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Domestic Selection: Cabernet Sauvignon, 1989. Sunridge

August 29, 2016

When is a second label not a second label? This selection provides the answer. The exalted Mt. Veeder appellation, where this wine comes from, is home to a constellation of star-quality Napa wineries: The Hess Collection, Mayacamas, Mt. Veeder and Chateau Potelle. Sunridge Cabernet Sauvignon is actually the product of the Chateau Potelle estate winery,… read more »

Import Selection: Cabernet Sauvignon, 1990. San Jose De Santiago

August 29, 2016

The San José de Santiago brand is a brainstorm operation based on the high quality grapes of Chile’s Pacific coast. You have, no doubt, seen and/or enjoyed the excellent fruits that arrive during our winter in North America from Chile. I have been relishing these treats since childhood. The green grocers in my family used… read more »

Import Selection: Shiraz/Cabernet Sauvignon, 1991. Hardys

August 29, 2016

Hardys is Australia’s second largest wine producer. The company dates back to 1953, when Thomas Hardy, just 23 years old, founded Bankside Cellars, three miles from Adelaide in the then “Colony of South Australia”. Exhibiting a pioneering spirit, an excellent head for business and a natural flair for wine making, the energetic young man from… read more »

Domestic Selection: Cabernet Sauvignon, 1989. McDowell

August 26, 2016

In 1970, Richard and Karen Keehn purchased over 500 acres in Mendocino’s McDowell Valley. Although grapes for wine production had been cultivated in this valley and sold to Napa, Sonoma and Mendocino wine makers without interruption since the 1890s, nobody had ever put a winery there. The region boasts low fertility, gravely loam soils, ideal… read more »

Domestic Selection: Cabernet Sauvignon, 1986. Sebastiani

August 26, 2016

Samuele Sebastiani had been born into a peasant family who toiled in the vineyards of Tuscany, Italy. In 1895, he borrowed money for his steerage to California. In 1904, Samuele Sebastiani started what was to become California winemaking history. Today, when you visit the Sebastiani Winery in old town Sonoma, you will be shown the… read more »

Domestic Selection: Cabernet Sauvignon, 1988. Lone Oak

August 25, 2016

In 1974, the Smith horse ranch and the Hook cattle ranch were converted into vineyards. A good 250 acres of vines were planted there, split between Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet Franc. Thus was the Smith and Hook Estate created as a Cabernet Sauvignon “chateau”. Our selection comes from the Lone Oak Estate, a separate… read more »

Import Selection: Cabernet Sauvignon, 1989. Villa Montes

August 23, 2016

What would happen if: a) California’s leading Consulting Oenologist, Andre Tchelistcheff, formed a partnership with; b) the Dean of the School of Economics and Business Administration of a prominent university plus; c) a major Napa Valley vineyard owner and; d) a seasoned wine marketing professional with 20 years experience? They call it Domaine Tchelistcheff. One… read more »

Import Selection: Cabernet Sauvignon, 1988. Los Vascos

August 23, 2016

The Vina Los Vascos winery lies sheltered in its own private viticultural paradise, the 4900 acre Caneten Valley, about 90 miles south of Santiago, in Chile’s climatically-endowed Colchagua region. Don Pedro Gregorio Echenique, a knight of the Order of Santiago, built the winery in 1750. It has stayed in his family ever since. The soil,… read more »

Domestic Selection: Cabernet Sauvignon, 1985. Jekel

August 19, 2016

This month’s domestic selection has to be the bargain of the century! This is Limited Series wine that we can all enjoy. The Jekel Vineyard was originally planted in 1972, the year WOMC was founded, so it is, like us, no new-comer to the industry. Back then winemaker Bill Jekel, with his twin brother, Gus,… read more »

Domestic Selection: Cabernet Sauvignon, 1987. Hawk Crest

August 18, 2016

Amongst the resplendent cabernet jewels in Napa’s crown, few sparkle so pre-eminently as those of Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars. I quote here, one who knows whereof he speaks, Warren Winiarski, winemaker and co-owner of Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars: “Let us take a fresh start by making an assumption….that in every class of product there is… read more »