The Sill Family Vineyards

Tasting the 2017 très Rosé de Chardonnay from the Sonoma Coast

First of all, I have tasted hundreds of Rosé wines.  In fact, I went to a tasting a few months back and tasted over 30, can’t say there was 1 that I liked!  Well I guess you can say I broke my tasting streak, this is a Rosé to go out of you way to acquire a bottle, very elegant!  Superb! This is very special hand-crafted and unique Rosé, elegant, made with Sonoma Chardonnay (98%) adding a kiss of Rutherford Bench Napa Cabernet Sauvignon (2%), and in my opinion far better than the Rosé that herald from southeastern France where some of the best are produced.  I have never tasted anything like this previously.  Small production, grapes fermented and aged from French white oak wood staves from Allier, Nevers and Tronçais Haute Futaie forests, known for their sought after wood, with tighter … [Read more...]

Tasting the 2017 très CHARDONNAY from the Sonoma Coast

To begin, this was one of the most elegant Chardonnays I have tasted, and I had to look at the label to see if it really came from CA. In the future, I will conduct a blind tasting, with a few wine friends, putting the Sill against a $135 Puligny-Montrachet. I am predicting Sill will be hands-down winner at half the price…Stay tuned! This hand-crafted Chardonnay is barrel fermented and aged in mostly French oak (guessing a small amount of new oak, if any, as oak is not dominating the wine as most CA Chardonnays do) ending with some time in steel tanks which provides an elegant freshness to the wine. The terroir for this Chardonnay is perfect, cool wind swept Sonoma Coast Petaluma Gap, with clay like volcanic soils. Great depth of gentle fruit aromas with floral and a mineral character. … [Read more...]

Sill Family Vineyards Wins Gold at China Wine & Spirits Awards 2019

Sill Family Vineyards' très Rosé de Chardonnay just won a gold medal from China Wine and Spirits Awards (CWSA), the most influential wine and spirits award in the world. Considered the ultimate seal of approval in China, a CWSA award is comparable to an Academy Awards Oscar, with 100 CWSA judges carefully blind tasting over 6,000 competing wines from 58 countries.  Long renowned internationally as the biggest and most prestigious wine and spirits competition in China, CWSA Judges are the most powerful and qualified wine judges in China. Crafted as an industry first, Sill Family Vineyards' ultra-premium, limited production hand-crafted Chardonnay-based Rosé from the exceptional Sonoma Coast, along with a splash of the prestigious Georges de Latour Rutherford Cabernet Sauvignon grapes, … [Read more...]

SILL FAMILY VINEYARDS EARNS DOUBLE GOLD MEDAL AND USA WINE OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR 2018

HONG KONG, China Sill Family’s 2015 Atlas Peak Estate très Cabernet Sauvignon received the coveted DOUBLE gold medal award, and USA Wine of the Year at the 2018 CWSA Hong Kong International Wine Competition. The annual event showcases the finest worldwide vintages and is widely considered to be one of the most prestigious wine competitions in the world, with 100 judges blind tasting wines. This year, 4,600 wines were received from over 900 producers in 55 wine-producing countries, making it one of the most influential wine awards in the world. The crafting, processing and production is handled by winemaker, Igor Sill of Sill Family Vineyards, Atlas Peak Mountain Winery. Napa is well known around the world for its exceptional wines, and the appellation which he believes … [Read more...]