New to Downtown Tasting

We are so excited to be joining the already great list of downtown wineries. We are now pouring our wines in the Meritage Wine Bar at 810 11st St right next to the park. Our vineyard is a labor of love and we truly believe that great, premium wines start on the vine. In 1999, we planted 20 acres of Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Merlot and Pinot Noir with the intention of selling premium grapes and, eventually, bottling estate wines. But, we wanted to work and tend to the vineyard first until we thought the grapes and the juice it produced was of the highest standard and quality. We consciously decided on growing premium grapes on low yield vines, 1.5 to 2.5 Tons/acre to allow for maximal air flow and light exposure with no two clusters touching. This practice would allow longer hang time and all the benefits of our world class terroir. A normal or more standard crop load of 5 to 6 Tons/acre would ripen, but the grape quality is vastly inferior to the 2 Ton/acre grapes. Our decision has met with great success as our grapes have sold and been used in premium vintages by some of the
top brands in the industry like Justin, Wild Horse, Byington, J. Lohr and Tobin James. We bottled our first estate wines in 2009 (2006 vintage) with great success and we just had our 2007 vintage of our Merlot featured in Chef magazine as being one of the top ten Merlot's in California.

New to Downtown Tasting

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