Today only… Enter the coupon code 1300902170 when checking out of our online store for an additional 30% off all of our 2004 and 2005 vintage wines in stock. Do you remember your login and password?

This offer is only good for orders placed before midnight pacific on Friday 5/6/11.  Sorry, no extensions.

in his own non-traditional way.

Match Vineyards will be there too!  We’ll be sampling and auctioning off 10 cases of 2009 Butterdragon Hill at the Auction Napa Valley Barrel Auction on June 3rd.

A documentary made by Joe Wagner (Caymus), Joel Gott (Joel Gott Wines), and Dave Phinney (Orin Swift) about making a special wine blend to benefit their kids’ school.  The documentary is fake.

I had a chance to do a side-by-side tasting comparison of these two wines this past week.

The 2008 Butterdragon is fairly closed right now and needs hours of air to start to show its stuff.  I recorked a bottle and a couple of days later it was much more expressive.  The ’08 vintage, in my opinion, is going to display more depth than the ’07, but it is going to take some time.  My recommendation right now is to hold your 2008 Butterdragons for a few years.  Surprisingly for this vineyard, the 2007 Baconbrook was more open for business.  After just an hour of air, it’s really singing with a great, complex finish.  While cellar age is still the watchword with Baconbrook, you can enjoy the 2007 now with a bit of advance planning.

I’m going to try to regularly update drinkability reports in this Vintner’s Journal.

That’s right… we’ve finally released the 2008 Butterdragon Cab. And with it, comes the debut of our online store. During this release period, we’re donating $1 from every bottle sold to Japanese earthquake/tsunami relief efforts.

If you have not received your email release letter, it means we either don’t have a working email address on file OR you never signed up for our mailing list.  Either way, that can be fixed.

One Wednesday, January 19, 2011 we bottled approximately 150 cases of our ’08 Baconbrook Cabernet.  This wine will be released in the Fall.  Here’s the video.  Sorry for some of the sound quality.  It’s loud on those bottling trucks.

Tasting our 2007 vintage wines.