Spelletich Cellars Family Winery

Spelletich Cellars Family Winery
425 Gateway Road West
Napa, California
USA 94558
Phone: (707) 363-5757
http://www.spellwine.com

Contact: Barbara Spelletich
Email: [email protected]

Barbara and Timothy Spelletich and their daughter Kristen are living their American dream and are delighted to share their passion through Spelletich Cellars family winery. Via hard work, integrity, divine intervention, sacrifice and ambition.

They are the only investors, winemakers, sales and marketing team, secretaries and bookkeepers. There are no consultants. Spelletich Cellars is proud to be making wines that are unique and true to the varietal.
We pool our experience to create a unique product that helps unite food, family and friends.

Spelletich Family Winery started with the 1994 harvest in Napa Valley. The first wines were Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay and Bodog Red. With minimal intervention, they rely upon their secret weapon: Barb's palate. Focusing on three basic, yet critical principles: when to harvest, when to press and when to pull off the oak to pursue something larger and more elusive than your ordinary wines. Their approach is to produce wines of integrity; that are rich, ripe and refreshing. Barbs focus is the fruit. She wants you to be able to taste real fruit flavors and smell the incredible nose of her wines. This winery is truly only family owned and operated. Husband & wife team Timothy and Barb Spelletich and their daughter Kristen.

Barb was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. She stared her career in the wine industry as the manager of The Cork & Bottle. She worked for Ste. Michelle Winery, G. Raden & Sons, and then established her own distributorship, Zephyr Imports. This began her international travels and relationships with the finest wineries in the world. She spent every spring traveling to Germany, France, Spain, Portugal and Italy. The purpose was to visit each producer to choose the wines to be exported to the United States. These producers became friends and taught Barb much about wine making. Mainly the importance of ripe fruit and the gentle way to preserve that fruit flavor. Her next step was Whitwhams Fine and Rare Wines, based in Manchester, England and Bordeaux. Life as a negociant enhanced her contact with winemakers of all Cru Classe. She futher enhanced her winemaking skills with courses at UC Davis. Barb arrived in Napa Valley in 1992 and started working for St. Clement Vineyards in St. Helena.

Winemaker: Barbara and Timothy Spelletich

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