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Our last stop of the day was certainly one of the most interesting. The Teldeschi’s are an old grape growing family with a long history in the area. Frank is the fourth generation of the family and the one who started the winery. He has some unique ideas about producing wines.
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This winery was founded by two transplanted midwesterners. We were greeted at the door by Riley, the winery dog, who while at first showed great interest in us, eventually decided that we were boring.
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Papapietro Perry is located in what can only be described as an industrial park for wineries. Six small wineries have their production facilities clustered together. With land at a premium in Dry Creek Valley, this makes sense, and doesn’t detract from the wine…
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In 2000 Steve Zichichi, a doctor from New Orleans and his wife purchased the vineyard and built the winery. The vineyard is planted in Zinfandel and Petite Sirah with the vines between 40 and 80 years old…
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The Prestons are proponents of organic farming and are as involved in the making of olive oil and vinegar as they are their wines. The wines themselves are mostly Rhone varieties and Zinfandel.
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David Coffaro has a unique perspective on winemaking that has earned the respect of his peers. He definitely does things his way. Like the use of screw cap bottles. Or blending grapes you’ve hardly ever heard of. Or selling most of his wine as futures. Or making a wine from the bottom of every barrel. Or making wines that are affordable.
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Sbragia is a family owned winery founded by a long time winemaker at Beringers. It is located at the far northern end of Dry Creek Valley.
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Pedroncelli is one of a number of multi-generational family wineries having been founded in 1927. The winery consists of a collection of rustic farm buildings a few miles off Dry Creek Road. We had visited the winery on one of our previous trips about ten years ago and found not much has changed…
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Day One, Winery #7: It was getting a bit late in the day by the time we made it to Kunde Estate Winery. (We found out that Kunde rhymes with Sunday. Who knew?) The grounds of this winery are very picturesque (which explains why there were so many pictures that I took there). I am [...]
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Day One, Winery #5: By the time we hit Kenwood, our main focus was on lunch, not wine. We called ahead to find out if they had food that could be purchased at the winery, and we were told that they had some sausage and crackers. This worked for us, and so we left Ravenswood [...]
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Day One, Winery #4: You might be able to guess from the above images snagged off of the Ravenswood website that this is absolutely our type of wine. We drink Ravenswood often. They sell a terrific Zin for around $10 a bottle, and it is a staple in our cellar. We’ve also enjoyed their Merlot, [...]
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Day One, Winery #3: Sebastiani is one of those solid, standby wine producers which we turn to often when in a pinch. We honed in on their limited production, Reserve wines. Solid and dependable, we will be more willing to order these wines in restaurants more often when seeking out a wine to go with our [...]
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Day One, Winery #2: I’ll preface this by saying that we love Cline Cellars wines. Reasonably priced, you can find many of them anywhere. We are particularly fond of the deep, rich “Ancient Vine” varieties we’ve found locally – we’ve found the Zinfandel, Carignane and Mourvedre Ancient Vines here at our local liquor store for [...]
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Day One, Winery #1: Matanzas Creek winery has traditionally produced one of our favorite Merlots. We were pretty excited to find out that this winery was very near our hotel, and so we planned on making this the first stop of our winery tour, on the very first day.
We were so eager, in fact, that we [...]
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