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  • Weather

    5° C Clear sky
  • Time

    23:41 PM
  • Wine average?

    84 Tb
  • Country Ranking?

    209
  • Region Ranking?

    3
  • Popularity ranking?

    246

History

Iron Horse is one of Sonoma County's most prestigious, small, independent, estate, family owned wineries located in cool, foggy Green Valley, within the famed Russian River Valley. The founding partners, Audrey and Barry Sterling first saw it in the pouring rain in February 1976. Driving down Ross Station Road, they were sure they were lost until they crested the knoll and the view opened up to 300 acres of gentle rolling hills and a wall of t...

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Vineyards

Iron Horse is located in Green Valley in the coolest, foggiest part of the Russian River Valley, just 13 miles from the Pacific as the crow flies. There are approximately 160 acres in vine, planted exclusively to Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. It is an exquisite estate-all gentle, rolling hills, with a spectacular view from the winery clear across Sonoma County to Mount St. Helena.

The predominant soil type is Gold Ridge soil-a sandy clay loam th...

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Winemaking

The Iron Horse concept is to make estate bottled wines, which show a definite "sense of place”. The family feels very strongly about making wines that are specific to the Green Valley appellation, our special vineyard and the vintage, making the best wines of the year, and never falling back on "recipe” winemaking.

 

Generally speaking, the wines are expressive, stylish, highly nuanced, bright, focused, soft and silky. They exude quality and...

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8 different wines with 8 vintages

Winemaking since 1979

  • David Munksgard

    Winemaker
    As to what my job is here, it was made quite clear that simply maintaining the current quality of Iron Horse wines is not enough. As Joy Sterling put it, ’it’s time to raise the bar'.
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