Quantities of these super-premium varietals are

very limited and we sell out very fast!

It's first ordered, first reserved, until sold out!

Ultimate care is taken to bring to you the finest example of each variety.

The micro-climate, the clonal selection, and the professionalism

of the grower are mutually important.
 

It's also very essential that you take the time to read
"The Rules of the Harvest", below, especially regarding your responsibility

to be here when the grapes are ripe and ready!

• 100 lbs GRAPES or 6 gallons JUICE, will make 5-7 gallons of finished wine, or 25-35 bottles.

• 50% DEPOSIT REQUIRED!  DUE WITH ORDER!

• Volume Discounts: Varietals, order size, and different vintners may be combined.                

  We will need one responsible person on the order form.

(500 Lbs. and/or 35 Gals. = 10% OFF)

• The finest grapes and their transport to Camarillo (Camarillo Custom Crush Winery).

• Use of our De-stemmer (at The Winery, Camarillo)
  

             & Press (at The Shop, Woodland Hills)

• Step-by-step instructions.

• French yeast cultures and MLF culture.

• Acid/pH/SO2 adjustments.

• The Grape Help Hot-Line (818-884-8586).

• "Post-Crush Clinics" to check and advise about taste/smell,  pH, and completion of MLF.

•  Plus, personalized, professional assistance and a lot of concerned hand holding so that you will make fine wine!

CHARDONNAY: (Monterey County) The El Camino Real Vineyard in the Arroyo Seco region of cool Monterey County, produces a wine with an array of ripe fruit aromas, including citrus, guava, and orange peel that finishes delightfully crisp and lingering. 
Arrives as pre-settled juice. Total availability is limited to only 300 gallons!

CABERNET SAUVIGNON (Paso Robles): Located in the Templeton Gap with its cooler climate and the rarest of chalky soils, is Sarzotti Vineyard & Winery. These grapes retain the elegant and elusive varietal character that is usually cooked out in warmer micro-climates. These wines are rich, with lingering flavors and lovely dark cherry/violet/coffee highlights.
Total availability is limited to only 2 tons!

(The Templeton Gap -- a high-walled wind channel that is also the route of Highway 46 West. Templeton Gap winds reach far into the east side of Paso Robles, bringing cool oceanic influence and moisture into areas that would otherwise be sheltered by a madman’s maze of stone)

MERLOT (Malibu): Located in the center of the Santa Monica Mountain range with its warm, sunny days and its nights cooled by Malibu's ocean breezes, is Triunfo Creek Vineyards. Its Merlot has rich, soft flavors with boysenberry highlights, and true varietal character.
Total availability is limited to only 2 tons!

MOURVEDRE (Paso Robles): A very limited offering from Brohaugh Vineyard in Paso's Templeton Gap, with its cooler climate and the rarest of chalky soils.  

Very successful in Rhone-style blends, softening and giving structure. Its taste varies greatly according to area, but often has a wild, gamey or earthy flavor, with soft red fruit flavors.

Total availability is limited to only 2 tons!

PETITE SYRAH (Lodi): From the Lewis Vineyard  on the banks of the Mokelumne River in Lodi, where it sits above Lake Commanche. The breezes off the delta combined with the well drained gravely loam and decomposed granite soils make for a great place to grow high quality wine grapes. Expect lush, dark, fruit forward wine, yet very complex. Total availability is limited to only 2 tons!

SANGIOVESE (Santa Barbara County): Be a Chianti Caballero with these, the principle grapes for Italy's great Tuscan reds. These wines are easy to like with a lush, unpretentious, inviting quality. A Super dark clone from White Hawk Vineyards, Cat Canyon, between Santa Ynez and Santa Maria. White Hawk Vineyard, cult-like in popularity, has fantastic grapes. Total availability is limited to only 2 tons!

SYRAH (Paso Robles): For all you Rhone Rangers. Brohaugh Vineyard in Paso's Templeton Gap, with its cooler climate and the rarest of chalky soils. Lush fruitiness and lingering elegance make this a wonderful wine. Also try blending with Mourvedre.
Total availability is limited to only 3 tons!

SYRAH (Santa Barbara County):

GRAND CHAMPION WINE - Ed Szubielski, Laguna Niguel, CA

100% Premiere Coastal Partners Syrah 2007

The Grand Champion wine medal was the top overall scoring wine of 4,474 entries across all categories.

Expect from this "Premiere Coastal Partners" vineyard. Located in the gentle rolling hills above the cool Los Alamos Valley, a mere 1/2 mile away from our White Hawk Sangiovese vineyard. This special, low yield, reserve block, has the same vineyard manager; same sunny hillside exposure; same sandy well-drained soil; same long, slow growing season as White Hawk. This is exceptional, refined fruit for making wine with velvet-like tannins, max intensity of blackberry/blueberry fruit, and a rich lingering mouthfeel. Previous harvests have gone to the likes of Ojai and Sine-Qua- Non wineries.
Total availability is limited to only 2 tons!

ZINFANDEL/EAST: (Paso Robles) From San Juan Vineyards, eastside Paso Robles, comes an excellent example of California's almost native grape. Over 35 year old vines. A rare find. Expect rich, ripe, raspberry and spicey Zin flavors.
Total availability is limited to only 2 tons!

ZINFANDEL/WEST: (Paso Robles) From the infamous Poalillo Vineyard and Winery, comes a superb example of westside Paso's most famous grape. Expect lush, ripe, black pepper spiced Zinfandel. Total availability is limited to only 2 tons!

These dates are just guesses, based on last year's harvest. Do not plan your life around these dates. Harvest time can speed up or slow down due to any number of variables.

As is stated in the "The Rules of the Harvest", below, you are responsible to be

here when the grapes are ripe and ready!

A little hotter weather speeds ripening.

Rain and/or cool weather will slow things down.

After the end of August, stay in weekly contact with The Shop.  

Tuesday, after 4:00, after we've talked to the growers,
is the best time to call. 818-884-8586

• You, or your replacement, must be here when the grapes are here!

• No refunds except in the event of a natural disaster!

• Cancellation only until one week before harvest!

• If you are going to be out of town, be sure to have a team/someone ready to pick up and process your order!

• This is not a big deal. They just need to bring your container for the crushed grapes or Chardonnay juice. There's always plenty of hands available to help.

• Call us for scheduling solutions! 800-559-9922

• Plan to pay your balance when the grapes arrive.

• Checks, charges, or exact cash.

• Your grapes are picked at maximum maturity. The grower dictates the date and time.  
  This is the only way to get the best fruit that we all expect.

You can be crushing the day/night your grapes arrive!

• This usually means a weekday. Late afternoon, early evening, and early the next day. We highly suggest that you make the effort needed to fit this schedule!

• Grapes not crushed by you when they arrive, will be crushed, sulfited, acidified, and put into the walk-in for your pick-up on the following Sunday AM. They will have to be bucketed, by you, from our bins into your fermenter and weighed. This is only a labor disadvantage.

         All grapes and juice will be processed, by you and your team,

at The Daume Winery ("Camarillo Custom Crush")  in Camarillo.

         All fermented must can be pressed, by you and your team, here,

at The The Home Beer/Wine/Cheesemaking Shop in Woodland Hills.

• We'll E-MAIL you with the crush times, the moment the grower calls us.

• You must respond that you have been notified and will be there during the crush times.

• Call us for scheduling solutions! 800-559-9922

• It is your responsibility to know when the grapes are due to arrive and to be there during the crush time!

• Please call us as often as possible, at least once a week, as it gets close to harvest, since the grower only knows a few days ahead of the harvest date. After the end of August, Tuesday, after 4:00, is the best time (818-884-8586

)

It's expected that you will arrive promptly at your appointment time!

Plan to relax and enjoy yourself.
Help out those winemakers before you.
Then stay and help the newer ones.
It's a lot more fun this way and we all can use the help.

• Absolutely No Lines.  We'll get you in and out as fast as possible. Only one person or group of friends can go at a time.

• Pick up the handouts. Enjoy and share the wine and snacks that you've brought. Socialize. Pitch in and help each other.

• When called forward, pay off your order (check/exact cash/charge); pick up your specialized yeast and M-L culture (one empty wine bottle/100 lbs is needed) and step-by-step instructions.

• Then, using our commercial de-stemmer, process your red grapes.

• You'll need one 20 gallon food grade, extra strong bucket per each 150 lbs grapes.

• Or, pick up your white juice. (You'll need plastic  bottles or buckets) No Glass permitted at the crush!

• Add SO2 and adjust pH, as instructed..…and, smiling, head for home.

• When your grapes are ready to press, bring them to The Shop in Woodland Hills. The use of our big press, by you, is part of the price.

p.s.- ware non-skid shoes and casual
(as in may get dirty) clothes!
 

ORDER FORM! ORDER FORM!

(Sorry, no e-mail or phone ordering.)

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