Tasting in the Wine Barn is working out! We hope that if you have not yet visited us at “home”, you will soon. Bring a picnic. Plan on spending a couple of hours tasting the wines, petting the horses and dogs (we have a new pup named Mike!), and for you car guys - inhaling Corvette and Nova aromas. Just call us. We’ll open the gate.
If you can’t make it out to the winery and find yourself in Santa Rosa on the historic Railroad Square, you can find our wines at Cellars of Sonoma. Cellars is a wine bar right in the middle of the very flavorful and historic area just west of the highway. Cellars features wines of only 8 small family owned wineries. There is live music most nights, and wonderful food pairings available too!
Most wineries have a bottling line with automated stainless steel equipment, or they have a truck show up housing that line. We don’t have either. We have friends. For us this time it was - eat your Wheaties, roll up your sleeves, take an Aleve or two, and have a damn good time bottling the wine you take home. 40 or so local wine club members made short work of bottling, and enjoying, the new Malbec. Our favorite and talented Kevin Brennan (played with Van Morrison in Ireland) blew our minds once again, this time with his acoustic guitar, and friend Trevor on an antique stand-up bass. What a day! Amazing music, picnic, friends and wine! --and we got all of the Malbec bottled!
A Gold Medal and an award of 94 points in the East Meets West International Wine Competition is nothing to sneeze at considering the size and scope of the International competition, but sneeze they did and awarded our 2018 Orchard Station Sauvignon Blanc just that! Wines from 27 countries were represented and competing. Judges are internationally renowned and respected experts whose mission is to provide a quality assessment of wine and spirits. We’ll own that assessment and cover that sneeze with a well sanitized hankie!
