Napa, CA
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 Ink
Grade Vineyard is located northeast of
the town of St. Helena in the Howell Mountain AVA. It is one of the
sources for
Cabnert Sauvignon for our Napa Valley Meritage Adagio.
The Howell Mountain AVA is characterized by hillside vineyards at an elevation ranging from 1,600 feet to 2,200 feet just above the fog level. Thanks to the elevation and the lack of fog, the temperatures are cooler during the day and warmer at night than in the valley floor, allowing grapes like Cabernet Sauvignon to fully ripen every year and produce wines that are concentrated and structured. Ink Grade is a beautifully terraced 200-acre vineyard of mountainous terrain high above the valley floor. Planted in 1990, the vineyard provides fruits to a few premium Napa wineries including Behrens & Hitchcock. |
Andy Beckstoffer's
famous
ToKalon Vineyard
near Oakville in the Napa Valley,
is the source for
our Napa Valley Reserve Cabernet
Sauvignon.
Beckstoffer"s ToKalon Vineyard is located across Highway 29 from Mondavi-Rothchild's Opus One in Oakville. Purchased by Beckstoffer Vineyards in 1993, the 89-acre parcel was part of the original 359-acre ToKalon vineyard first planted by Hamilton Crabb in 1868. In the 1880s, the wines of Crabb ranked among Napa Valley¹s top vintages. To Kalon has continued to produce some of the Napa Valley's most sought-after wines every decade since. Today, Mondavi owns 250 acres of ToKalon and U.C. Davis, the remaining 20 acres. Planted with multiple clones of Cabernet Sauvignon, Petit Verdot, Merlot, and Cabernet Franc with modern trellising and closer vine spacing, the vineyard produces several luxury vineyard designated wines. These wines include SCHRADER CELLARS PAUL HOBBS, ATALON and wines from Karl Lawrence, Juslyn, Oakford, Merryvale, Behrens & Hitchcock, Cain, Provenance, Cardinale, Etude, and others.
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 Andy
Beckstoffer's Dr. Crane Vineyard, St.
Helena, Napa Valley
California is
one of the sources for our Napa Valley Meritage, Adagio.
The DR. CRANE VINEYARD was originally planted by Napa pioneer Dr. George Beldon Crane in 1858. During the 1920’s the Chinatown of the City of St. Helena was located on the site. This historic vineyard property is located west of Route 29 in the City of St. Helena. The gravelly loam soils have been replanted (1998) to multiple clones of Cabernet Sauvignon, Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc. Luxury premium vineyard designated wines from this vinyard are being made by Paul Hobbs, Behrens and Hitchcock and others. |
 Lake Cynthia Vineyards, Napa
Valley, California, owned by Kitchak Cellars, is the source for Scherzo,
our Rose' of Cabernet. It is also one of the
sources for both Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon for our Napa
Valley Cabernet and Merlot Meritage, Adagio. The
Lake Cynthia Vineyard’s microclimate features foggy mornings,
warm days and cool bay breezes in the late afternoon. The soils consist of moderately to well
drained
soils on old alluvial fans which is
excellent for
extraordinary Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot grapes.
Because
of our location at the southern end of the valley, our temperatures are
often 10 degrees cooler than the temperatures just a few miles north.
In general, this is caused by a regular late afternoon breeze blowing
up the valley from the San Pablo Bay and San Francisco which often
brings the evening fog. Being on the east side of the
valley, we also receive more hours of afternoon solar light than
the
vineyards on the valley floor or on the west side of the valley.
The result is an excellent balance of a large amount of light without
too much heat; less respiration of grape acids due to the cooler
temperatures and greater ripening due to both longer hours of sunlight
and longer "hang-time" prior to picking in the fall.
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 Rich and Sara Lee Kunde's Saralee's Vineyard in the Russian River Valley, is the source for our Ermitage style white wine Vivace' which is made from Marsanne and Roussanne grapes with a small amount of Chardonnay grapes.
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