Twisted Oak Winery

Twisted Oak Winery
4280 Red Hill Road
Vallecito, California
USA 95251
Phone: 209-736-9080
http://www.twistedoak.com/

Contact: Jeff Stai
Email: [email protected]

We always thought that one day we would have bios and cool stuff like that that no one reads - but in fact it is all about the wine, and not about our special personal journeys. Someday, maybe we will get around to it. Nagging might work.

In the meantime you can enjoy this picture of Garnacha Blanca, (the big white winery dog, you can call her Nacha) and her buddy Mokie. As you can see, they are working hard to ensure that Twisted Oak is the best wine around! If you are looking for the perfect pairing for the next brain-eating Zombie Apocalypse, we have no idea about that (well, nothing we're willing to publicly disclose) but...

We’re often asked what the background of Twisted Oak is, to which we invariably reply, “The Sierra Nevada, of course!” If we are pressed further, we are forced to admit that Twisted Oak Winery is the culmination
of a delusion, er, vision by Jeffand Mary Stai. The vision was of a terroir based winery making superior hand crafted, yummy wines, and then having more Twisted fun than anyone in the industry selling them. Jeff and Mary work closely with winemaker Scott Klann in crafting the Twisted Oak wines. Scott has been in the wine making businessover 15 years. Scott’s knowledge of what works best is unmatched in the area (it doesn’t hurt that he was raised in Murphys.) Scott’s experience and personal relationships with the growers in Calaveras County allows Twisted Oak Winery to purchase the best fruit from these outstanding vineyards to complement our estate grape programs. Jeff and Mary found 120 acres just outside
Murphys in the Sierra Foothills at nearly 2000 feet elevation. It is there that they planted 10 acres of vineyards in Tempranillo,Grenache, Graciano, and Garnacha to take advantage of the continental Mediterranean soil types and climate. It is on top of this property, with anamazing view of the Sierras,where the state-of-the-art,no-pumpover, four-level gravity flow winery was built. When completed in 2004 it included open tank, stainless steel fermenters along with our own 300-foot barrel cave. This is all under the watchful eye of a 350 year old California.

Winemaker: Scott Klann

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