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- From Vine to Wine -
Cooperage
Grape Varietals

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Bartholomew Park
Castle Vineyards
Charles Creek Winery
Cline Cellars
Corison Winery
Enoteca
Ernie's Tin Bar
Gallo Family Vineyards
Gloria Ferrer
Landmark Vineyards
Loxton Cellars

Ernie's Tin Bar To cleanse the palate between wines, tasting rooms often offer taste-bud-neutralizing wafers and tap water. Here’s a better idea: a cold one pulled at Ernie’s Tin Bar, the best kept secret in Sonoma....Read More	Enoteca Enoteca. The name sounds like some lost civilization, a utopia swallowed whole by long-gone gods, echoing faintly in the corridors of our collective unconscious. Like the Atlanteans who survived the....Read More	Corison Winery In the face of the post-Sideways Pinot consciousness creeping over palates, like an umlaut on naïf, winemaker Cathy Corison proudly describes herself as a “Cabernet chauvinist.” It’s refreshing to hear a...Read More

Cooperage A wine barrel is made up of stave which have been shaped into a bulging cylinder, and flat head or ends. The stave are held in place by metal hoops, usually galvanized on wine barrels or steel on...Read More	Grape Varietals The following overview of grapes commonly used in wine making is not meant to be comprehensive. Rather, it is to provide you, the reader with a brief yet informative look at the major grape varieties...Read More	Bartholomew Park The kid sister of wine juggernaut Gundlach Bundschu, stately Bartholomew Park Winery is nestled in the Sonoma hills on the site of a former women’s prison — an odd but scenic locale for something...Read More