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American Winemaker Video Series: David Ramey

American Winemaker Video Series: David Ramey
Few winemakers have been as formative in establishing the modern voice of California wine as David Ramey. He teaches us that a great winemaker is an orchestra conductor – a sedulous student of terroir, a loyal and reverent interpreter of...

American Winemaker Video Series: Tim Mondavi

American Winemaker Video Series: Tim Mondavi
From up on Pritchard Hill, above the fog line in the Vaca Mountains, east of Napa’s valley floor, Tim Mondavi can tell a story of nearly one hundred years and three generations – now four. Tim’s grandfather, Cesare, an Italian...

American Winemaker Video Series: Doug Tunnell

American Winemaker Video Series: Doug Tunnell
Winemaking is first a dialogue – it begins between winemaker and nature, as he navigates the idiosyncrasies of his fields and cellar. And each bottle tells a story, of its earthly origins, of its winemaker’s hand. Doug Tunnell, however, first...

American Winemaker Video Series: Cathy Corison

American Winemaker Video Series: Cathy Corison
It is impossible to tell the story of Skurnik Wines without uttering the name Cathy Corison. The first Napa Cabernet in our portfolio, Cathy’s wine has been – for thirty years – an unwavering testament to the power of restraint,...

American Winemaker Video Series: Randall Grahm

American Winemaker Video Series: Randall Grahm
In loving wine, you soon learn this universe has no center. Wine is this great confluence of history and innovation – a snapshot of ancient geologic moments, a bottling of a time and place,  and a canvas for daring risks...

American Winemaker Video Series: Sashi Moorman

American Winemaker Video Series: Sashi Moorman
Sashi Moorman is a winemaker. And, in navigating the Sta. Rita Hills and their surrounds, he is a rather adept geographer, historian, geologist, and storyteller, too. This versatility is not a parlor trick, but a necessity of his craft: Sashi’s...

Stony Hill Vineyard: Pioneers of Spring Mountain

Stony Hill Vineyard: Pioneers of Spring Mountain
In the early 1940s Fred and Eleanor McCrea travelled from San Francisco to Napa Valley seeking a family getaway in the mountains for Eleanor and their two young children. On one such visit, they travelled a narrow and winding dirt...

Tectonic Origins: A Glimpse Into Sta. Rita Hills

Tectonic Origins: A Glimpse Into Sta. Rita Hills
Navigating the intricacies of the American Viticultural Areas oftentimes feels like the work of politicians as much as it does that of cartographers, historians, or geologists. That is why, when gazing from above (go ahead, take a look), Sta. Rita...

30th Anniversary American Wine Tasting

30th Anniversary American Wine Tasting
Skurnik Wines began in 1987 (as Michael Skurnik Wines) with a portfolio of just six small California wineries. Thirty years later, in addition to today’s diverse, globe-spanning portfolio of wines and spirits, we proudly offer for sale selections from nearly...

Zinfandel: American Heritage in a Glass

Zinfandel: American Heritage in a Glass
Featured Image: The Ueberroth Vineyard in Paso Robles, planted in 1885, is the oldest of Turley’s Zinfandel holdings. These vines are ungrafted, head-trained, and dry-farmed. Since its earliest mentions in horticultural catalogs of the 1820s, Zinfandel has been claimed as...