Ethereal aromatics of wet stone, the palest of pale strawberries and alpine watermelon (whatever that is) … you’ll know it when you taste it. Lifted raspberries balance perfectly with the softly fresh, while crisp texture. Sublime pale color and delicate focus hand-crafted from Napa Valley farm-grown Grenache. Fruit to bottle Rosé at its finest. 93 cases produced. 

Leads with exciting aromatics of white flowers and nectarines, with the perfect fleeting note of minerality. With a poised palate of fresh stone fruit and charming acidity, the wine finishes with crisp precision and focus. 96 cases produced. 

With the 2015 vintage, our winemaker, Peter Heitz, scored a perfect 10 for consistency! Tasting notes from the 2014 vintage, see below, apply to the 2015 vintage as well.   We trust you’ll agree that the wine is absolutely stunning – delicious, fulfilling and most of all intriguing.  53% Petite Sirah, 41% Grenache, 6% Syrah. 277 cases produced.

WINEMAKING NOTES: The estate fruit was handpicked and co-fermented; 10% whole-cluster. Hand punch-downs added elegance while indigenous yeast preserved sense of place. Pressed to barrel for malolactic fermentation and aged in second turn French Oak, the wines were blended just before bottling.

Three Rhône varietals – Grenache, Syrah, and Petite Sirah — are grown in our “Backyard” Estate vineyard and provide a sense of place and passion. To complement our Estate grown field blend we work with McGah Vineyard Grenache in Rutherford, which provides lift and focus along with wonderful texture. Rounding the composition, Petite Sirah from Shypoke Vineyard in Calistoga brings concentration and inky depth. 

The Rutherford Grenache leads the approach providing aromas of boysenberries, red pomegranate, raspberries and restrained white pepper that unify into pure bright fruit and plum blossom. Our Estate grown Grenache, Syrah and Petite Sirah are co-fermented and flood the mid-palate with berry compote and spice box.  Inky Petite Sirah completes the composition with wide blue fruit and flavor density that persists.  The texture and structure accelerates in the finish, softening and lengthening.  47% Petite Sirah, 44% Grenache, 9% Syrah. 342 cases produced.

Twenty-Eight Eighty Reserve is bottled from one select barrel of wine – the very best of the 2016 Backyard harvest. It is ravishing…awash with plummy, berry fruit and anchored by gravelly tones. Family tended Grenache, Petite Sirah, and Syrah commingle in a co-ferment of intriguing possibilities. The vintage brings a random fruitfulness to each variety held within the vineyard; the resulting concept of vintage and place is exalted in a ‘this is happening’ happening. Just 24 cases produced.

WINEMAKING NOTES: The estate fruit was handpicked and co-fermented; 10% whole-cluster. Hand punch-downs added elegance while indigenous yeast preserved sense of place. Pressed to barrel for malolactic fermentation and aged in second turn French Oak. 

Ten years after bottling our first cases of Red Wine, we are thrilled to release our first Cab - 2016 Twenty-Eight Eighty Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. Hand-crafted from 100% Cabernet grapes, the wine is structured, seamless and perfectly integrated.  With dusty blackberry aromatics and flavors of dark plums, cherries & dried tobacco fusing with dark cassis & red berries, this full-bodied red wine is delicious now and will be for years to come. 96 cases produced. 

WINEMAKING NOTES:  Aged in 40% new French oak, 60% seasoned French oak barrels for 20 months. 

Our inaugural vintage of Rutherford Grenache was so well received, we doubled the production to a whopping 96 cases in 2016. With its perfumed red fruit lifting and revealing surprising high tone red berries and spice box, the 2016 Twenty-Eight Eighty Grenache is medium-bodied, supple, pretty and intriguing on the palate.  Mixed berry compote rounds the mid palate with surprising generosity of width giving way to focus and delicacy.  93 cases produced. 

WINEMAKING NOTES: 60% whole cluster fermented and aged in neutral French oak for 18 months, the process is restrained to detail the singularity of site and vintage.