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Ripe-spicy berry fruit with dark, black inky color. The wine is dense, dreamy and very concentrated blackberry, and dark chocolate flavors and aromas. Only 390 cases made.
Awards & Accolades
Best of Class - North Coast Wine Challenge ’19
Silver - Pacific Rim Wine Comp ’19
Silver / 86 Points - Orange County Wine Comp ’19
Silver - West Coast Wine Comp ’18
Silver - Orange County Wine Comp ’18
Silver - San Diego Wine Comp '19
Silver - 2021 International Women’s Wine Competition
Silver - Sunset Wine Competition '21
Our 2016 Zinfandel has bright cranberry, lifesaver candy, ripe black cherry, and is a delightful mouthful of candied fruit! All these 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 and in the bottle for the past 12 months and is showing its true perfection now. I absolutely love to make Zinfandel from the Russian River Valley because it is so fruit-filled and satisfying year after year. Grown in a cool area well suited for Pinot Noir, there are pockets here-where the heat radiates off the hills and plantings are done right from the beginning and these 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 - Orange County ‘17
Silver - Orange County Wine Comp ’18
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
Elegantly Rich; Masterfully Crafted; Decadently Layered; Powerfully Enticing, and Gracefully refined. Aromas of Cherry blossoms, Hibiscus and jasmine tea, creme brulee, buttercream, pie dough, cherry tart, caramel, tar, dried grass, herbs, crushed earth, cherry liquor, rose petals; with flavors of ripe red fruit, red licorice, and cotton candy, toasted oak, cola, smooth finish. I keep pairing Our Pinot Noir with Ghirardelli Dark Chocolate with Sea Salt Caramel. The lovely match brings out the Cherry in the wine. Sante! Nancy
Awards & Accolades
Silver - Orange County ‘17
Silver - New World Wine Comp‘18
Silver - West Coast Wine Comp ’18
Silver - West Coast Wine Comp ‘18
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 / 90 Points - Sunset Wine Competition ’19
GOLD - Orange County 2017
GOLD - Orange County Wine Comp '18
Silver / 88 Points - CA State Fair ‘19
Silver / 88 Points - Orange County Wine Comp ’19
Silver - 2021 International Women’s Wine Competition
I L-O-V-E Monterey Pinot Noir! This wine is my favorite to drink at home. Our 2014 Pinot Noir, Monterey has dried cherry pit, red cranberry fruit, earthy-moist-loam, raspberries, dried herbs, and tar combine with leafy and earthy vine flavors. Subtle butterscotch, vanilla, and cotton candy aromas and flavors blend with all this fruit to make a wonderful sip. This well-balanced, elegant wine has a long delightful finish. The grapes are picked at optimum ripeness, 25.7 Brix for this vintage and the resulting fermentation ran for 8 days with mechanical punch down, pressing directly to barrel down with malo-lactic completing in the barrel.
Awards & Accolades
GOLD - West Coast Wine Comp ‘18
GOLD - New World Wine Comp ‘18
Silver - Sunset Wine Competition '21
Silver / 88 Points - CA State Fair ‘19
Silver - Pacific Rim Wine Comp ’19
Silver - SF Chronicle Wine Comp ‘18
Silver - Orange County 2017
LARGE bottle format wines are available multiple varietals including Zinfandel Dry Creek Valley, Petite Sirah Dry Creek Valley, Pinot Noir Monterey, Pinot Noir Russian River Valley, Cabernet Sauvignon Howell Mountain and span multiple vintages. A real collector's item available to everyone until they sell out. The bottles are handsomely painted in 24 karat gold and etched to add a special touch. Buy a few and lay them down to age and you will be astounded at the transformation! Hand bottled and dipped in wax. Our wine club members receive a 25% discount on these beauties in November and December only. You can always call us to place an additional order at 707-431-8749.
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. This is usually the first Red Grape to come into the winery and is usually very, VERY SWEET 27.0 Brix - it makes gorgeous wine!! Our 2017 Zinfandel has bright cranberry, lifesaver candy, ripe black cherry, and is a delightful mouthful of candied fruit! All these 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 / 93 Points - Critic's Challenge '21
GOLD - PD North Coast Wine Challenge 2019
Silver – Orange County Wine Comp
We have a very limited supply of this wine, and down to a few cases. Nancy has made another blockbuster port. It is Dark-Dense-Delicious with flavors of blackberry, cassis, and blueberries complemented with notes of dark milk chocolate, this is sweet and viscous in the mouth, blanketing the palate with a fine, velvety tannin. We have only 100 cases in barrel and are making it available now.
Awards & Accolades
Best of Class - Orange County ‘17
Double GOLD - Orange County ‘17
Best of Class - California State Fair Wine Comp ‘14
Best of California - California State Fair Wine Comp ‘14
Best of Class - LA International Wine Competition ‘14
Double Gold - LA International Wine Competition ‘14
GOLD - San Diego Wine Competition ‘14
GOLD - Orange County Fair Wine Comp ‘14
GOLD - Orange County 2017
GOLD - SF Chronicle Wine Comp ‘18
Silver - West Coast Wine Comp ‘18
Silver - New World Wine Comp ‘18
Silver – Orange County Wine Comp '18
