TASTING NOTES
Warm toasty aromas of hazelnut and peach flower give way to a palette that pops with lime and baked apple pie.
WINEMAKING NOTES
Fermented in small, open-top stainless steel tanks with gentle, twice-daily punchdowns over a period of two weeks. The 2019 Flambeaux Sonoma Coast Chardonnay comes from two world-class vineyards owned by the Sangiacomo family, one of Sonoma County’s original, and leading, grape-growing families. Located near the Petaluma Gap, the Roberts Road Vineyard is characterized by cool temperatures and coastal fogs. The block is planted with the Dijon clone 95, a variety ideally suited for even the coolest climates and which adds a sparkling minerality and a green apple component to the blend. The Kiser Vineyard is situated farther inland in southwestern Sonoma and is planted with the Wente clone, a cultivar that contributes bright acidity balanced with the concentrated and weighty stone fruit flavors.
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Sonoma Coast

Winemaker

Ryan Prichard
Ryan Prichard grew up in Berkeley, CA and went to Cornell University where he took a senior elective class on wine appreciation which opened his eyes to the wines of the world. Fast forward years later, Ryan gave up his career in Technology and turned to winemaking full-time. With stints at Williams Selyem, Copain Custom Crush, Medlock Ames, and now the Winemaker at Three Sticks in Sonoma, Ryan crafts some of Sonoma County’s finest wines. He joins the Murray family at Flambeaux with a keen interest in crafting wine that showcases unique terroirs.Ryan was recently awarded the highest wine industry honor by LuxeSF and San Francisco Magazine, the 2020 Rising Star: Winemaker of the Year award.
Winemaker Q&A
Sampl: How does Flambeaux’s rich New Orleans heritage influence your winery in Sonoma?
Ryan: Like in Sonoma County, New Orleans has an innate warm, casual hospitality that comes from the culture, the climate, and its history. There the small pleasures of life are celebrated together – delicious food, great music, and our rich heritage. We welcome our visitors to Flambeaux Wine with the same easy-going hospitality we grew up with.
Sampl: What’s the driving force behind your passion for winemaking?
Ryan: The connection to our small, distinctive estate vineyard high up in the mountains above Dry Creek Valley. The magic and beauty of the place is reflected in the grapes harvested from those vines. That led us to find other exceptional vineyards – like Sangiacomo Vineyards – to showcase the extraordinary wines of Sonoma County.
Sampl: How has your winemaking experience led you to make your 2019 Sonoma Coast Chardonnay?
Ryan: Nicole Murray, one of our partners in Flambeaux Wine, is particularly fond of California Chardonnay, and our Winemaker, Ryan Prichard, is an expert in crafting outstanding Sonoma County Chardonnay. His relationship with the Sangiacomo Family gives him a palette from one of California's greatest vineyards, which he crafts into an elegant, age-worthy Chardonnay.

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Flambeaux
2019 Chardonnay
$7
TASTING NOTES
The wine has a light-catching coppery-tangerine color, with aromas of orange peel, caramel, and vegemite with a savory, mouthwatering, steely finish. Swirling coastal breezes help this wine retain its refreshing natural acidity and exotic savory flavors.
WINEMAKING NOTES
Our unfiltered Pinot Gris ‘Orange Wine’ from Bennett Valley saw an average of 60-hour whole-cluster skin contact prior to pressing, resulting in a beautiful light-catching coppery-tangerine color.
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Bennett Valley

Winemaker

Ryan Kunde
Ryan brings a rich winemaking legacy to DRNK, with five generations of vineyard stewardship in Sonoma County dating back to the 1880’s. Ryan is guided by a philosophy that blends an understanding of the land and tradition with evolving science and data that allows for precision winemaking. He is passionate about discovering new vineyard sites and specific meso-effects within each vineyard block, and takes great pride in showcasing the quality and diversity of Sonoma County’s vineyards.
Winemaker Q&A
Sampl: How does the influence of family from being a fifth-generation winegrower play into creating a wine you’re truly proud to share?
Ryan: With five generations of our family growing grapes and making wine in Sonoma County since the 1880’s, we have an abundance of prime sites to pull our fruit from. The Pinot Gris 'Orange Wine' is from Morning Sun Vineyard in Bennett Valley, owned and farmed by my Uncle, Keith Kunde. The quality and location of the vineyard is the primary element in making premium wines and I’m grateful and proud to be continuing the tradition here in Sonoma County.
Sampl: As you were making your 2020 Pinot Gris Orange Wine, who was the first person you thought of that would like it?
Ryan: Our 2020 Pinot Gris ‘Orange Wine’ is made for the wine geek. This wine is called an ‘Orange Wine’ because the grape skin remains in contact with the juice for 60 hours before pressing, giving the wine a beautiful coppery color. We also age this wine in amphora vessels, which the ancient Greeks used to make wine. The amphora, a clay vessel, helps give the wine a richer texture.
Sampl: How does your wine bring people together?
Ryan: Wine naturally brings people together and our 2020 ‘Orange Wine’ excels at this because it is a new experience people are able to connect over.

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DRNK
2020 Pinot Gris
$5
TASTING NOTES
Consistent with the EK house style, the 2021 is as immensely satisfying and deeply flavorful as the gorgeous electric color suggests. Cooler climate Sonoma Coast Pinot delivers loads of lifted bing cherry, strawberry and watermelon while smaller additions of Syrah and Grenache bring spice, raspberry and black cherry, pushing depth, structure and flavor to the next level. 88% Pinot Noir, 7% Syrah, 5% Grenache.
WINEMAKING NOTES
Designed to be much more than a simple quaffer, roughly 50% of the juice was native fermented in older oak barrels with the balance raised in stainless steel to balance texture with freshness. We put as much work and thought into our Rosé as we would any of our other more “serious” wines and the final result skews more towards chillable red territory than super pale pink or white wine substitute.
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Sonoma Coast

Winemaker

Kent Humphrey
Onee of those “hyper-enthusiastic” wine geeks since college (writing volumes of tasting notes and spending all of his disposable income on wine), it wasn’t until age 33 that Kent worked his first harvest. He had a single goal in mind: to someday hold up a bottle of world-class wine and say, “I made this.” 20 years later, Eric Kent Wines has one joyous guiding principle – to capture the best of every vintage, showcase inspiring art on every label and celebrate the journey with you every day.
Winemaker Q&A
Sampl: What’s the story behind the art for your 2021 Sonoma Coast Rosé?
Kent: Yellena James is the artist and she has been creating intricate, organic, almost hypnotic and explosively colorful worlds for years now. That label art in particular just seemed to be a perfect match for our bright, deep, electric pink rosé.
Sampl: What’s the dynamic between you the winemaker and your art curator?
Kent: Colleen Teitgen is our curator and she and I have known each other and worked together for 25 years now. She is the master of everything visual for EK. She finds all of our artists, identifies works that will show well in our format, then offers me a chance to review and pick the final works together for each wine. It’s always a super exciting part of our process.
Sampl: How does the collaboration process work between Eric Kent and your artists?
Kent: This is a beautiful win-win all around. We like to work with art they have already created so that we don’t influence their creative process in any way (they always have final approval over what goes on the label). Then once the wine is released, we promote them and they promote us and we all try to share it with as many people as possible. Such a rewarding collaboration.

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Eric Kent
2021 Rosé
$5
TASTING NOTES
Bold and intense red fruit flavors with some hints of spice and a beautiful finish.
WINEMAKING NOTES
The growing season of 2015 has been described as "Early, Light and Exceptional." At Chenoweth Wines, we agree. In 2015 we saw a mild winter, which caused an early bud break, coupled with an unseasonably cold spring that contributed to smaller clusters. A quick and compact harvest had our winemakers working double-time to produce some of the finest wines we have seen in several vintages. Our 2015 embodies the exceptional flavors of its growing season, bold and intense red fruit flavors with some hints of spice and a beautiful finish for which Russian River Pinot Noir is known.
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Green Valley of the Russian River Valley

Winemaker

Amy Chenoweth
It’s often said that great wines are made in the vineyard, but for Charlie and Amy Chenoweth, that’s less a saying than an actual fact. For Charlie, the legendary grape grower, and Amy, the family winemaker, the fruit is everything. Proudly staked is a 20+ year history of farming some of the most coveted grapes in Sonoma County, on the land that has been in their family since the mid-1800’s.
Winemaker Q&A
Sampl: What emotions are you hoping to evoke from those who taste this wine for the first time?
Amy: I am all about fun. That's the way I wanna live the rest of my life. So I just, I always want my wines to be like you're always having fun. So you're sharing them with your fans, your friends, and your family, and it's just, you know, that fun. It's always fun, and relaxing, kind of the Cabo San Lucas of wine. So fun. That's my main thing. I love it.
Sampl: How does your 2015 Green Valley of RRV Pinot Noir and your personality overlap?
Amy: So the 2015 is really vibrant. we didn't have a whole lot of rain that year, so the berries didn't have the chance to soak up a whole lot of water. The berries are really intense and the flavors are really vibrant. I think it kind of correlates with having fun. You open it up and it's bright.
Sampl: Tell us the connection you have to your terrior.
Amy: So all of the grapes have been literally hand touched by the whole family from start to finish. I think that's really, really incredible because a lot of wineries can't say that: they purchase grapes or they grow the grapes but they’re not actually the farmers or they're not actually the winemakers. So it's pretty cool that we're able to take the land that we are so blessed to have, especially in California, and turn it into something that we can share with everybody.

Pairs well with
Ratatouille Tart

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Chenoweth
2015 Pinot Noir
$10
TASTING NOTES
Cola, sandalwood and red beets. Very suave and seductive, it is difficult to leave the cork in the bottle forvery long. It goes with so many foods: From beef to salmon.
WINEMAKING NOTES
Our regime for reds is simple and rather traditional. Sorted, destemmed, uncrushed fruit is gently dropped into open-top fermentation tanks and chilled to about 15–16° C if needed in order to delay fermentation so I can focus on the harvest date selection of following parcels. Once indigenous yeasts areactive, I often augment with a yeast strain/culture that I believe flatters the site’s usual personality. Human manual punchdowns force better knowledge of the material during fermentation and grinds the grapes upless than mechanized devices. I prefer this method as the mixing and gently crushing the grapes over many days helps develop the complexity I look for. After going dry, based on taste alone, the vats are drained and pressed to another tank so that the heaviest kinds of solids may settle out and not contribute their often undesirable characters to the wine in the months that follow. The wine is then barreled and aged through two Winters and Springs in mostly older neutral and a few new barrels as appropriate. No racking,fining or filtration were employed here. Nothing fancy for the vinification. Just nice fruit.
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Sonoma County

Winemaker

Fred Scherrer
A simple philosophy – make a good tasting wine that will age well. Since their first vintage in 1991, Fred & Judi Scherrer have been creating handcrafted, full-flavored wines that express the personality of the unique Sonoma County vineyards where they are grown. From their hands on, honest winemaking approach to the vast knowledge and shared love for this craft, Scherrer Winery brings the consistent balance of simplicity and approachability to Sampl throughout their unique varietals.
Winemaker Q&A
Sampl: Why are you passionate about sharing your winemaking process?
Fred: The winemaking process I have evolved is quite different than others' in the area as I have been solo in my own facility for decades and tend to think originally and outside the box. When sharing facilities it is natural to be influenced by how others with more experience or market success make their wine. It is natural to absorb methods without really considering the 'why.'
Sampl: How has your winemaking experience led you to make your 2016 Huntsman?
Fred: Unlike anywhere else in the world, Sonoma County has so many diverse climates within a short distance from each other that earlier and later ripening varieties can be picked at full ripeness and still be harvested at about the same time. This allows for co-fermentation which is a fantastic way to begin harmonization.
Sampl: What's the story behind the 'Huntsman' name?
Fred: I couldn't figure out what to name it. So a salesperson for my SF distributor came up with the name. I am allowed hunting access to the sites where the grapes are grown which are on the edges of civilization/wild lands. Plus the things that we find to eat on those sites go well with the wine. It was a logical name, in hindsight. I just didn't imagine it myself.

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Scherrer
2016 Red Wine
$6
TASTING NOTES
Our 2019 Red blend, dominated by Syrah and Mourvèdre is a sultry one, juicy, mouth coating, with a finish that doesn’t want to end. It conjures visions of blackberry pie, bacon wrapped prunes and clove studded orange peel. A perfect companion to Mediterranean, umami laden, wintertime dishes.
WINEMAKING NOTES
2019 was the year of water and fire. Record-breaking late winter rainfall was followed by a cool spring. A cool to average summer allowed for the development of full flavors, fresh acidity, and great balance in the wines. Our grapes were picked and our wines finished with fermentation by the time the Kincade Fire started on October 23 and barely missed the farm a few days later. Phew!
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Russian River Valley

Winemaker

Sébastien Pochan
Originally from the Languedoc region of Southern France, Sébastien has been making wine for almost 3 decades. Starting in 1995 in Healdsburg he worked at a few different wineries both in Napa and Sonoma counties. Then for 14 years, the winemaker at Unti Vineyards in Dry Creek Valley and now in charge of the entire wine program at Front Porch Farm. For Sebastien, wine blending is the main way of expressing his sensibility. It is like inviting friends for dinner, getting the right mix of people so the conversation naturally flows. We love a dinner table full of friends & family with his wines.
Winemaker Q&A
Sampl: What sets this vintage apart from the rest you’ve experienced in your career?
Sébastien: 2019 was the year of water and fire. Record-breaking late winter rainfall was followed by a cool spring. A cool to average summer allowed for the development of full flavors, fresh acidity, and great balance in the wines. Our grapes were picked and our wines finished with fermentation by the time the Kincade Fire started on October 23 and barely missed the farm a few days later.
Sampl: How do you incorporate your experience with French wines into producing Rhone varieties in Sonoma?
Sébastien: I had my first wine epiphanies in my early 20’s with Rhône wines (St Joseph, Château-neuf-du-pape, Bandol…). While I am not trying to reproduce these, they still act as comparative markers of the quality that I aim for in my wines. That said, I have now worked 27 harvests in Napa and Sonoma versus only 5 in France so I certainly have adapted to a cleaner, more fruit forward style of winemaking.
Sampl: What nostalgic dish would you make using your produce to pair with your 2019 Red Blend?
Sèbastien: My grandma use to make a stunning southern French « Veau aux olives » or veal (which can be substituted with beef) stew in a tomato, garlic, and black olives sauce with plenty of Provençal herbs. Perfect dish for this Rhône blend!

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Front Porch Farm
2019 Red Blend
$5
TASTING NOTES
This full-bodied, intense yet soft Cab Franc displays a rich burgundy hue and nose of tobacco and cassis, while delivering the fruit with plum, blackberry, a touch of tanned leather and a hint of coffee. Violets and roasted poblano pepper notes dance around the mid-palate, with a lingering finish.
WINEMAKING NOTES
In 2004 long-time friends Paul Giusto and Michael Sebastiani joined forces to create their own wine company called Generations of Sonoma. Around this time, there were several family wineries that were being purchased by large corporations, so their goal was to create a wine brand that was to be considered Sonoma’s “home town winery”. Putting their combined years of experience together with their long-term relationships with some of Sonoma Valley’s iconic family owned growers, the Highway 12 brand was born.
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Sonoma Valley

Winemaker

Paul Guisto
Putting their combined years of experience together in 2003, Michael Sebastiani and Paul Giusto joined forces and set out to be considered Sonoma’s “Hometown winery” (hence the name). With 3 generations of winegrowing family heritage, they are just that. A hands off winemaking approach… Harvest, Crush, Ferment, Barrel Age, Bottle, Repeat. No fancy winemaking recipes here! A simple philosophy of getting the best quality fruit and try to not get in the way.
Winemaker Q&A
Sampl: Why was the 2018 vintage an excellent year for your Cab Franc?
Paul: Light-ish crop, ideal ripening for maximum fruit expression. This CF is grown in the banana belt of Sonoma Valley where geothermal activity and hot springs contribute to ripening and flavor development. The final product reveals intense fruit (nothing green) and a silky, elegant softness with soft, grippy tannins attributable to the warm micro-climate.
Sampl: What’s rewarding about being the “home town” winery?
Paul: Our many loyal ‘local’ customers validate our presence and involvement in our community. Sonoma is still very ‘old school’ in many ways and we like to think that we cater to a down-home local spirit.
Sampl: What about wine from Sonoma that made you want to showcase it all under the Highway 12 label?
Paul: Our first vintage for the Highway 12 label was 2004, a single vineyard Bordeaux style blend that we still produce (16 vintages later). When we started we didn’t want the winery or wine to be about us as proprietors but rather showcase the pioneering spirit of wine growing in Sonoma. Our growers, to this day, are literally adjacent to Highway 12 - from Sonoma to the Sac river Delta. We tell the story of where, not who.

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Highway 12
2019 Cabernet Franc
$9