Roy Estate

Roy Estate
1181 Las Posadas Rd, Ste B
Napa, California
USA 94508
Phone: (707) 255-4409
http://www.royestate.com/index.htm

Contact: Charles Roy
Email: [email protected]

Charles and Shirley Roy were both born and raised on the East Coast. Charles is originally from Massachusetts. He is a civil engineer and an architect. Shirley was born on Long Island and grew up in New Jersey. She is an accountant and a student of fine food and wine.
Our seventeen acre vineyard was planted in 2001 and 2002 by Pina Vineyard Management under the direction of Helen Turley. The vineyard is divided into seventeen blocks, twelve blocks of Cabernet Sauvignon, four blocks of Merlot and one block of Petit Verdot. The three varietals are planted with four rootstocks and nine clones. The spacing is six feet by three feet, which equals 2,430 vines per acre. The vineyard has elaborate irrigation systems which allow us to farm vine by vine.

Philippe Melka believes winemaking begins in the vineyard. From vineyard design to careful pruning, irrigation and canopy management, his goal is to develop the most intense fruit possible. The grapes are harvested block by block in order to insure maximum ripeness from each block. At the winery, grapes from each block are destemmed, cold-soaked and fermented separately.

After primary fermentation, the wine is transferred into 100% new Taransaud oak barrels. The wine gently ages in the barrel for eighteen to twenty months. Philippe meticulously nurtures and samples the wines from each barrel. Before bottling, Philippe decides on the final blends. The wine is released twelve to eighteen months after bottling.

In the wine industry many credit Philippe Melka with a return to a focus on terroir. Melka’s style is a blend of his French influence with techniques such as gentle harvesting, extended skin contact, use of new oak and his ‘American’ insights about artisanal farming as well as winemaking.

Winemaker: Philippe Melka

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