The Livermore Valley AVA is located within Alameda County in the San Francisco Bay region of California’s Central Coast. It’s one of the oldest regions, with a grape-growing history that dates back to the 1700s, beginning with missionaries planting grapes for ceremonial wines and expanding with the pioneer settlements into the 19th century. The region is named for Robert Livermore, who founded the first commercial vineyard in the 1840s. The successful vineyard started by James Concannon in 1883 has been named a historical landmark. By 1889, wines from Livermore Valley were winning gold at the Paris Exposition. It’s also the region that is credited with the first varietal labellings of Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc and Petite Syrah and it is thought that a large percentage of Chardonnay vines grown today are descendants of Livermore Valley vines.
Like Zinfandel, Petite Sirah is primarily a California wine: the Golden State’s long, sunny growing seasons are necessary to ripen Petite Sirah’s substantial tannins and reveal its rich blackberry flavors. The wine’s structure, fruit and inky color mak...
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“King of the Red Wine Grapes.” The colonizer of the vineyards, pushing native wine grapes into its shadows. The Caber...
The Occitanian word “merlot” translates to “young blackbird.” An accurate description for this popular, early-budding...
The irony here is that Syrah’s origins could give Carmen Sandiego a run for her international wallet. Syrah’s deepest...
British wine writer and critic, Jancis Robinson, once noted that throughout the 80’s and 90’s in the United States, C...
Parentage of the grape: Crljenak to Austria to America. In the 1970s, claims surfaced that the Italian Primitivo is l...
30 years ago Bob and Gloria Retzlaff Taylor planted, on their 14 acre parcel, Cabernet Sauvignon,...
We are very proud of our wines and even prouder of the passionate team of wine lovers who make an...
Mitchell Katz Winery is an innovative Livermore Valley winery dedicated exclusively to producing ...
Wood Family Vineyards is a family run winery located in the eastern foothills of Livermore Valley...
McGrail Vineyards is a family owned winery specializing in Cabernet Sauvignon. On the hilltop of ...
We produce a wide range of wines, 7 or 8 white wines and about 12 red wines including some less w...
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Livermore on Snooth
August 2012
This classic red wine is from an under the radar winery. It is a Port-like wine of huge stature--dark/inky, complex with a slight tar character, spice, plum and intense berry. Delicious! The same quality as a top end vintage Port from Portugal. My rating-- 96 Read More
August 2012
Lovely nose shows gentle layers of blackberries, strawberry and brambly spice. Smooth and a touch sweet in the mouth, this delivers a nicely vanilla-framed core of rather black cherry fruit, with accent notes of wood spice and pepper adding complexity. Theres a little meatiness to the black spice on the back end, along with a hint of some stemmy... Read More
August 2012
With aromas of old wood and something vaguely dirty here, this takes a while to pull itself together. Air does reveal some spicy carob notes and vaguely red currant like fruit. Very smooth on entry and pretty well balanced, this actually has a lovely mouth feel, fairly full but bright and lively. The flavors tend towards subtle with a bit of sou... Read More
July 2012
nice nose of dark fruit....big wine with minimal tannins and a fruity finish....decent finish Read More
July 2012
Ripe and fleshy with great bramble fruits with flavors of red and black berries, hints of licorice, spice and mineral. It's leaning more toward jammy with super ripe fruit, but balanced well with the other influences which keep it from going too far to being a fruit bomb. Nice wine. Beautifully concentrated fruit.88 pts.7/9/12 Read More
June 2012
Honeyed melon, tropical fruit, lychee. Great, elegant mouthfeel. Tasty, with good balance. 91 pts.5/26/12 Read More
June 2012
Upon opening i got hints of plums and violets. Overall the wine was very smooth and had notes of plum, raspberry's, cherry's and some smokey oak hints. I liked it enough but i was actually expecting more from this one so i would probably buy this again but only if i couldn't find something i liked better. Read More
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