REGION: California

BloodRoot is a collaboration between venerated winemakers with great vineyard sourcing who have come together to make value-minded wines that overdeliver with their quality. The wines are sourced from multiple benchmark vineyards throughout Napa/Sonoma and reflect the soul of each place.

Bond makes five different wines annually -- Melbury, Vecina, St. Eden, Pluribus, and Quella -- each from hillside vineyards which Harlan describes as "grand crus". Production levels sit at just about 450-600 cases for each bottling. 

Randall Grahm, the “Rhône Ranger” himself, fell in love with wine at a young age and set out for a lifetime of experimentation in winemaking. In the 1980s he had an epiphany that the climate in the Central Coast of California was perfectly suited to Rhône varieties.

At Broc Cellars, all wines are made using spontaneous fermentation, a process that means only native yeasts are used and bacteria that exist on the grapes in order to make wine. No additives here – this includes nutrients, yeast, bacteria, enzymes, tannins or other popular fermentation agents.