About Winery
Laurel Glen is divided into three regions:
Sonoma Mountain Estate Cabernet, California Heartland Reds, and
Argentine old vine cabernet and malbec from the province of Mendoza.
Each
region is comprised of two wines: special lot selection and vineyard
blend. Vineyards are sustainably farmed and winemaking is traditional
and non-interventionist. All Laurel Glen wines reflect their vineyard
origins, and are consciously made to favor depth and complexity over
fruit-forward expression.
SONOMA MOUNTAIN ESTATE
- Patrick and Faith Campbell began farming Laurel Glen in 1977. The
vineyards, most of which were replanted in 1968, now encompass some 35
acres in 9 contiguous blocks on the red, rocky, volcanic eastern facing
slopes of Sonoma Mountain at the 1000' elevation above Glen Ellen.
Average yield in these sparse soils is 1.5 - 2.5 tons per acre. Farming
is organic and meticulous. Laurel Glen and Counterpoint are 100%
cabernet sauvignon.
CALIFORNIA HEARTLAND
- In the latter part of the 1800s, the pioneer grape growers planted
out the rich lands of California's interior to the traditional grapes
of their homelands. Today, the region of Lodi, on the cooler and less
fertile margin of the Valley near the Sacramento River delta, is still
home to scores of these heritage vineyards that thrive in its
sandy/gravelly soils. Here we farm carignane, petite syrah, and
zinfandel vineyards for REDS and
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MENDOZA
- While Italian immigrants were planting out zinfandel to their Lodi
vineyards in the late 1800s, a second wave of pioneers from Italy was
laying out malbec vineyards in the gravelly, rocky soils at the base of
the mighty Andes in Mendoza, and engineering the complex system of
canals that even today direct snow melt to the sparse soils. Hundreds
of hectares of close-planted, high altitude, and decades-old malbec
vineyards yield small tonnages of intensely flavored and exotically
perfumed wines. You can experience these black, spicy, and rich wines
in Terra Rosa and Vale la Pena.
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