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We love to make a dry—and we mean seriously dry—Riesling from these 30 year old vines, growing in the rocky, chalky soil of the McFadden Farm in Potter Valley. With its luscious texture, great balance of fruit and acidity, and superb minerality, this is a wine both for short term drinking as well as for aging in your cellar.
Nothing says Spring or Summer to us as much as a nice, crisp, dry rosé on a bright sunny day. It just elevates your mood to pop the cork and have that beautifully colored wine splash into a glass, emitting all those aromas of strawberry, wild cherry, spice, etc. It’s an absolutely perfect way to start out a meal or a great wine to have with lighter fare—let’s say a salad and some bread and cheese.
We wanted to make a lighter-styled, lush, mouthfilling Grenache, and after making the wine we felt we had the majority of the flavors we wanted. By keeping the wine in large barrels we were able to increase contact with the yeast, giving the wine it’s combination of lovely Grenache fruit and more toasty, earthy flavors. It’s an ideal wine for a hot spring or summer day cooking at the barbeque.
HistoryThis is the twelfth vintage that we’ve made wine from these great old vines grown in one of the best red...
Simply put, this is one of the most lovely, velvety old-vine zinfandels we’ve made from this vineyard in many years—although the harvest was so tiny that it produced only 202 cases of wine. We particularly love this 2008 vintage; there is a softness and lushness to the wine that is absolutely thrilling.
Small packages can contain huge surprises, as our Late Harvest Zinfandel exemplifies. This intense wine—made from grapes grown on Bella Winery’s Lily Hill vineyard in northern Dry Creek Valley—is both complex and balanced, and is a superb example of how a sweet desert wine can be made to be elegant and balanced.
