This is the good stuff. Don’t miss our 50% discount on estate grown Tempranillo from Twisted Oak Winery!
We’re delighted to welcome Twisted Oak Winery to our Insider Deals, especially when we they’ve brought a savory Tempranillo that is both true to the variety and has a little age on it (can you say Rioja?).
The winery is based in the Sierra Foothills of California, an area home to some amazing values on delicious wines (just ask our friends at Scott Harvey or Andis Wines), and this wine hits all the right notes. Here’s a bit of history of how it came to be:
We’re often asked what the background of Twisted Oak is, to which we invariably reply, “The Sierra Nevada, of course!” If we are pressed further, we are forced to admit that Twisted Oak Winery is the culmination of a delusion, er, vision by Jeff and Mary Stai. The vision was of a terroir based winery making superior, hand crafted, yummy wines, and then having more Twisted fun than anyone in the industry selling them.
Jeff and Mary found 120 acres just outside Murphys in the Sierra Foothills at nearly 2000 feet elevation. It is there that they planted 10 acres of vineyards in Tempranillo, Grenache, Graciano, and Touriga Naçional to take advantage of the continental Mediterranean soil types and climate. It is on top of this property, with an amazing view of the Sierra, where the state-of-the-art, no-pumpover, four-level gravity flow winery was
This Article was originally published on The Reverse Wine Snob
