Roots Run Deep Winery was founded by vintner Mark Albrecht and is the parent company to his various brands including his largest production wine, Educated Guess. The winery has produced a number of labels over the years; as of our latest update to this review they currently produce the following wine brands: Educated Guess, Hypothesis, The Graduate, Bound … [Read more...]
RH Wine Vault
RH Wine Vault is located across the street and just down from the famed French Laundry restaurant. Formerly the tasting building known as Ma(i)sonry - this fancy spelling of the word masonry refers to the trade of constructing a building from stone. This old stone building used to be a former distillery and was completely gutted and elegantly restored a … [Read more...]
ADAMVS
ADAMVS was founded by Denise and Stephen Adams with the purchase of 76 acres on Howell Mountain in 2008. Prior to their purchase, this was the home of White Cottage Ranch Winery. While this is their first Napa Valley winery, Denise and Stephen are not new to the wine industry. They have long been attracted to France; they were married in the Dordogne and … [Read more...]
Leto Cellars
Leto Cellars was founded in 2008 by long time Napa veteran winemaker Brad Warner and his wife Lisa. Their first wine was a Chardonnay. While not owning any vineyards, they work with small family growers in select locations - mostly within Napa Valley. Brad was born in Sebastopol in neighboring Sonoma County and was raised on the Mendocino coastline of … [Read more...]
Sawyer Cellars
Sawyer Cellars was founded by Charles and Joanne Sawyer in 1991 with their first vintage, 120 cases of a Cabernet Sauvignon. Charles is the former owner of a company that bears his namesake, Sawyer Gas based in Jacksonville, Florida (now part of the national AmeriGas Company). This sizable company operated from 1960 until Charles sold it in 1991; the time of … [Read more...]
Morey Cellars
Morey Cellars was founded by Robert Morey with his first commercial release in 2000. Robert was born in Lisbon, Portugal and immigrated to Orange County in Southern California after high school to attend college. He went to the University of California Irvine and studied Theoretical Computer Science. Following his time in Southern California, he moved to … [Read more...]
E. Gordon Cellars
E. Gordon Wines. Owner and wine maker Eric Gordon was an 'air-force kid' as he says, having grown up in the Caribbean - spending his formative years in the Dominican Republic - often taking weekend trips to Puerto Rico. Later he attended college at the University of South Florida, graduating with a BS Biology degree with a focus on Zoology. It was a trip to … [Read more...]
DeSante Wines
DeSante Wines. At age 10, Napa Valley winemaker David DeSante had an inkling he might want to pursue wine making someday. His introduction to wine started simply enough; in western Pennsylvania where he was born and raised, Concord grapes are commonly grown. He recalls climbing trees to pick bunches of Concord grapes one summer, carrying them back to his … [Read more...]
APPELLATION NAPA VALLEY
Well respected vintner, author, artist, professor and lawyer, Richard Mendelson has written the heavyweight on the history of Napa Valley's appellations. He and his wife Marilyn first visited the Napa Valley in 1979 - a few years before the Napa Valley would be granted viticultural status in 1981 which was followed by 16 more viticultural area … [Read more...]
Apriori Cellar
Apriori Cellar was founded by former high school classmates Patrice Breton and Georges Sabongui. Both met in high school in Ottawa, Canada - were friends and then as often happens after high school they lost contact with each other. Interestingly both became involved in the high tech industry. Georges has enjoyed wine for many years and moved west to be … [Read more...]
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