Santa Cruz Mountain Vineyard THRU 1/31: Santa Cruz Mtns Pinot, Cab & Zin + Portuguese & Spanish varieties - Discounted Samplers - 20ish year old verticals - FREE SHIPPING
Celebrating our 50th year this year!!
You’ve probably had Pinot Noir & Cab Sauv from the Santa Cruz Mtns, but how about adding a Durif & Zinfandel to those for a discounted 4 pack tour of the AVA!
We also specialize in less-know Iberian varieties - 2 discounted packs with those, including a special Sparkling Souzão
We are also offering a couple of roughly 20 year old Library verticals.
We’ve been around since 1975 making food friendly, cellar-worthy wines from the Santa Cruz Mountains - no wine here is over 14% alcohol. Below is a listing of our offerings and deals for the day, followed by a bit of our history and a get-to-know-us. Thank you so much for checking us out.
FREE SHIPPING within the US except to the following states: AK, AL, AR, CT, DE, HI, MI, MS, MT, NJ, RI, SD, VA, UT
(We actually CAN ship to AK and HI, but it’s very expensive so the free shipping offer doesn’t apply.)
Our Berserker Day Offers!
Please use code BD16 for free shipping for those shipping outside of CA. For those shipping within CA, free shipping will apply automatically.
To shop all our Berserker Day offers (except for the 2 library offers above), please visit our special Berserker deals only website HERE
Santa Cruz Mountains Four Pack - $145 (discounted from $181)
- This 4 pack lets you experience classic French varieties that showcase why this area produces some of the finest wines in the world.
- 2017 Branciforte Creek Pinot Noir - Old-school French-style Pinot Noir with bright fruit, spice, and earth. 100% Pommard Clone. 13.2% ABV
- 2021 Zayante Zinfandel - Old school Zin. Opposite of today’s jammy, oaky style. Deep varietal fruit & spice with intriguing darker elements. Only 13.2% alcohol!
- 2018 Luchessi Cabernet Sauvignon - Planted in 1981, big rustic cab from rugged old vines. 13.1% ABV
- 2021 Saveria Durif - A very rare variety in the Santa Cruz Mountains - Wine Club release - not in stores! 12.0% ABV
- order Here
Quinta Cruz Iberian Varietals Four Pack - $99
- A four pack of unique Spanish and Portuguese Varieties grown in California on our sister brand, Quinta Cruz - the first brand in the U.S. to exclusively feature Iberian varieties grown in CA.
- 2021 Arinto - Lively acidity, strong minerality, and notes of apple, lime, and lemon. Arinto is one of the few white wines with the ability to age! 12.0% ABV
- 2019 Graciano - A low-yielding, aromatic, and intensely flavored variety that typically provides spice, exotic aromas, and acidity.
- 2018 Castelão - One of the most planted varieties in Portugal that you’ve never heard of! Nuanced, complex and subtle like a good PInot Noir but tastes nothing like a Pinot Noir - truly unique.
- 2018 Souzão - Aromas and flavors like nothing you have ever had before - very deep berries, earth, tar, anise, floral elements, and other subtle aromatics.
- order Here
A Portuguese food feast
Still & Sparkling Souzão Four Pack - $120 (discounted from $144)
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A sampler of our special project of making a Méthode Champenoise sparkling wine from the very dark red Souzão grape from Portugal. The sparkling version of Souzão is a tradition in the Vinho Verde region of Portugal. Think of it like a dry Lambrusco from Bologna, Italy - Goes great with salty, fatty cured meats and rich cheeses.
- 2017 Souzão - Still wine version of this very pigmented and complex variety - 2 bottles
- 2019 Sparkling Souzão - Dark red, dry, slightly tannic, exotically fruity and with bubbles! - 2 bottles
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Luchessi Cabernet Sauvignon Vertical 2 Pack: 2017 & 2018 vintages - $120
- We’d argue that the Santa Cruz Mountains makes some of the best Cabernet in the New World! Luchessi Vineyard is right next to the famous Montebello Ridge area and is an incredibly steep and rugged vineyard with dry-farmed, head-trained vines. It produces a rich and rugged Cab that stands up to hearty foods and also cellars for decades. We are honored to work with this vineyard and are excited to share a slightly older vintage that can certainly age much, much longer (or be enjoyed now!). This bundle includes our 2017 and 2018 vintages!
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Luchessi Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon
Grand Cru Cabernet Sauvignon Two Pack - $250 (discounted from $300) A highly allocated new project!
In our almost five decades of making Cabernet Sauvignon from the Santa Cruz Mountains, there are vineyards we work with planted in the 1970s that have what we believe to be the equivalent of Grand Cru status. We made very limited quantities of these wines and have gone to great effort to showcase the unique character of these historic sites. Aged in custom barrels made only for us just for this project.
- 2017 Bates Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon - Originally planted 1972 and is at the very southern end of the Santa Cruz Mountains AVA. We are still enjoying the 1978 from this vineyard!
- 2017 Staiger Cabernet Sauvignon - Planted on a steep hillside above Boulder Creek by Paul and Majorie Staiger in 1973. They passed it to us when they retired from winemaking and we are extremely honored to work with this historic vineyard.
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Preview Day special Library Wine Vertical offers:
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Branciforte Creek Pinot Library Vertical: 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - Three Pack - $350
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100% Pommard clone Pinot Noir made in a very old-world style from the cool climate Santa Cruz Mountains AVA. Full of flavor - rich spice, bright red cherries, damp earth, tart acidity, and layers of darker fruit. These wines can cellar for 40 odd years and are excellent with food. Santa Cruz Mountains Pinot Noir is what we were founded for!
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McDowell Durif Library Vertical: 2003, 2004 & 2005 - 3 Pack - $180
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Durif - McDowell Valley Vineyard - McDowell Valley AVA - Mendocino County
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We worked with these vines planted in 1948 from this historic vineyard from 2003 until its sale in 2013. We always labeled ours with the correct French name for what almost everyone else in California calls “Petite SIrah”. But Petite Sirah is an incorrect arbitrary name invented for marketing and we’ve been just iconoclastic enough to have had a Durif on our brand since 1977! This vertical represents around 2 decades of aging in the bottle and showcases 3 vintages that have aged beautifully and are basically ready to drink now. They will surprise you by how youthful they still seem.
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS TO PURCHASE THE TWO ABOVE PREVIEW DAY LIBRARY OFFERS:
Since these library wines are part of my personal cellar and not the current winery business, the payment interaction won’t be executed through a web link but by a follow-up personal exchange between us by phone and/or email. The same shipping states apply to this offer, and I will extend the Berserker Day free shipping on these items as well.
To purchase, simply send me an email with what you desire and your contact information. I will follow up with you. I will keep track of the order of responses and allot the sales accordingly. Needless to say, quantities of these items are very limited and I’ll fulfill the sales in the order I receive them. jeff@santacruzmountainvineyard.com
Comment when you purchase and get entered to win a bonus bottle!
(We tend to be generous and will award more than one winnner if sales go well!)
The original winery library on Jarvis Road
Other Library Wines Available!
More info
Through the years we have intentionally stashed away multiple cases of each release we thought would improve with age.
Some of the earliest wines we sold a long time ago now, but we had four pallets (over 200 cases) of what I’ll call “mid-aged” wines, all wrapped up and aging. We kept thinking these are too young to release, but we’ve had to finally admit that wines from the late 1990’s through the first decade of the 2000’s are actually mostly over 20 years old. So it’s time.
There are too many to list here, and in some cases there are only a few bottles available. But we are happy to send you a list of the wines, the prices and how sales and pick-up of the wines can work. If interested, send us an email at info@santacruzmountainvineyard.com.
Winery History
Santa Cruz Mountain Vineyard was founded in 1974 by a man named Ken Burnap. He had a passion for Pinot Noir that led him on a journey to discover the best location in California to produce Pinot Noir that would be equal to that of Burgundy. After a lot of searching, he settled on the Santa Cruz Mountains. When he discovered that his ideal Pinot location was a plot of land currently for sale, he couldn’t resist (decision making aided by a bottle of celebratory Champagne). In 1975, Santa Cruz Mountain Vineyard’s first vintage of Estate Vineyard Pinot Noir was released (a wine that is still drinking beautifully out of our cellar today). In 1979 Ken hired our current winemaker, Jeff Emery (age 20 at the time), to help with cellar work and vineyard management. An old school apprenticeship was established and Ken and Jeff worked together for 25 years until Ken’s retirement. At that point, Jeff found he couldn’t possibly get a “real job”, thus he took over the brand in 2004.
___________Founder Ken Burnap 1981 ___________ and Jeff Emery punching the cap c. 1995
Join Our Wine Club! Wine Club — Santa Cruz Mountain Vineyard
Wine Club Info
Our wine club is all about bringing you small lots of very interesting wines, club shipments are always red! Members get 15% off every purchase, two free tastings every time they stop by the winery, exclusive access to release parties (free!) and more! On top of all this, members get a one time 25% off discount on any purchase when they sign up. For more info on our wine club, go here.
