Sonoma County Barrel Auction


These Sonoma County Barrel Auction lots were auctioned off on May 3, 2024. Stay tuned for next year's 2025 SoCoBA lots!



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Lot #3 Benziger Family Winery

“Mother Earth” is a distinctive first bottling from a single block of organically-farmed Old Wente Clone Chardonnay, sourced from the renowned Sangiacomo Vineyard. At Benziger, the Chardonnay grape isn't just a grape, it's a tiny, round…
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Lot #8 ACTA Wine

ACTA Wine's core winemaking philosophy uses blending as a central tool, often only needing just touches of a secondary vineyard, varietal or cooperage to create a more compelling wine. However, from time to time the winemaking team comes across…
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Lot #33 Gloria Ferrer

“Brut Nature Rosé” has been crafted specifically for the Sonoma County Barrel Auction and has no added sugar (the added "nature" in the name indicates no sugar or dosage added), allowing the purity of the fruit to shine through. The Pinot…
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Lot #45 Mauritson Wines

The “1868” barrel auction lot pays homage to the Mauritson family history in the Rockpile region, as the family has farmed this property contiguously since they homesteaded it in 1868. Mauritson Wines has never before bottled a Cabernet…
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Lot #55 Sojourn Cellars

Let's get down to the "bare" facts... Desnudo Vineyard (which translates into 'nude' in Spanish) is located on the southern end of the Mayacamas Mountains, and in the 1940s it was a nudist colony known as Sun-o-ma. The nudist ranch, in its heyday,…
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Lot #58 The Donum Estate

Selected from a block of Swan-clone Pinot Noir that used an experimental form of fungal control, in which no toxins are used to control mildew and botrytis, the vines were sprayed with beneficial fungi that outcompete the damaging mildew and…
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Lot #63 Silver Oak

In the world of fine wines, true gems are fleeting like a captured, single moment in time. “Legacy” is an unparalleled embodiment of such rarity—a 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon from esteemed terroir of the Alexander Valley. A testament to the…