver - 2022 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition
The little vineyard is located on the valley floor just between St Helena and the town of Napa. This vintage is lovely - Again - Rich, dense, dark, ripe, cherry, earthy, and soft silky-robust tannins invite you to another taste one after another. We age this Cabernet barreled down in 75% new French Oak barrels for 21 months and then bottled. Share a bottle of this wine with your favorite wine lover! ~Nancy
Awards & Accolades
GOLD - 2022 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition
1,400 feet... this wine is pretty lofty grown at 1/4 mile high! This vintage is lovely - Again - Rich, dense, dark, ripe, cherry, earthy, and soft silky-robust tannins invite you to another taste one after another. Our 2017 Howell Mountain Cabernet barreled down in 75% new French Oak barrels for 11 months and then bottled. Share a bottle of this wine with your favorite wine lover! ~Nancy
Awards & Accolades
Best of Class / Double Gold - 2021 International Women’s Wine Competition
PLATINUM / 94 Points - Critic's Challenge '21
GOLD – 2021 North Coast Wine Challenge
GOLD / 92 Points - Sunset Wine Competition ’19
GOLD / 92 Points - San Diego Wine Comp ’19
GOLD / 94 Points - North Coast Wine Challenge ’19
Silver - Sunset Wine Competition '21
Silver - Francisco Chronicle '19
Every single drop of this precious wine is so delicious and concentrated, smooth and pleasing to the pallet! Each person that tastes this wine comments on how much they love this varietal. It's an old vine field planting that yields only 1 ton of grapes per acre - and really shines with quality. Ripe and full-bodied, yet creamy smooth. Only 492 cases made of this lovely wine.
Awards & Accolades
GOLD - 2022 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition
GOLD / 90 Points - Critic's Challenge '21
Our little Ponytails yield robust flavors of concentrated blackberry, ripe fig, high-toned cherry, white pepper, and violets, all on a dreamy bed of vanilla crème and mocha pillows. It is grown North of the town of Healdsburg, just a heartbeat from the Healdsburg Airport. The vines are small and struggle to grow in soil rich in gravel and hilly conditions. We let this vintage hang well into the first week of harvest - but a blast of hot air - from a heatwave -brought us to our knees, and we picked these. We didn’t know it, but we were lucky to do this 2 weeks before the Firestorm of 2018. This wine is rich in white pepper, violets, bright blackberry, and dark chocolate on the finish. Only 75 cases were made, and it may come down to first-come-first-serve for this beautiful wine. With 16.5% alcohol - this wine is certainly not shy but well balanced and lovely! Ponytails took GOLD at the 2020 SAN FRANCISCO WINE COMPETITION. More will undoubtedly follow. Thank you to our growers, Laurie and Robert Pouseman, at the Pony Ranch in Healdsburg! Sante! Nancy
Awards & Accolades
DOUBLE GOLD / 92 Points - Orange County Wine Comp ’19
GOLD / 93 Points - Critic’s Challenge ’21
GOLD / 96 Points - CA State Fair ’19
GOLD - Pacific Rim Wine Comp ’19
Silver - San Diego Wine Comp ’19
Silver - North Coast Wine Challenge ’19
Silver - 2021 International Women’s Wine Competition
These wine infused Premium Oak Pellets are made right here in Wine Country by owners Brenda and Tom Reed. They use wood that was aging in California Red Wines for 3-18 months prior to drying and pelletizing. The wines used may be one or more varietals like Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon, Zinfandel, Caberne Franc, Merlot, Syrah, or Petite Sirah from sunny California. Add and enrich the flavors during your BBQ any time. Makes a great gift for that special someone either back yard BBQ or camping n the go!
