Component Wine Company is one of four wine brands part of the Vin Fraîche Wine Group - a collection of sommelier and winemaker created and owned wines ranging from vineyards in California, Oregon, Washington, Bordeaux and Tuscany. The wine brands are Component Wines (Napa Valley & Bordeaux), Gagnon-Kennedy (primarily Napa Valley), SOM, State of Mind (Oregon, … [Read more...]
Outpost Wines
Outpost Winery is located on top of Summit Lake Drive at an elevation of 2200 feet – about 10 minutes outside of the small town of Angwin. This road should almost be called Zinfandel Drive as several other premium Zinfandel producers are located within minutes of Outpost off of this same road. This is in northern Napa Valley's Howell Mountain appellation. As … [Read more...]
Aum Cellars
Aum Cellars is owned and operated by Peter Hoffman, a fellow Cal Poly, SLO graduate who also shares the same somewhat esoteric major as us, a Bachelor of Science, Ecology, Systemic Biology. Peter grew up in and around what was at the time one of California's largest vineyards in Rancho Cucamonga (Southern California). His family has been involved in … [Read more...]
Chateau Montelena
Chateau Montelena is located in the northern part of Napa Valley off of Tubbs Lane (in between old Faithful Geyser and Highway 29). The property is removed from the typical Napa Valley wine route but is well worth the drive for a visit and a tasting. A stop here feels far removed from the busy wine strip south of St. Helena, although it can get very busy … [Read more...]
Scarecrow
Scarecrow was founded in 2003 (inaugural vintage) by artists Bret Lopez and Mimi DeBlasio. But the story begins with Judge Joseph Cohn, Bret's grandfather. Cohn was born in Harlem in 1895; his family was very poor. Lopez remembers visiting his grandparents at their home for dinner and wondering why his grandfather always had two loaves of bread in the … [Read more...]
Kazumi Wines
Kazumi Wines was founded by Michelle Sakazaki with her first vintage from 2015. The name Kazumi honors her Japanese heritage, with 和(kazu) meaning harmony and 美(mi) referring to beauty. The inception of Kazumi is rooted in friendship, timing and being in the right place at the right time. Michelle is good friends with growers, the Perret family, the founders … [Read more...]
Bella Union Winery
Bella Union Winery. Bella Union's first vintage was in 2012, a Cabernet Sauvignon; the wine was produced for several years at the old Del Bondio Winery on Bella Oaks Lane in Rutherford and also at Nickel and Nickel. Bella Union only produced Cabernet Sauvignon for 10 years. In late 2021 Far Niente Wine Estates (FNWE) purchased Provenance Winery and the … [Read more...]
Joel Gott Wines
Joel Gott Wines. Our first introduction to Joel Gott Wines was in the early 2000s when we were running an Internet Service Provider and offered a service back then known as co-location (the precursor of what is now cloud based storage). One of our partners used our facility to host several of his servers, one of which used to host the Gott Wines website and … [Read more...]
Fiadh Ruadh
Fiadh Ruadh pronounced as, fay-ah roo-ah, is a micro Napa Valley based brand focusing on Cabernet Sauvignon founded by winemaker and MW Nova Cadamatre. 2023 was her 20th harvest; her journey through the world of wine has been one filled with curiosity and a desire to learn. She began her winemaking career in Pennsylvania in 2003. She moved to New York to … [Read more...]
BYDAND Wines
Bydand Wines. The inaugural vintage of BYDAND was in 2014, founded by winemaker Colin Gordon. The winemaking is overseen by three individuals: Gordon, Tim Beranek and Adam Holt. The brand started out in Sonoma County focusing on Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. In 2018 the Gordon family purchased a 20 acre site in Coombsville which was already planted to grapes. … [Read more...]
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