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With over 35 years of winemaking experience, first as a home winemaker and later after studying grape growing and winemaking at the University of California at Davis, I still maintain a high passion for hands-on winemaking seldom seen in the industry.

The winemaking goal at Eagles Trace is to make wines with the elegance and finesse of a great Bordeaux vintage along with the rich fruit flavor that comes with the best of Napa Valley grapes.

Grapes are picked early in the morning and brought into the cave at a temperature below 50 degrees. After sorting and crushing into small fermenters, the must is still not more than 50 degrees. The yeasts I use for fermentation do not become active until the must warms up to the ambient temperature of the cave which is 60 degrees. This process takes four to five days and gives the must a natural cold soak while beginning the flavor development.

After completion of fermentation the wine is tasted every day to monitor the tannin development. Once the proper flavors have developed, the free run wine is drained off to new French oak barrels and the remainder is gently pressed and kept separate from the free run wiine. Blending is done early on to give the final blend a maximum amount of time to marry

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January "Wine Bailout" Special

January 5th to the 19th order a minimum of four of any Eagles Trace wines in a particular size and year and only pay for two.
That’s right - Order four 750 ml 2003 Cabs and only pay for two 2003 Cabs. Order four magnums of 2004 and pay for two.

Place your order by selecting any of the wines you want, minimum four, must be same vintage and size, and at check out time type in "BAILOUT" in the coupon box , click on recalculate and taa daa you’ll see your discount.

Cabernet Sauvignon

In the heart of the Napa Valley, just three miles east of St. Helena, Conn Creek flows out of Howell Mountain through Conn Valley. All of the Cabernet Sauvignon grapes for Eagles Trace are grown in estate vineyards located in this region. The lush fruit from our grapes gives Eagles Trace wines great richness of flavor and sense of place.

Merlot

The name Merlot conjures up many images of wine. However, when you think of the finest quality, the wines of Bordeaux, specifically those from the right bank of the Dordogne River in the Village or Pomerol come to mind. Here one finds the wines of the likes of Chateau Petrus, L’Evangile and Le Pin. Much like those vineyards, our estate wines produce Merlot with opulence, finesse and rich ripe fruit.

Pinot Noir

A collaboration of four people: Art and Gus Anderson, along with the support of their wives, Elaine and Phyllis. Their friendship dates over 50 years.
Valhalla Vineyard was planted over 20 years ago with a grand cru burgundy clone brought to the United States in the early part of the 20th Century.
Medium to dark ruby color with a nose of red cherries, blackberry and oriental 5-spice. The cherries and blackberries carry over into the flavors in the mouth.
The wine has an outstanding freshness that lingers in the mouth along with the sweet tannins.

Latitude 38

A wine with dense ruby-purple color and a nose that rises majestically from the glass. It fills your nose with the scent of black berries, black currants, smoke and flowers.

This profoundly rich and elegant wine displays a wonderful mouth feel of black fruits, white pepper and sweet, ripe tannins. It is extremely well balanced and the flavors linger for 45 seconds or more – begging for another taste.

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