Wing Canyon Vineyard

Wing Canyon Vineyard
3100 Mt. Veeder Rd.
Napa, California
USA 94558
Phone: (707) 265-8798
http://wingcanyonvineyard.com/

Contact: Kathy & Bill Jenkins
Email: [email protected]

Wing Canyon Vineyard is a very small and remote bonded winery and steep hillside vineyard located near the top of Mt. Veeder. Access to the home and winery is a winding gravel road down a canyon, over a creek and through the redwoods.

The winery was completed in 1991, just in time for the harvest of our first vintage. We produced 380 cases that year! Fifteen vintages later, and we are still producing less than 1000 cases per year. The winery is a 20 by 37 foot rammed earth building with a large barn-slider on the porch side and matching arched redwood (wine tank wood) doors on either end. The 2 foot thick rammed earth walls help maintain the cool, even temperatures required for optimum barrel aging for the one hundred barrels stacked three high inside.

Adjacent to the winery is our residence, which serves as tasting room, office, and guesthouse, labeling area and storage facility.

The vineyard has always been tended within the guidelines of organic, sustainable farming. Permanent cover crops such as rose and crimson clover, Persian nitro clover, Zorro fescue and blando brome grass are allowed to reseed before mowing and cultivation. No herbicides, pesticides or synthetic fungicides are used. Only wettable sulfur is used for mildew control.

Harvest yields are less than one and a half tons per acre producing wines with concentrated intense flavors.

Winemaker: Bill Jenkins

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