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Keller Estate Winery (Sonoma Wineries)
5875 Lakeville Highway
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(707) 765-2117
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Pinot Noir, Chardonnay in Sonoma Coast's Petaluma Gap | Keller Estate
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What started as a Sunday drive through the Sonoma hillside turned into a love affair with a spectacular vineyard location that is now Keller Estate Winery. Ana Keller, General Manager of Keller Estate in the Sonoma Coast, shares the story of how this stunning estate is so much more than just vineyards.
Ana’s father always loved old cars and discovered the beautiful windy roads of Sonoma County. When he found the property – which used to be just cow grazing country, not wine country yet – he jumped on the opportunity to purchase. He built a dirt road to drive his old cars around the property, eventually paving the road and adding many acres of olives, trees and Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grapevines in hopes that the property will live on for many generations.
Keller Estate is located in one of the coolest areas to grow grapes – the Sonoma Coast AVA in the heart of the Petaluma Gap. Every afternoon the region enjoys a beautiful, steady wind that slows down the maturation of the wines and extends the grape growing cycle. The area used to be a part of the sea beds of the San Pablo Bay. When the ocean receeded it left lots of minerality in the soils. Wines have great acidity and big, beautiful fruit representative of California. More than anything, the wines are food friendly.
Ana’s parents have always had a great appreciation for art and her sister is an artist who designed and built all the doors around the tasting room patio. Whenever they find something beautiful they like to find a way to incorporate it into the estate.
Watch our video to learn more. You can find Keller Estate Winery’s 2013 Sonoma Coast Chardonnay at cellarangels.com/wines for a short time.
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Ep 224: Ana Keller of Keller Estate in the brand new Petaluma Gap AVA of Sonoma, CA
Continuing the Women in Wine series for Women's History Month 2018, I speak with Ana Keller of Keller Estate. She helped establish the Petaluma Gap American Viticultural Area (AVA), which is Sonoma's newest cool climate appellation making excellent Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Syrah. Ana is one of the only women of Mexican heritage running a wine estate, and she is simply amazing.
Here are some of the notes from our conversation:
We talk about how her family got into wine. We discuss Ana's educational background -- she attended the University of Mexico and obtained a biopharmaceutical chemistry degree and then to King’s College in London for a Masters in Pharma Development. We talk about how Ana got into wine as a consumer and how her dad roped her into the business as Estate Director. Ana shares her feelings about mentors in the wine industry and what it was like to be a young woman in wine in the 1990s. We dig into the Petaluma Gap AVA -- what makes it different, how the appellation was conceived of, and why the wines are so very different from the rest of Sonoma. Finally, we wrap up with a conversation about the current state of women in the wine industry and the role of amazing men in forwarding the careers of women in it.
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Petaluma, California
Petaluma is a small city in Sonoma County, California, in the United States. Its population was 57,941 according to the 2010 Census.
The Rancho Petaluma Adobe, located in Petaluma, is a National Historic Landmark. Its construction started in 1836 by order of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, then Commandant of the San Francisco Presidio. It was the center of a 66,000 acre ranch stretching from Petaluma River to Sonoma Creek. The adobe is considered one of the best preserved buildings of its era in Northern California.
Petaluma is a transliteration of the Coast Miwok phrase péta lúuma which means hill backside and probably refers to Petaluma's proximity to Sonoma Mountain.
Petaluma has a well-preserved, historic city center[9] which includes many buildings that survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
The Coast Miwok resided in southern Sonoma County, and Péta Lúuma was originally the name of a Miwok village east of the Petaluma River. A number of other Coast Miwok villages were also located in and around what is now Petaluma; Wotoki, immediately to the south of the village of Petaluma, on the opposite side of the river, Etem, Likatiut, and Tuchayalin, near downtown Petaluma, and Tulme and Susuli, just north of what are now the city limits of Petaluma.
The Petaluma area was part of a 66,000 acre (270-km²) 1834 Mexican land grant by Governor Jose Figueroa to Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo called Rancho Petaluma. In 1836, Vallejo ordered construction of his Rancho Petaluma Adobe a ranch house in Petaluma, which his family often used as a summer home, while he resided in the neighboring town of Sonoma. Vallejo's influence and Mexican control in the region began to decline after Vallejo's arrest during the Bear Flag Revolt in 1846.
Pioneers flocked into Petaluma from the eastern United States after Michael Celiberti found gold in the Sierra Nevadas in 1849. The town's position on the Petaluma River in the heart of productive farmland was critical to its growth during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Sailing scows, such as the scow schooner Alma (1892), and steamers plied the river between Petaluma and San Francisco, carrying agricultural produce and raw materials to the burgeoning city of San Francisco during the California Gold Rush.
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Best Rosé for Summer | Keller Estate, Sonoma Coast
888 282-1353 Warm weather is often marked by this color – rosé. Rosé is something many of us can drink all year round, especially during the summer time. This wine is from the Keller Estate - the best rosé for summer.
Ana Keller is the co-winemaker and she is also a biochemist, so there’s that to throw into the mix! Located in the Sonoma Coast, this is a sprawling estate with hundreds of acres. They were a winery with a car problem and a wine solution. If you go to Keller Estate, you can see that Arturo Keller had a strong hobby in cars. He found this rolling ranch and decided to build a track where you can drive cars.
The family then recognized it was also a prime grape growing region. They make world class Chardonnay, world class Pinot Noir. We are fortunate to feature this on Cellar Angels – it is reduced in price to help raise money for charities. It is not even on their website. It is a nice thing they send to some of their customers. And there are only 94 cases. The juice is 100% Pinot Noir all from the Keller Estate in Sonoma.
There’s a lot of confusion in the wine industry, especially when you walk into a wine store anywhere in the country and you look upon row after row of bottles. Generally the wines all look the same, and there is a reason for that, and that is what I want to talk about.
There are 1500 wineries between Napa and Sonoma alone. And there are about 1000 of them that you can’t purchase outside of California because they lack distribution. This is the challenge. You go to wine country then you get home and look for the wine you fell in love with, but it is not there.
Because the winery doesn’t make enough, the distributor is not going to carry it. Cellar Angels decided to solve that problem. Lets get these wineries some exposure. Lets get these wines into the hands of wine lovers.
This is a rosé I could drink all day. It has that pale, pink salmon color. It has very soft, ripe strawberry and watermelon. When you grow up with fresh watermelon, but also have jolly rancher candy, its very different. Think fresh watermelon at the farmer’s market. You have that brilliant color and that aroma and you know that fresh watermelon is being served and your mouth starts watering.
As I said, no dump bucket. Very low alcohol. No burn whatsoever. Great acidity. There’s some wet stone minerality. Not flinty, but a slatey softness that has some nice minerality and a long finish.
100% Pinot Noir. We can get technical and geeky on how it is made. It is made in what is known as the saignée method. Not to be confused with Sanjay Gupta on CNN. It’s a French term. What it means is to bring the grapes into the crusher, de-stem them, put them into the tank. And you have a method to where the juice is in contact with the skins. Keller Estate actually has eight hours of skin contact. And this actually impacts the color. The more juice to skin contact, the darker the wine. No malolactic fermentation here. It is an awesome patio pounder. You can drink this all day on the patio. It is not a big red wine, not a crisp acidic white wine.
Right down the line of well balanced pure great fruit flavors, a little orange blossom. That sounded geeky! One thing I love about world-class rosé is what it is not. It is not is white zinfandel. If you grew up in the 80s and were exposed to that, this is anything but that. This is a demarcation of Spring in France, Spain, and Italy. It is time to be out on the patio, dining al fresco and having a great glass of wine as the sun sits in the sky a little longer. That is what rosé is all about. Getting people together. Sharing good conversation.
Keller make a world class Pinot Noir, a world class Chardonnay, with biodynamic, sustainable farming. They are trying to keep the land perfect and pristine for future generations to come. The proof is in the bottle.
We will catch up with you again next week on #nodumpbucket. Cheers!
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Napa Valley's Brasswood Estate: Wine, Food, Art & Lifestyle
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Napa Valley is world-renowned for having some of the finest destinations for wine, food and art. But until now, none of it was in one location. Meet Brasswood Estate.
General Manager Marcus Marquez shares with us the lifestyle destination that is Brasswood. The Estate was created through passion and represents a true destination spot where you can relax and take “the St. Helena lifestyle seriously”.
The 57-acre property in St. Helena, centered around many legendary winemakers, is designed in a fashion where you can start your day there – grab something from the bakery, then stay for the artwork, impeccable grounds, meal at the restaurant and sensory wine education.
Winemaking is led by Stacia Williams, with consulting winemaker and neighbor, Angelina Mondavi on board. Making wine since she was 10 years old, Angelina is a perfect compliment to Stacia’s style. She also makes wine on the property with her two direct to consumer brands, Dark Matter and Aloft.
Brasswood also has impressive portfolio clients, as they are one of the most state of the art wineries in Napa Valley right now, including 17,000 square feet of caves and a living roof that helps control the energy to create an environment for high quality wines. Others making wine at the facility include Phillipe Melka, Russell Bevan and Timothy Milos.
From start to finish, nothing has been overlooked at Brasswood. The attention to detail is off the charts, and from a lifestyle destination location, there’s nothing like it in Napa Valley. Fine wine, exceptional dining, amazing artwork and gorgeous grounds that you have to experience! Learn more:
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2018 IN THE PETALUMA GAP A PERFECT VINTAGE 11-7-2018
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Video Editing by: Holly Dubkoff
After the extremes of 2017, this year’s growing season was a gift from Mother Nature. Wine journalists have called it a return to something more like “normal,” and some winemakers, pushing the hang-time envelope, may just have harvested their final blocks. Did the end-of-the-season showers put a damper on the perfect vintage? This will be an engaging discussion of how we fared across the various sites within the AVA and throughout the harvest – focusing on vineyard practices, yields, production and winemaking decisions.
Moderated by: Dr. Liz Thach, Distinguished Professor of Wine & Management Sonoma State University
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Sonoma Coast Chardonnay from Heintz Vineyard
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The Secret Service knows a thing or two about hiding in plain sight and when this retired agent set out to make small-batch Chardonnay he chose Heintz Vineyard in Sonoma.
Sonoma is producing some of the finest wines in the world and Von Holt Wines is quickly climbing the ranks of producing vineyard designate, low-alcohol wines. Aged in new French Oak, a buttery Chardonnay this is not.
This rare video interview with Chris Von Holt takes the fine wine lover behind the scenes to demonstrate what pursuing your dreams in wine is all about. Should you desire a tasting appointment with Von Holt wines just give us a call.
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Napa Valley's Rutherford vineyards | Balanced elegance from the best
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It was a memorable trip to Bordeaux that solidified Larry and Jean Rowe’s decision to make Greyscale Wines solely from Bordeaux varietals. With experience at Opus One and Clos du Val, their talented Winemaker Kian Tavakoli finds the best vineyards in Napa Valley’s Rutherford AVA to suit the Rowe’s wine style. Cellar Angel Shannon Williams, shares the story behind the ultra premium, small lot producer - Greyscale Wines.
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Global wine map changes as climate change hits
(28 Jun 2018) LEADIN:
Wineries worldwide are confronting climate change as warming temperatures push viticulture further north.
Vinyards in some of the world's warmer regions are being abandoned while winemakers are now able to grow grapes in places as far north as Nova Scotia. In the American West, vintners in Oregon and California are creating new wine-growing regions in areas known for their cooling coastal breezes and are changing some farming practices.
STORYLINE:
This winery in Oregon's Willamette Valley has been growing pinot noir grapes for decades, helping build the region's reputation for award-winning wines from fruit that favours cooler conditions.
But vintners here - and around the world - are now grappling with the impact of a warming planet and what it means for their wines in an industry where just a few degrees can make a big difference.
Christine Collier Clair remembers the moment she realised climate change was something her vineyard needed to take seriously.
Probably in the 2015 vintage. That vintage we started harvesting on August 28th and I have never been part of a harvest that was in August before, she says.
And in fact, as an Oregonian, usually we can be pretty lackadaisical into …I've done harvests where they didn't start until October. And so, to be that caught off guard with that warm of a growing season was really kind of the 'ah ha' moment that this is serious and happening.
Willamette Valley vineyards is now grafting different root stocks onto vines to produce more heat-tolerant plants, pruning to better shade grape clusters and buying land at higher elevations.
Other Oregon winemakers are using the wind to hedge their bets, planting where coastal breezes mitigate the warming climate.
Greg jones is an expert on how climate change is affecting the global wine industry.
He says global warming is changing the playing field for wine lovers.
I recently spoke at the International Cool Climate Conference in England, and we're seeing places all further north than they've ever been, he says.
It used to be thought that the 50-degree parallel was the limit of viticulture worldwide and now we're seeing vineyards planted up to 57 degrees in parts of Scandinavia, Nova Scotia, parts of Canada, up in British Columbia.
From South Africa's drought-stricken vineyards, to France's noble chateaus, to sunny vineyards in Australia and California, growers and winemakers say they are seeing the effects of climate change as temperatures rise, with swings in weather patterns becoming more severe.
In Great Britain, climate change has uncorked production of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.
In California, a newly designated wine-growing region called Petaluma Gap is taking advantage of cooling breezes, firmly rooting the business in new areas of an already wine-rich state.
Clearly, we can't move the vineyards once they're planted, so we have to adapt to the changes that we're seeing, says Ana Keller, estate manager at Keller Vineyards.
We can look for ways to shade the fruit, so the fruit stays cooler. We can also make sure that the vines have the nutrients, something that we would have done regardless of where we were. But we have to be very mindful that the farming techniques have to change.
Adaptation that's full of intoxicating possibilities for some and sobering realties for others, as temperatures continue to rise.
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Wineries Benefit, Suffer from Climate Change
(28 Jun 2018) (NATS)
THIS WINERY IN OREGON'S WILLAMETTE VALLEY HAS BEEN GROWING PINOT NOIR GRAPES FOR DECADES …
… HELPING BUILD THE REGION'S REPUTATION FOR AWARD-WINNING WINES FROM FRUIT THAT FAVORS COOLER CONDITIONS.
(NATS)
BUT VINTNERS HERE -- AND AROUND THE WORLD -- ARE NOW GRAPPLING WITH THE IMPACT OF A WARMING PLANET.
AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR THEIR WINES IN AN INDUSTRY WHERE A FEW DEGREES CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE.
CHRISTINE COLLIER CLAIR REMEMBERS THE MOMENT SHE REALIZED CLIMATE CHANGE WAS SOMETHING HER VINEYARD NEEDED TO TAKE SERIOUSLY.
SOUNDBITE (English), Christine Clair, winery director, Willamette Valley Vineyards
It was probably the 2015 vintage. That vintage we started harvesting on August 28th and I have never been part of a harvest that was in August before. And in fact, as an Oregonian, usually we can be pretty lackadaisical …I've done harvests where they didn't start until October. So, to be that caught off guard with that warm of a growing season was really kind of the 'ah ha' moment that this is serious and it's happening.
(NATS)
WILLAMETTE VALLEY VINEYARDS IS NOW GRAFTING DIFFERENT ROOT STOCKS ONTO VINES TO PRODUCE MORE HEAT-TOLERANT PLANTS.
PRUNING TO BETTER SHADE GRAPE CLUSTERS …
AND BUYING LAND AT HIGHER ELEVATIONS.
(NATS)
OTHER OREGON WINEMAKERS ARE USING THE WIND TO HEDGE THEIR BETS, PLANTING WHERE COASTAL BREEZES MITIGATE THE WARMING CLIMATE.
(NATS)
GREG JONES IS AN EXPERT ON HOW CLIMATE CHANGE IS AFFECTING THE GLOBAL WINE INDUSTRY AND SAYS GLOBAL WARMING IS CHANGING THE PLAYING FIELD FOR WINE LOVERS.
SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH), Greg Jones, director of wine education, Linfield College
It used to be thought that the 50-degree parallel was the northern limit of viticulture worldwide and now we're seeing vineyards planted up to 57 degrees in parts of Scandinavia, Nova Scotia, parts of Canada -- up in British Columbia.
VINEYARDS IN PLACES LIKE SOUTHERN FRANCE, ITALY AND GREECE ARE INCREASINGLY BEING ABANDONED FOR COOLER CLIMATES AS PART OF A NORTHERN MIGRATION FOR WINEMAKERS IN EUROPE.
(NATS)
AND IN GREAT BRITAIN, CLIMATE CHANGE HAS UNCORKED PRODUCTION OF PINOT NOIR AND CHARDONNAY.
(NATS)
IN CALIFORNIA, A NEWLY DESIGNATED WINE-GROWING REGION CALLED PETALUMA GAP TAKES ADVANTAGE OF COOLING BREEZES…
FIRMLY ROOTING THE BUSINESS IN NEW AREAS OF AN ALREADY WINE-RICH STATE.
SOUNDBITE (English), Ana Keller, estate manager for Keller Vineyards
Clearly, we can't move the vineyards once they're planted, so we have to adapt to the changes that we're seeing. … We have to be very mindful that the farming techniques have to change.
(NATS)
ADAPTATION THAT'S FULL OF INTOXICATING POSSIBILITIES FOR SOME.
AND SOBERING REALTIES FOR OTHERS AS TEMPERATURES CONTINUE TO RISE.
GILLIAN FLACCUS, ASSOCIATED PRESS, TURNER, OREGON
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Global wine map changes as climate change hits
(28 Jun 2018) LEADIN:
Wineries worldwide are confronting climate change as warming temperatures push viticulture further north.
Vinyards in some of the world's warmer regions are being abandoned while winemakers are now able to grow grapes in places as far north as Nova Scotia. In the American West, vintners in Oregon and California are creating new wine-growing regions in areas known for their cooling coastal breezes and are changing some farming practices.
STORYLINE:
This winery in Oregon's Willamette Valley has been growing pinot noir grapes for decades, helping build the region's reputation for award-winning wines from fruit that favours cooler conditions.
But vintners here - and around the world - are now grappling with the impact of a warming planet and what it means for their wines in an industry where just a few degrees can make a big difference.
Christine Collier Clair remembers the moment she realised climate change was something her vineyard needed to take seriously.
Probably in the 2015 vintage. That vintage we started harvesting on August 28th and I have never been part of a harvest that was in August before, she says.
And in fact, as an Oregonian, usually we can be pretty lackadaisical into …I've done harvests where they didn't start until October. And so, to be that caught off guard with that warm of a growing season was really kind of the 'ah ha' moment that this is serious and happening.
Willamette Valley vineyards is now grafting different root stocks onto vines to produce more heat-tolerant plants, pruning to better shade grape clusters and buying land at higher elevations.
Other Oregon winemakers are using the wind to hedge their bets, planting where coastal breezes mitigate the warming climate.
Greg jones is an expert on how climate change is affecting the global wine industry.
He says global warming is changing the playing field for wine lovers.
I recently spoke at the International Cool Climate Conference in England, and we're seeing places all further north than they've ever been, he says.
It used to be thought that the 50-degree parallel was the limit of viticulture worldwide and now we're seeing vineyards planted up to 57 degrees in parts of Scandinavia, Nova Scotia, parts of Canada, up in British Columbia.
From South Africa's drought-stricken vineyards, to France's noble chateaus, to sunny vineyards in Australia and California, growers and winemakers say they are seeing the effects of climate change as temperatures rise, with swings in weather patterns becoming more severe.
In Great Britain, climate change has uncorked production of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.
In California, a newly designated wine-growing region called Petaluma Gap is taking advantage of cooling breezes, firmly rooting the business in new areas of an already wine-rich state.
Clearly, we can't move the vineyards once they're planted, so we have to adapt to the changes that we're seeing, says Ana Keller, estate manager at Keller Vineyards.
We can look for ways to shade the fruit, so the fruit stays cooler. We can also make sure that the vines have the nutrients, something that we would have done regardless of where we were. But we have to be very mindful that the farming techniques have to change.
Adaptation that's full of intoxicating possibilities for some and sobering realties for others, as temperatures continue to rise.
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