Grower-winemaker in Fair Play (El Dorado County) would like to lease her 2-acre Cabernet Sauvignon vineyard for 2026. Grower can provide guidance if new to farming grapes but would like some fruit in trade for farming the season. She provides some details: This is a Cabernet Sauvignon block planted in 2015. It’s Lafite Rothschilds clone…
The group buy opportunity for Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, Petite Sirah, Mourvedre from Clos du Lac Vineyards in Loomis is quickly filling. If you’re interested, contact coordinator Thad Rodgers. See the details at this blog post.
If you’ve been wanting to make wine from different varieties but couldn’t because you didn’t meet the grower’s minimum, this group buy opportunity may be for you. Clos du Lac is an established vineyard community in Loomis that sells to both commercial wineries and home wine makers. For the 2026 harvest, they offer for sale…
Tempranillo, Cabernet Sauvignon, Granacha and Malbec for sale. The vineyards are located in El Dorado County, in the community of Fair Play at 2700 feet altitude and rooted in decomposed granite, volcanic soil. Since they are grown at altitude and it was a mild summer, they are just becoming ripe. Tempranillo and Cab Sauv are…
600 to 700 lbs of Cabernet Sauvignon grapes at about 22.5 Brix now. These vines are 3 years old and this is the first harvest. $5 for a 5 gallon bucket of grapes. That’s about 22 cents a pound. Contact Greg Leathem at (916) 847-6157.
The vineyards are located on the floor of the Sonoma Valley in the town of Sonoma. The grapes were sold to Rosenblum for years under the Maggie’s Reserve label. Available are 4 tons of 135-year old Zinfandel, and about half ton of Semillon. A delicious wine is produced when the two varieties are co-fermented. Fruit…
