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In Our Cellar

While we believe the finest wines are "made in the vineyard" through proper sustainable and organic farming activities, our cellar techniques are critical to ensure the diligence exercised in our vineyards does not go to waste.

To ensure the finest quality, we hand-harvest and sort the grapes in the vineyard to cull inferior bunches. When our grapes arrive at the winery they are carefully weighed and sorted by hand (again) before they enter the destemmer/crusher - a machine which crushes the grape bunches and removes & separates the stems from our tiny, flavor-packed grapes.

After a few more days the still fermenting "must" is now richly colored and very aromatic. After careful evaluation we gently press it and release the wine into our hand-hewn small French oak barrels for more than a year of ageing.

Visit our trade and marketings section to download tasting notes and images.

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Sue looks happy with the Textbook Cabernet!
Good farming means GREAT color.
Our French oak barrels are expensive – more than $1000 each – but impart such exotic aromas and texture, we insist on the best.
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