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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. These grapes are usually the first Red Grape to come into the winery and are usually very, VERY SWEET - 27.0 Brix - it makes gorgeous wine!! Our 2018 Zinfandel has bright cranberry, lifesaver candy, ripe black cherry, and is a delightful mouthful of candied fruit! These luscious 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
Silver - 2024 OC Fair Commercial Wine Competition
We use ancient winemaking techniques to make this lovely wine. It is dense, rich, complex and fully extracted. The grapes are crushed to tank, and then we use automatic punch down tools to gently mix and submerge the grape "cap" in the wine during fermentation. The result is all the fruit, flavor, color and richness that you are accustomed to and no harsh tannin. This wine is a joy to make, and has loads of blackberry, chocolate, and buttery pie-crust to compliment a big, blockbuster mouth full of fruity goodness. Only 168 cases (2,000 bottles) made. Try this wine, you will love it!! Nancy
Awards & Accolades
Silver - 2024 OC Fair Commercial Wine Competition
The last 25 cases from our wine Library will set your taste buds alive!! 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 500 cases made of this lovely wine.
Awards & Accolades
Bronze - 2022 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition
Step One: Bleed off the low alcohol, low color juice at the press. Step Two: Take remaining grapes and skins and ferment to dryness, Step Three: Barrel down for 9 months after fermentation. Step four: Drink with a friend! We used these grapes to make our rose and then the balance of the skins were fermented . The resulting zinfandel wine is super concentrated, and deliciously rich. Spicy berry pie flavors and dark chocolate on smooth, velvety tannins. - Nancy
Awards & Accolades
Silver – San Diego Int'l Wine Competition 2019
Silver – San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition 2019
Silver - Sonoma County Harvest Fair 2018
This vineyards is so tiny! It only ever produces about 100 cases of wine. We love our growers, they are a local family of Nick Ponzo and I used to make wine from his father's vineyards in Ukiah 30 years ago (but whose counting)! Nick works next door to the winery and comes by to let me know when the grapes are getting ready for picking. Nick, his wife and children pick all the grapes themselves - now that is a labor of love!! These vines are all about 40 years old and don't look very impressive, but you will agree, that the wine we make is incredible!! It is rich, dense, dark and complex. This vineyard is located about 3 miles south of Healdsburg, just east of HWY101 near Milk Barn Road. The grapes love the cool foggy nights and the hot, warm days. Only 112 cases made, and it will go fast - so make sure to order a bottle today - you will love this wine!! ~~ Nancy
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 - 2024 OC Fair Commercial Wine Competition
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 185 cases made of this lovely wine.
Awards & Accolades
Silver - 2024 OC Fair Commercial Wine Competition
Gorgeous Cabernet Sauvignon Alexander Valley - dazzle your tongue, and satisfy the most discerning pallet.
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 500 cases made of this lovely wine.
Awards & Accolades
Bronze - 2022 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition
Just like her name, our little bumblebee. will make your heart flutter! Aromas and flavors of licorice, anise, blackberry pie, cola, vanilla, cotton candy, and black cherry. Ooh, La La!
Our little Bumblebee Vineyard is tucked away in a small canyon just 0.5 miles past Dry Creek Exit on HWY101 in Healdsburg. It is owned by a brother and sister and father - and the sister is the farmer here. The vineyard shares footing in an Oakwood and Douglas fir forest. The soils are predominately named "Red Vine Soil," by the USGS (United States Geological Service) and it is perfect for growing red grapes. I love hiking through this vineyard, listening to the Bluejays scolding me for entering their territory. Give our little Bumble Bee a taste - you love this wine! Only 300 cases made.
Not entered in any competitions.
This wine, “Los Amigos,” - means “the friends.” The wine, like its name, is very inviting and lovely to enjoy. The vineyard is small, looks unkempt, and grows right next to the freeway on the east side of the road. It’s an older vineyard and one of the best I have ever worked with. Zinfandel vines are funny - they look tired and worn out, and the fruit is better the uglier the vines look! LOL. We have just taken home GOLD, DOUBLE GOLD, AND 3 Silver medals on this wine and expect to receive gold soon! Enjoy a glass with a friend... ~ Nancy
ACCOLADES
PLATINUM / 95 Points - Critic’s Challenge ’21
GOLD - 2022 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition
GOLD / 94 Points - Sunset Wine Competition ’21
Silver – San Diego Int'l Wine Competition 2019
Silver – San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition 2019
Silver - Sonoma County Harvest Fair 2018
Silver - 2021 International Women’s Wine Competition
Step One: Bleed off the low alcohol, low color juice at the press. Step Two: Take remaining grapes and skins and ferment to dryness, Step Three: Barrel down for 9 months after fermentation. Step four: Drink with a friend! We used these grapes to make our rose and then the balance of the skins were fermented . The resulting zinfandel wine is super concentrated, and deliciously rich.Spicey berry pie flavors and dark chocolate on smooth, velvety tannis. - Nancy
Awards & Accolades
Silver – San Diego Int'l Wine Competition 2019
Silver – San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition 2019
Silver - Sonoma County Harvest Fair 2018
Our little Ponytails yield mighty flavors of concentrated blackberry, ripe fig, high-toned cherry, white pepper, and violets, all on a dreamy bed of vanilla crème and mocha pillows. It is grown North of the town of Healdsburg just a heartbeat from the Healdsburg Airport. The vines are small and struggle to grow in soil rich in gravel and hilly conditions. We let this vintage hang well into the first week of harvest - but a blast of hot air - from a heatwave -brought us to our knees and we picked these. This wine is rich in white pepper, violets, bright blackberry, and dark chocolate on the finish. Only 75 cases made and it may come down to first-come-first-serve for this beautiful wine. With 16.5% alcohol - this wine is certainly not shy but well balanced and lovely! Took GOLD at the 2020 SAN FRANCISCO WINE COMPETITION. More will certainly follow. Thank you to our growers Laurie and Robert Pouseman at the Pony Ranch in Healdsburg! Sante! Nancy
