
The third annual International Winemaker Challenge attracted more than 800 entries from 12 countries in San Diego, CA earlier this month. V. Sattui Winery, a Napa Valley producer that also is no stranger to the winner's circle, was named Winery of the Year after scoring 29 medals on its 32 wines entered. It wasn't the sheer volume of honors that V. Sattui collected that impressed so much as the quality of the awards: Of the 29 medal-winning wines, three were platinum and participated in the championship round of voting that decided Wine of the Year. One of the platinums, the soon-to-be-released 2009 Gilsson Vineyard Zinfandel, finished in a tie for best zinfandel. Then there were 13 gold-medal wines in addition to the three platinum-medal wines.
Browse our selection of medal-winning current releases below!
Our hearty blend of mostly Zinfandel is ideal for mid-week or anytime enjoyment with pasta, pizza or burgers, and it has a price that is most affordable. But this has much more going on than any table red; this is a serious wine. And one taste confirms this. Its ripe, plummy flavors explode in the mouth with straightforward, refreshing fruitiness, all rounded out with hints of vanilla and spicy oak in the finish.
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This lovely hillside Cabernet shows expressive, mountain-bred fruit flavors of crushed berry, cassis and plum punctuated by bright herbal notes and cedar.
The grapes for this wine come from Preston Vineyard located in the Rutherford Appellation, an area where some of the finest Cabernet Sauvignon in Napa Valley is grown. The region is known for its gravelly soils which produce rich and opulent red wines with fine-grained tannins and incredible complexity.
The 35th Anniversary is a fruit-forward Zin, with abundant berry and spice aromas, medium tannins and a sweet, jammy finish. Its aromatic wild-berry character makes it a wonderful complement to spicy chicken and lamb dishes or old-fashioned, slow-cooked, barbequed ribs
This botrytised White Riesling, grown at our Henry Ranch vineyard in Carneros, was harvested on December 29, 2009, a full two months after the regular harvest. The grapes were fully infected with the “noble rot” (botrytis cinerea), a fungus which naturally increases sugars. Depending on the conditions, botrytis can be either beneficial or devastating to grapes. (375ml half-bottle)
Sourced from old vines in the Sierra foothills, this fruit forward wine with subtle hints of raspberry, spice and earthy complexity combined with alluring sweet oak make for a perfect pairing with wild boar.
Quaglia Vineyard is actually two separate vineyards here in St. Helena, about a mile apart. One parcel is on Spring Street on the west side of town; the other is on Pratt Avenue, just north of town. Both have been in the Quaglia family for more than seventy years and both sport beautiful and gnarly old head-pruned vines, some over eighty years old.
From the Dry Creek Valley renowned for world-class Zinfandels. This Zinfandel is solidly built, yet shows remarkable constraint and a slight edge of spiciness.
Carsi Vineyard lies about thirteen miles south of the winery, in a wide, flat basin just north of the town of Napa. It’s a cooler zone of heavier soils where Chardonnay does exceptionally well. V. Sattui purchased the land in 1989 and invested heavily in soil amendments, fertilization and trellising of the existing vines before naming it after my great-grandfather Vittorio’s Italian village in the mountains above Genoa. We began to produce some excellent Chardonnays in just a short time.
Nestled in the upper reaches of the Russian River Valley and lying within the Chalk Hill AVA, these 80 year old vines produce an earthy, complex Zin with a fiery streak of black pepper and layer upon layer of complexity. Just begging to be paired with a pepper crusted rib eye.