Ravenswood Winery was founded in 1976 by winemaker and President, Joel Peterson, and his partner, W. Reed Foster, a San Francisco business man, now the Chairman and CEO of Ravenswood. That first year’s crush produced enough juice to make 327 cases of Zinfandel. Released three years later, this big, stylish wine set a standard that succeeding vintages have followed.
Today Joel and Reed are assisted by Justin Faggioli as Ravenswoods Executiv...
Many of our carefully selected grapes for our Sonoma County Series and Vineyard Designate Series come from dry-farmed 70- to 100-year-old vineyards which yield low crops of highly concentrated fruit. The younger vines are meticulously farmed and regularly thinned to ensure premium quality. Our wines from vineyards that consistently exhibit distinctive flavor and excellence are vinified and bottled separately, with the vineyards designated on t...
While the Vintners Blend Series (Zinfandel, Merlot and Chardonnay) stresses early accessibility, Ravenswood's other hand-crafted releases, such as our Cabernet Franc, Petite Sirah, and Gewurztraminer to name a few, possess a unique vintage and vineyard identity in addition to an intense, powerful ("gothic," as one wine critic wrote) character with which the winery has come to be associated. These attributes arise from what can only be called s...
In 1990 the winery adopted the slogan (most likely against its will) "NO WIMPY WINES" and has since developed many variations on that theme. The winery’s philosophy is that they take their winemaking and marketing very seriously indeed, but try to have plenty of fun along the way and not take themselves too seriously. We believe with a passion, as do many others in the California wine industry, that wine needs to be removed from its pedestal, ...
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