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Oakstone Winery
California, the most populous state of the United States, located on the Pacific coast of North America is bordered by Oregon, Nevada, Arizona and Mexico. The four largest cities are Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose and San Francisco. California is also the home of and wine producing regions such as Santa Barbara and Northern California's Wine Country.
Oakstone Winery is located in the new Fair Play American Viticultural Area, where rolling hillsides emphasize the warm days and cool nights that produce grapes and wines of unusual intensity. The 2500 foot elevation of Fair Play combines with deep, rich decomposed granite soils to add strength and complexity to the wines. John and Susan Smith are the owners of the Oakstone Winery. Their wines include Viognier, Zinfandel, Sangiovese, Syrah and a selection of varietal Ports. Slug Gulch Red, a non-vintage, very affordable red table wine, has achieved cult status with customers who have consistently found it to be the best mediocre red wine in the area.
Oakstone Winery offers different types of wine such as El Dorado Apple Wine, Slug Gulch Red, Murrill Vineyard Sangiovese, Estate De Cascabel Merlot, Estate Cabernet Sauvignon, De Cascabel Vineyard, Syrah, Boa Vista Vineyard, Late Harvest Zinfandel and Murrill Vineyard. Small lots of specialty wines are made each year in response to the annual variations in weather and grape crop from the eighteen acres of estate grapes. The tasting room is surrounded by elegant, mature estate vines, and features a tasting bar. Vineyards include small plots of Charbono, Pinot Gris, Malbec, and Petit Verdot, with the last two being combined with the three Bordeaux varieties already in production to allow unique Meritage blends each year.
The goal of Oakstone Winery winemaking program is to create wines of uncompromising quality with optimum flavor and aromatic components that reflect the unique characteristics of the vineyards from which they come.
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