In The Winery Part 2: Pressing and Settling

No, its not a new pilates move; it's part of how we make Chardonnay at Sebastiani Vineyards and Winery. Balance and restraint are important to us in our Chardonnays, which requires very delicate handling of the juice prior to fermentation. Our state of the art tank press and settling tanks give winemaker Mark Lyon extremely high quality juice to work with!

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In The Winery Part 1: From The Crush Pad

This is part one of a series of videos that explain how we make wines at Sebastiani Vineyards and Winery. For those of you who love detail, and you know who you are, here's a more in depth look by winemaker Marc Cuneo at our custom built grape handling equipment on our crush pad. When it comes to gentle grape handling, it doesn't get any better than this!

Wine Spectator Values

The cover story in the current issue of the Wine Spectator reviews wines and wineries that they consider to be great values-and Sebastiani Vineyards and Winery figures prominently in the story. No less than five of our wines are listed in the story by Jim Laube, which describes us as an "Outstanding Value Producer...The Best The Golden State Has To Offer".

The five wines reviewed are:

2004 Alexander Valley Merlot

2005 Alexander Valley Merlot

2005 Sonoma County Cabernet Sauvignon

2006 Sonoma County Chardonnay

2005 Sonoma County Zinfandel

Congratulations to winemaker Mark Lyon and his winemaking staff!