Traditional, artisan winemaking techniques and ripe fruit from the best of Napa Valley and Sonoma County create the elegance and richness of Ramey wines. We craft our wines so that while they may be enjoyed now, they possess the structure and balance to reward aging.

Cabernet Blends
We draw our Cabernet Sauvignons and blends from outstanding Napa Valley vineyards, contracting either the entire harvest of the vineyard or specific blocks, and we work closely with the growers throughout the year. The harvest is broken up into many small lots to optimize grape maturity and fermented with native yeast. Each wine is blended early, in the tradition of Bordeaux, and bottled without filtration.

2008 Claret, Napa Valley
2007 Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley
2008 Cabernet Sauvignon, Annum, Napa Valley
2008 Cabernet Sauvignon, Pedregal Vineyard, Oakville

Chardonnays
Each series of wine, vineyard-designate and appellation, are made identically so that the differences between them show the effects of site, or terroir, and region. All of our Chardonnays are whole-cluster pressed, fermented in Burgundian barrels with native yeast and bottled without filtration.

Vineyard Designate Series
Coming from special vineyard sites, these wines show great depth of flavor, length of finish, aromatic complexity, and a fine balance between richness and delicacy. Typically the climate is cool, the soil vigor low, and the vine clone or selection one with small berries, small clusters and inherently low yields. 

2008 Hyde Vineyard Chardonnay, Napa-Carneros
2008 Hudson Vineyard Chardonnay, Napa-Carneros
2008 Ritchie Vineyard Chardonnay, Russian River Valley

Appellation Series
These are classic wines that show the characteristics of their region. These are cool sites with low vigor soil, which may be planted to a larger-clustered clone. They receive less new oak and less time in barrel than the single-vineyard wines, but otherwise are made identically to them.

2008 Sonoma Coast
2009 Sonoma Coast
2009 Russian River Valley

Syrahs
In 2002 we planted two Syrah vineyards, Rodgers Creek and Shanel, because we know the northern Rhône model, love it, and are convinced that cool-climate, coastal California Syrahs rival those of the Rhône. Not in the future, but now. That said, we're in the business of making and selling wine first and educating about wine second. The public has spoken, and we are retrenching.

2008 Sonoma Coast Syrah
2008 Rodgers Creek Syrah, Sonoma Coast