Nestled amongst the hills of the glorious Test Valley, in the heart of the Hampshire countryside, lies Black Chalk. Created in 2015 by current CEO and winemaker, Jacob Leady sought out fruit from local Hampshire vineyards to make small batch,...
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Jim Binns is a family man who makes incredible Rhone valley inspired wines from some of the best vineyards in Santa Barabra County and San Luis Obispo. Andremily is named after his son and daughter, Andrew and Emily. The ladder on the logo is an...
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Component Wine Company was started in 2014 by Michael Kennedy and his wife Rachel with the goal of making 100% single variety wines from single vineyards in Napa Valley, Sonoma, Bordeaux & Provence. Michael was formerly the Head Sommelier at Blue by...
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Founded in 2018 by Michael Kennedy with one goal: to be a family of wineries with a common thread of small production, site-specific, terroir driven wines from California, Oregon, Washington, Italy & France. Following the creation of the Component...
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Marc Gagnon left his job as director of winemaking at Bryant Family Vineyards in 2018. During a dinner at an Italian restaurant in Napa, Michael asked Marc what was next? A short time later, Marc and Michael realized that they wanted to work...
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Founded by a successful Finnish sea Captain, Gustave Niebaum, in the 1880’s, Inglenook Estate in Rutherford California was once the most highly regarded of the earliest, great Napa Valley estate wineries. Over the years the estate passed through...
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Why Matchbook? As a farm kid growing up in the late 1950´s and early 1960´s John Giguiere was a confirmed pyromaniac starting various things on fire such as his father´s wheat field. At one point, fearing total ruin from his kids burning him out...
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McManis Family Vineyards is a grower and vintner of premium varietal wine grapes located in the Northern Interior of California. The company was founded in 1990 by Ron and Jamie McManis - fourth generation family farmers. The McManis family has been...
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“Both the Coppola and the Pennino families were acclaimed musicians, and as we grew up there was always this banter back-and-forth about which side was more talented. When I started the wine company, it began as ‘The Family Coppola’. Once my...
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Diamond Creek is a true California legend: rare (only 1,500 total cases of three 'regular' bottlings, with tiny additional quantities from the miniscule Lake vineyard in favorable vintages), expensive, and talked or written about much more often...
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Neal Family Cab is a Liquid Art classic for many reasons. It is a top quality Napa Cab with an impeccable pedigree produced by one of the valley's great winegrowing families but, because the family is not predisposed to pandering to journalists, it...
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In the late 1960’s, Dick and Nancy Ponzi moved their young family to Oregon to pursue a dream of producing world-class Pinot noir. After many research trips to Burgundy and an extensive search for the ideal location, they purchased 20 acres on a...
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Sokol Blosser is one of the pioneering estates of the Oregon state wine industry. In 1971 when Bill Blosser and Susan Sokol Blosser began converting an old prune orchard into a vineyard they became one of five bonded wineries in the region. In the...
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Saxum is one of the hottest wineries in Paso Robles, which is saying something, since Paso is pretty well as hot as it gets in California these days. Of course Paso is 'hot' by virtue of being cool, and the coolest part of Paso Robles is the...
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At Walter Hansel Winery, the emphasis is on low yields (which range from 1.5 to 2.7 tons/acre), precise viticulture and non-interventionist winemaking. Stephen Hansel (Walter's son) exercises strict control in the vineyards, producing beautiful -...
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Wines that speak to the heart and the mind. Wines that are ripe and flavorful, but also gracefully balanced. Wines that make you appreciate all that is lovely.
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Duncan Arnot Meyers grew up around wine. His father's best friend was Bernard Portet of Clos du Val, and much of Duncan's youth was spent in Napa Valley. He was mentored by John Kongsgaard and worked side by side with Pax Malhe, Northern...
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A family-owned business, L'Ecole Nº 41 was founded by Jean and Baker Ferguson. Today, the winery is owned and operated by their daughter and son-in-law, Megan and Martin Clubb. Built in 1915, the schoolhouse is located in historic Frenchtown, a...
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The Coulon family, owners of Domaine de Beaurenard in Châteauneuf-du-Pape, has been growing vines for centuries. For more than 10 years, the entire vineyard has been farmed following biodynamic principles (Demeter certified). Since 2017 the Coulon...
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