Livermore Valley

With the sale of Schrader Cellars, another iconic Napa winery gets swallowed up. Could Livermore Valley be the last bastion of family ownership?

With our unrelenting passion for quality, we remain one of Livermore’s smallest wineries. But not for the reason you might think….

More than just a color bias – there is a bias towards rating some wine varieties higher than others, regardless of quality. But, does it matter? I argue that it does.

It takes more than skill and fresh ingredients to make great wine – it also takes time. Read what we are doing to put ‘time’ back into our wines.

The 2016 Grape Crush Report has been released, and there are a few surprises in it. Read our take on this year’s report, and what we think it might portend for Livermore Valley’s future.

Each of our wines has a story, and Zinfandel is no exception. It is the story of a remarkable love affair born 135 years ago….

Only a few years before Robert Parker, wines worth writing about were worth writing well about. We can read Salvador Dali describing a Burgundy as being “draped in all the fires,” or A.J. Liebling describing a Tavel rose as “enthusiasm held under restraint.” Could it be that this earlier era of wine criticism provides a better understanding of the wine in your glass? Let’s journey through 2500 years of wine criticism.

Let’s throw away the advice, and concentrate on what’s important this Thanksgiving – sharing a meal among friends and family, giving thanks for what we have, and remembering those who are no longer among us.

Exploring yet another chapter in Livermore’s past – prohibition, the thirteen years of darkness.