Products Flashcards
Name some key points about Amici
- Produced in Calistoga, both Cabernet and Chardonnay
- Olema and No Curfew are their entry level wines
- Tony Biagi named Winemaker of the Year in 2020
Where is Au Bon Climat located? What style of wine do they produce?
Santa Barbara. Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Founded by Jim Clendenan,one of the first to produce small lot vineyards in SB.
What is notable about Eisele Vineyard?
- Located in Calistoga at the base of the Palisades Mountain range.
- First planted to vines in the 1880s,
- Farmed organically since 1998 and biodynamically since 2000, the site has been principally dedicated to Cabernet Sauvignon for the last fifty years. Beginning with the inaugural release bearing the Eisele name in 1971, this iconic vineyard has received
consistent recognition for possessing one of the great terroirs of Napa Valley. - Determined not to languish in retirement, Milton and Barbara Eisele began a new career as grapegrowers in their 60s. In a prescient move that altered the course of this special place, the Eiseles offered their grapes to Paul Draper, winemaker of Ridge Vineyards. In 1971 Draper produced the first Eisele Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon, one of the first vineyard-designated wines in California. This landmark wine is still beautiful after more than four decades in bottle, and is widely considered to be one of the finest wines ever produced in the Napa Valley.
- is an intense expression of the Eisele Vineyard terroir, exhibiting characteristic flavors of cassis, blackberry, cedar and chocolate, with a lingering mineral finish. Cabernets from the Eisele Vineyard are highly regarded for their complexity, concentration, weight without heaviness, silky texture and ability to age for decades.
Where is Baldacci Wines located?
SLD
What are some selling points for a Baldacci Wines?
- Family owned
- Winemaker Rolando Herrera worked his way up from a laborer building a wall at Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars to winemaker at Baldacci
Make wines from Calistoga, Coombsville, Stag’s Leap, Carneros
- Make Elizabeth Pinot Noir
- Make Four Sons Frayernity Napa
-Make Baldacci Chardonnay Sorelle Carneros
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Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars is significant because
—In 1976 Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars won the Paris Tasting over top Bordeaux estates
and
—In 1974 consulting winemaker Andre Tchelistcheff helped do something
—Marcus Nataro winemaker
Stag’s Leap Winery is different from Stags’ Leap Winery. True or False
True. Stags’ Leap Winery is old. First planted in 1872. Berlinger purchased the estate in 1996.
They make wines from SLD, Rutherford, Coombsville and Napa Vallet
Barnett Wines, by David Tate, are estate wines produced on
Spring Mountain or a single vineyard in another viticulture district
Original estate vines are almost 30 years old
Bevan Cellars wines consistently earn high scores in the 90s, even 15 perfect scores. Where are they sourced and who is the winemaker?
Russell Bevan, winemaker, sources grapes from various premium vineyards in eastern Oakville and in Sonoma. He looks for vineyards with the “wow” factor.
Eastern Oakville is one of the valley’s sweetest spots for premium red wines.
Black Cordon Cab Sauvignon, 16 x20 Cabernet and 16 x 20 Chardonnay are products of which winemaker?
Julian Gonzalez. He was head winemaker for Paul Hobbs Consulting. Worked for Dominus, Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars and Baldacci.
Why would Blankiet wines be a good purchase?
Vineyards are on Paradise Hill, just above the famed Napanook Vineyard in Yountville
Grapes grow at the foothills of Mayacamas Mountains, get a lot of sun during the day and cooling from SPB breezes
Grapes take a long time to mature allowing for riper tannins, dark color and deep perfumes
High quality Bordeaux blends with Mythicus being 100% Cabernet Sauvignon
Organic farming practices
4th generation winemaker, Graeme MacDonald, whose great grandparents sold grapes to Robert Mondavi
A customer wants to buy wine from the famed Pritchard Hill in Napa. What wine would you sell and what would you say about Pritchard Hill?
BRYANT ESTATE reflects the vision of proprietors Don and Bettina Bryant. After purchasing land on Pritchard Hill nearly 30 years ago, Don replanted the estate with 100% Cabernet Sauvignon, employing modern viticulture practices and nurturing a team of local and international masters of their craft. His efforts quickly established one of California’s premier First Growth wines, the Bryant Family Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon, now among Napa Valley’s most acclaimed labels. BRYANT ESTATE wines are currently harvested, blended and produced entirely by hand from grapes planted and grown on the original 13-acre estate, as well as on neighboring vineyards on Howell Mountain, Las Posadas and Madrona. The wines are also bottled, labeled, wrapped and packed by hand on the estate, then shipped directly to customers.
Pritchard Hill wines are rich, soft, round, and mellow. Most of the vineyards are 800-2000 feet above sea level. Considered to be the best grape growing region in Napa Valley.
Which of these wineries does not use grapes grown on Pritchard Hill?
Bryant Family
Chappellet
Colgin
Continuum
Eisele is in Calistoga
Mooney Tsai
Winery founded by Agoston Haraszthy in Sonoma as the first commercial winery in California.
Buena Vista (1857). Old Winery Road Cabernet.
Who founded Caymus?
Chuck Wagner
Which Oak Knoll Cabernet winery is run by Jay Corley’s three sons?
Corley Family\Monticello. They make Merlot, Pinot Noir and Cabernet for our stores. One of the founding wineries of the new Oak Knoll District in 1968, building a winery near the Napa Valley River.
We carry Cabernet Reserve, Proprietrary Red, and Cabernet State Lane (Yountville)
At just twenty planted acres this fantastically diverse wine estate is sculpted by centuries of geologic activity. Ideally suited to growing Cabernet Sauvignon, the site is divided into four distinct vineyards, each with its own terroir arising from different soils and microclimates.
Diamond Creek, founded by Al Brounstein in 1968 focusing solely on Cabernet >Gravely Meadows >Red Rock Terrace >Volcanic Hill >Lake Vineyard
Paso Robles wine created by two Lebanese brothers
Daou Wines by owners George and Daniel Daou. Interesting story. Daniel Daou is the winemaker.
> Daou Cabernet Reserve
Daou Estate Cabernet (Adelaida District)
Daou Soul of a Lion (Adelaida District)
Hailed decades earlier as a “jewel of ecological elements” by legendary winemaker André Tchelistcheff, DAOU Mountain was rediscovered by brothers Georges and Daniel Daou in 2007. Their quest for a sublime terroir ended here, on steep slopes that ascend to an elevation of 2,200 feet, all blessed with the type of calcareous clay soil found in the greatest appellations. The Adelaida District would soon become the world’s newest benchmark for Cabernet Sauvignon.
This Pinot Noir from Dundee Hills bested the most prestigious winery in the world, Domaine de la Romanee Conti, in a blind tasting of 3 wines from each producer in vintages 1998, 1999, and 2000.
Domaine Serene, owned by Ken and Grace Evenstad who dreamed of fashioning pinot noir like those of Bourgogne
Places first, second and third with the 1998 and 1999 vintages, and first and second with the 2000 vintage.
Founded in 1990 by Minnesota transplants who are credited with creating Oregon’s luxury wine industry. The Evenstads had faith in Oregon early on, before there was a national market for domestic Pinot Noir.
Only two wines are produced by this Yountville winemaker and owner, Christian Mouiex
Dominus and Napanook
In 1983, Christian Moueix began producing Dominus from the historic Napanook vineyard in Yountville.
We produce wines that reflect the purity, complexity and character of grapes grown exclusively from the Napanook vineyard. This unique provenance qualifies our wines as estate-bottled, a rarely found designation.
The character of a wine is defined by the grapes at harvest. With our extensive efforts in the vineyard, once we have the grapes in hand, our winemaking practice is minimalist:
Thorough cluster sorting by hand.
Optical sorting of berries.
Gentle pump-overs delicately extract aromas, color, tannin, and reveal the personality of each lot.
Hand-racking barrel to barrel every three months using the esquive.
Which wine empire did this couple found in 1976, and what wine did they focus on emulating?
A great fan of Merlot since traveling to St. Emilion and Pomerol, Dan Duckhorn felt that this elegant varietal was under appreciated in North America.
Total Wine carries, in addition to Merlot, their Howell Mountain Cabernet, Paraduxx, Goldeneye Pinot Noir, and Canvasbak Cabernet. There are other high end options in the $100 price range.
This mountain winemaker has ties to Caymus as its former winemaker
Randy Dunn
These vineyards were part of the 1841 Mexican land grant
Eisele vineyards in Calistoga
This Rutherford winemaker fashioned the winning Chardonnay at judgement of Paristasting but went on to win the Great Chardonnay Showdown in 1980
Grgich Hills, owner Mike Grgich. Winemaker is his nephew, Ivo and his daughter Violet handles sales
