Dry Farmed Wines

97 Points, Kara Newman, Wine Enthusiast: "This remarkably complex sipper leads with caramel and vanilla, then reverberates with rounded dried fruit, sherry and almond, fading into a long, gentle baking spice finish. Made with 100% rye sourced from Canada, this is finished in barrels made from…

…the coolest vineyards in the valley, Vonarburg is lovingly farmed by Norm, and owned by his mom, Theresia. Tasting Notes Winemaker's notes: We picked the grapes for this wine at 22.5º Brix with 35% intentional botrytis. The result is a dry, Trocken-style Riesling where the residual sugar is more of…

…Franc and 7% Petit Verdot really struts its stuff. Moueix’s belief in dry farming seems to be paying off with stronger and stronger vintages, each successive year, and the 2014 is a sexy, opulent, layered, multidimensional wine with notes of red and blackcurrant, cedar wood, tobacco leaf , spice box…

…used barriques and larger oak vats for six to eight months. This is more serious and has more depth and concentration, with black fruit and the oak nicely integrated into the wine. There are mineral notes of graphite and earth and a medium-bodied palate with fine-grained tannins and a tasty finish."