Wines
Current Releases
2009 A. RAFANELLI ZINFANDEL
DRY CREEK VALLEY
Tasting Notes: With ripe jammy and briary fruit aromatically arousing your senses, and backgrounds of caramelly oak dancing on your palate, this Zin celebrates our signature style. Always pleasing this is a wine that is youthful and will not disappoint after a couple of more years in the cellar.
Harvest Dates: September 4th – October 4th
Bottling Date: March 2011
Release Date: May 2011
Case Production: 6,700
2008 CABERNET SAUVIGNON
DRY CREEK VALLEY
Tasting Notes: Luscious black cherry fruit and oak sweetened cassis implode on your palate. As our vineyard manger said, “just pull the cork and enjoy!” This is our classic Cabernet full of flavor and perfectly finessed. But don’t drink it all now, because it is only going to get better with time.
Harvest Date: September 15th – 30th
Bottling Date: July 2010
Release Date: May 2011
Production: 3,300 Cases
2008 Merlot
DRY CREEK VALLEY
Tasting Notes: Expressing a Bordeaux style, this merlot is full of richness and refinement. The black and red cherry fruit with oak elaboration melds together to give a memorable impression on your palate with slight undertones of cocoa and tobacco. We challenge you to lay this Merlot down for awhile and see just how beautifully it matures.
Harvest Date: September 10th – 20th
Bottling Date: July 2010
Release Date: May 2011
Case Production: 500 Cases
2006 TERRACE SELECT
DRY CREEK VALLEY
Tasting Notes: Hand selected each year from the terraced hillside vineyard just south of the winery. The grapes are hand picked and carefully sorted, then fermented 21 days in a small open top tank with manual punch downs every five hours. After fermentation they are pressed lightly into new French oak barrels.
This limited reserve wine showcases our grape growing style, with a focused and riveting personality keyed on deep compelling and wonderfully concentrated black currant fruit. This fruit is framed with complementary oak and accented with touches of cocoa and coffee. The firm and tailored structural tannins tell you it should be laid away for at least a decade, although this wine wouldn’t surprise us if it is alive and going strong after two decades.
Harvest Date: October 20th
Bottling Date: July 2009
Release Date: May 2011
Production: 250 Cases