Lot #11 Joseph Swan Vineyards, Arista Winery
Mark McWilliams of Arista Winery approached his friend Rod Berglund of Joseph Swan Vineyards and explained that the Pinot Noir wines produced by their respective vineyards have never been made by anyone than their two estate wineries. Arista…
Lot #36 Laurel Glen Vineyard
The wine is from a single block of Laurel Glen’s organically farmed estate vineyard named Block 1. The winery has never bottled wines from individual blocks, and so this is truly a “Never Before, Never Again” selection. Block 1 was the…
Lot #52 Rodney Strong Vineyards
“Knights Delight” highlights fruit for this very special barrel lot coming from the Knights Valley American Viticultural Area. The 2022 vintage in Sonoma County was superb for Bordeaux varietals. After early summer heatwaves that led to…
Lot #57 Martin Ray Vineyards & Winery
This special bottling of their Tower Block has as much historical significance for California winemaking as it does to the continuance of the Martin Ray winemaking philosophy. Winemaker Lindsey Haughton has chosen this barrel as an example of…
Lot #59 Thompson 31Fifty Wines
This “3 Block Chardonnay” is a one-of-a-kind blend and hails from three single vineyard sources: Vineyard Block 1 from the Thompson 31Fifty Sister Sophie's Estate, planted to a Montrachet clone; Vineyard Block 2 from a block at the Bacigalupi…