Red Car Wine Co.

Red Car Wine Co.
3306 Helms Avenue
Culver City, California
USA 90232
Phone: (707) 829-8500
http://www.red-car-wine.com/

Contact: Kim Apodaca
Email: [email protected]

Sonoma Coast! The words evoke a pastoral ideal, an escape from the urban rush, a place for food and friendship, a postcard panorama of exquisite beauty. The Sonoma Coast is all of those things, to be sure, but at heart it remains a farming community as it has been for hundreds of years. Local artisan farmers grow vegetables, livestock, fruit, flowers and honey. Local artisan producers make cheese, charcuterie, cider, olive oil and bread. Wine grapes are only the latest in a string of successful local crops, which over the years has included potatoes, hops, prunes and apples. Despite this rural history, Sonoma’s proximity to San Francisco has ensured a cultured and cosmopolitan populace that is, by all accounts, obsessed with food and wine. Extraordinary restaurants dot the landscape. Family wineries work the land at every turn. For people like us, in short, it is paradise.

From a viticultural perspective, the Sonoma Coast is ideal primarily because of its climate, which is the single most influential factor determining the potential quality of fruit. Usually spring begins around mid-March and continues with generally pleasant weather into May. This allows for a healthy and timely bud break. Rain between mid-May and mid-October is rare. Temperatures very rarely hit triple digits in a year. This long, dry, cool season is ideal because it allows grapes to ripen slowly. Slow ripening extends hang times, which in turn intensifies flavors without spiking sugars or dropping acids, both of which can occur with excessive heat.

Red Car’s long and exciting migration north started in 2004 when we purchased land atop a coastal mountain range on the “True” Sonoma Coast. The 2009 vintage is our first full harvest from our new Estate vineyard. In the coming years, it will provide more and more of our grapes and will help us produce elegant wines with exceptional balance.

Winemaker: Carroll Kemp

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