This is Tulocay Winery in Napa Valley California. While many Napa wineries
make thousands of cases of wine. our Winery makes hand crafted, zinfandel,
cabernet , chardonnay, merlot and pinot noir from some of the finest
vineyards in Napa Valley, CA. It is a Napa winery much smaller and intimate.
Winery tour of our Napa valley property can be arranged.

Chardonnay

Cabernet Sauvignon

Zinfandel

Merlot

Cabernet Sauvignon

Cliff Vineyard

Since 1981 Tulocay has offered one Cabernet Sauvignon from a single source, the Cliff Vineyard. It's located a few miles north of the winery in the hills at the end of the Old Soda Springs Road. This puts the vineyard somewhere between the Atlas Peak and Stags Leap viticultural districts.

Our 2002 Cliff Cabernet follows in the same tradition as the vintages preceding it... in other words, full throttle Napa Valley Cabernet.

Some folks like to drink our Cliff Vineyard Cabernet young. Others prefer to lay it down for five, ten or twenty years to let it soften up a bit. Either way, the Cliff is a Napa Cabernet that creates memories.

2001 Cabernet Sauvignon Cliff Vineyard, Napa Valley

"Brilliant ruby red hue. Classic cigar, black currant, sage and oak aromas. Medium-full with ripe fruit, a generous mid-palate and nice structure. The tannins are refined and the oak is subtle. RATED: 90 points (Exceptional)" — Beverage Testing Institute

Della's Vineyard and Rancho Sarco Vineyard

Since 2002, the boss has been contracting grapes from two other small cabernet vineyards, Rancho Sarco and Della's Vineyard. The owners of these two vineyards have great pride in what they grow, which is why they have preferred not to sell to large, mass production wineries. Instead, they have chosen to do business with the boss, whom they knew would produce wines that reflected the individual qualities of their vineyards.

The most forward of the two wines is the Della's Vineyard, which is very accessible and great to drink in the short term (2006-2010). The Rancho Sarco is more intense and restrained in its youth, and while a terrific accompaniment to fully flavored foods in the short term will in the long run reward patient cellaring.

We age all our Cabernets in American and French oak barrels. And because they are not fined or filtered they often throw a sediment at a very young age.

"If Gregory Peck was a grape, he would be Cabernet Sauvignon. Noble, suave, immensely charming and massively ageworthy cabernet is the stallion of style that raises the standard for all around it. In fact, that's just it with cabernet sauvignon; it's the noblest of the noble grapes, the prince against which all kinds of manners and flavours and desires are compared.... A date with a great bottle of cabernet sauvignon is like a bedroom rendezvous with royalty" — Campbell Mattinson, wine writer

[During a chase, in the Cardinal's own coach]
Porthos: "For a chase, the Cardinal recommends his excellent '24 Cabernet."
Porthos: [to D'Artagnan] "You can't have any, you're too young."
Athos: "Take the reins, boy." — from the film The Three Musketeers, written by David Loughery and directed by Stephen Herek

"Cabernet Sauvignon is the black Labrador of wines — it comes up and licks you." — Scott Rich, winemaker

The 2003 and 2004 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignons

For the majority of Tulocay's existence — some 30-plus years now — it has been our policy to single-vineyard bottle all our Cabernets. But for the 2003 ad 2004 vintages, we discovered that blending the three vineyards from which we source our Cabernet — Rossi, Rancho Sarco and Cliff — led to a sum greater than the parts.

Of the two vintages, the 2003 is more approachable now, while the 2004 shows more stuffing for greater longevity. All of the wine comes from the cooler, southeastern portion of the Napa Valley, which yields Cabernets of great balance and purity of flavor.

About pricing: Obviously, the price of Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon has gone through the roof.

Those of us who have been in the valley for many years have seen numerous changes, some good, some bad. The going price for Napa Valley Cabernets is one of those mixed blessings.

You'll find many of the smaller established wineries attempting to hold their prices to a reasonable level. They have built up a loyal clientele, many of whom are friends, and the last thing they want to do is take advantage of them.

Yet many of the newcomers are releasing their first vintages of Cabernet at $100 a bottle or more. In fact, it seems the newer the winery the more they want to charge for their wine. And there are enough of the nouveau riche out there who seem willing to pay those prices.

Well, we at Tulocay are frankly old fashioned. We believe wine should be consumed as part of the everyday dining experience, not as a means of showing off to your hoity-toity friends. Even Napa Valley Cabernet.

Which is why we're initially releasing our 2003 and 2004 Napa Valley Cabernets at only $30 per bottle. We can't guarantee we'll be able to hold the price at that level, but at least we'll be able to give our longtime friends and fans a chance to buy these beautiful offerings before the Mercedes/BMW/Hummer crowd discovers them.

To your health and well-being!

— Skippy, Chief Cellar Rat

Tulocay Winery
1426 Coombsville Road • Napa, CA 94558

Phone: (707) 255-4064
Email: bill@tulocay.com or skippy@tulocay.com

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