Santa Cruz Mountains and Santa Clara Valley Wines

Kim Engelhardt and Kathleen Santa Clara County has around 450 acres of white wine grapes planted, with most of them concentrated in a few large vineyards around the Pacheco Pass area. Those ...

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After studying viticulture at Davis, Ron Mosley's first job was to help Tom Mudd set up Cinnabar Vineyards in Saratoga. From clearing the land and planting the vines to making the wine, Ron quic...

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Tammie and Ted Medeiros In 2005 Ted Medeiros and Bill Holt took over the Sycamore Creek winery on Uvas Road in Morgan Hill. The winery had been established in the 1970s but after a promising...

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Jeffrey Fadness has led an interesting life. I'm not going to try to summarize it, he does a way better job than I can . But a couple of years ago he took over the old (and - let's be honest - ...

http://scmwine.blogspot.com/2017/07/la-vie-dansante_20.html

2012 Lake Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon While driving up to Ridge this past weekend I was surprised to see signs indicating that Vidovich Vineyards was open for tasting. I first discovered Vid...

http://scmwine.blogspot.com/2017/06/vidovich-vineyards.html

Library wines in large formats A visit to Ridge is always fun, particularly when it's for the Monte Bello tasting. Ridge hosts three tastings in March, April and May where we get the chance ...

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Ridge finally announces expansion plans in association with the Mid-Peninsula Regional Open Space District. 32 more acres of Monte Bello land to be planted over the next two decades. Details on 4...

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Can America's best coffee grower also be a top winemaker? Marin Artukovich thinks so. He established the Koa Plantation on Hawai'i over 20 years ago and soon established a reputation for quality;...

http://scmwine.blogspot.com/2015/09/mja-vineyards.html

2013 GRENACHE BLANC, BOKISCH VINEYARD An unoaked white wine, made entirely in stainless steel. The nose is floral and creamy with a hint of vanilla; it's balanced and rich with a tannic prickl...

http://scmwine.blogspot.com/2014/10/santa-cruz-mountain-vineyardvino-cruz.html

Former Bargetto winemaker Michael Sones has been crafting interesting wines under his own label for around 10 years, initially focusing primarily on good value Zinfandel and Petite Sirah - two va...

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Stefani at Savannah-Chanelle The history of Savannah-Chanelle goes back to the early days of the California wine boom. Pierre Pourroy emigrated to California from France in 1887 and was join...

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Gene Guglielmo The Santa Clara Valley may well be the state's most under-recognized AVA - Wikipedia's entry on the History of California Wine  doesn't even mention it by name, in spite of o...

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(Note: Please be sure to read the comments to this post - there's more interesting information there, some of which contradicts what I wrote. Dave) There's an article doing the rounds at the mo...

http://scmwine.blogspot.com/2014/08/in-defense-of-two-buck-chuck.html

This looks like an interesting new project. The site is a 10 acre vineyard in La Honda , producing around 600 cases of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. The winemaker is Ehren Jordan, formerly of Turle...

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Web site The Daily Meal has come up with their list of the 101 best wineries in America, and not surprisingly several of them are from the Santa Cruz Mountains. At #54 that have the legendary M...

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Since 2002 Bradley Brown has been producing excellent estate Syrah; intense wines that deserve - nay, demand - cellaring. As the vines have aged and other Rhone varieties have been planted the ...

http://scmwine.blogspot.com/2014/06/2010-big-basin-estate-syrahs.html

Since the sale of the old vineyards off Highway 9 to Mount Eden, George Troquato has been sourcing fruit from all over the state, particularly Paso Robles and Monterey. However he still produce...

http://scmwine.blogspot.com/2014/06/2012-cinnabar-chardonnay-santa-cruz.html

Michael Martella has been making wine in the Santa Cruz Mountains for over 40 years as former head winemaker at Thomas Fogarty, and since 1999 under his own label from purchased fruit. I'll conf...

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The Lester Family Vineyard is located in Corralitos, towards the southern end of the Santa Cruz Mountains AVA, at an elevation of around 500 feet. The vineyard is planted to seven different clon...

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Montebello ridge has long been known as an ideal place to grow Cabernet. From the earliest plantings at the end of the 19th Century to the present day the area has hosted dozens of small winerie...

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In the early 1990s the writer and historian Charles L. Sullivan was comissioned by the Bennion Trust to create an oral history of winemaking in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Over a period of two ye...

http://scmwine.blogspot.com/2014/03/oral-history-of-santa-cruz-mountains.html

I got an email today from a wine retailer thanking me for the blog - he'd used some of the information from a post on Montallegro on his web site. It turns out that he has an allocation of the 2...

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While I don't make New Year Resolutions, I have decided to try and make more of an effort in updating the blog, and the winery wiki. There have been several new wineries that have opened in the ...

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