Ramey Wines



	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. 2006 Claret, Napa Valley 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon, Larkmead Vineyard, Napa Valley 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon, Annum, Napa Valley 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon, Annum, Napa Valley 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon, Jericho Canyon Vineyard, Napa Valley 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon, Pedregal Vineyard, Oakville 2007 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. 2006 Hyde Vineyard Chardonnay, Napa-Carneros 2006 Hudson Vineyard Chardonnay, Napa-Carneros 2006 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. 2007 Carneros District 2007 Russian River Valley 2007 Sonoma Coast Syrahs Our two Syrahs, Shanel and Rodgers Creek, are a study in contrasts. Shanel, somewhat sheltered by Sonoma Mountain from cooling ocean air flow, is a bit warmer, ripening as much as three weeks before Rodgers Creek. The site is still significantly cooler than the Napa Valley, though. Syrah as a varietal is greatly affected by climate, with warm planting sites yielding wines much more in the Australian Shiraz mold—rich, ripe and jammy. Cooler sites, on the other hand, develop the Syrah character seen in the northern Rhone—pepper, smoked meat, green olive, a bit of grapefruit. While both of our Syrahs have this distinct “Syrahness”, it is more pronounced at the cooler Rodgers Creek site, on the southwest or ocean-facing slope of Sonoma Mountain. The Shanel Vineyard, while distinctly Syrah, shows a richer, fruitier character. 2006 Shanel Vineyard Syrah, Sonoma Coast 2006 Rodgers Creek Syrah, Sonoma Coast