Richard L Graeser Winery

Richard L Graeser Winery
255 Petrified Forest Road
Calistoga, California
USA 94515
Phone: 707-942-4437
http://www.graeserwinery.com/

Contact: Richard Graeser
Email: [email protected]

Our estate vineyards are planted on the eastern slope of the Mayacamas mountain range over looking Calistoga in the north end of the Napa Valley. The rows of vines, on a 6x11 spacing, are angled with the slope of the grade, a configuration which allows for maximum vines per acre. At the time of grafting, there wasn’t the push to have the bud wood classified by clone number. The Cabernet Sauvignon vines came from a Chateau Montelena vineyard, the Cabernet Franc vines came from somewhere in Sonoma near Healdsburg, and the origin of the Merlot vines is unknown. In today’s world, the clones would be numbered and pedigreed. We have a drip system installed; however, until recently we watered very seldom and the vines grew almost too well.

My vineyard produced excellent grapes, which were in demand by some of the most renowned wineries in the region. I decided that the grapes should make the wine and it was my job to treat them in the best manner possible: keep them clean, blend them to their best potential, put them in the best cooperage that I could afford and the grapes would do the rest. This has been my philosophy and approach to winemaking since the beginning, to harvest the grapes a their peak flavor to reach a soft subtle elegant wine with long lasting qualities, a wine which is pleasant tasted alone yet superb when married to fine food. My wines are very approachable when first released and tend to last at least ten years after bottling; for example, my 1998 Cabernet Sauvignon is drinking very well right now and probably has a few more years to age.

Winemaker: Richard Graeser

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