About Us
What You Want To Know: QUICKLY
Black Cordon Vineyards is a very small winery in Napa Valley. We produce a 'Napa Valley' Cabernet Sauvignon and Barrel Selection, Vineyard Designate Cabernets. We also produce a true Sonoma Coast Chardonnay and an Anderson Valley Pinot Noir. Our production of each and every wine is miniscule. In our quest to bottle great, not just good wines, we attend to every fine detail in the vineyard and in our winemaking with a hands on and completely involved style. We are old school in everything we do including our desire to interact with our customers personally and to avoid the internet as best we can. So please come and visit us or contact us via phone or email and we will do what it takes to introduce you to our wines.
We have folded our Sixteen by Twenty winery into Black Cordon Vineyards here on this website and in how we make wines available to our Club members. Everything we do in the vineyards and in the winemaking is identical in detail for both labels so if we say it about one we mean it for both. Vineyard source and vineyard personality are the only distinguishing differences between the two.
We do not have an online store any longer. Our winemaking and those that purchase the wines we create are too important to us to trust to the impersonal online experience. We are not in a hurry to sell large volumes of wine...we are proud of our wines and we desire to have them play an important part in your life. Contact us directly, ask some questions, tell us what you want or what you need and we'll get it done. 707-815-4662 or info@blackcordon.com
Wine Lovers Now Winegrowers
Karen and David...that's us the winegrowers...were from our early twenties deep into wine, and the food and people that surrounded it. From our home in the Midwest we visited Napa Valley and the North Coast wine regions constantly. Finally the lure of the life we wanted to live in Napa was too strong so we hung up our careers and moved to the valley. That was 2004 and after all these years we both still remember the very first decision we made...'we will never bottle a wine that we are not proud of.' We've had a lot of help over the years in keeping that promise from some very talented people...originally and for many years the team of Paul Hobbs and Julian Gonzalez. Julian continues on with us today in our own winery as winemaker and the very talented force that has driven the Black Cordon Vineyards style from the beginning.
We Are A Very Small Producer and We Commit To Staying That Way Daily
Excellence in Winegrowing takes vigilance and attention to detail. We found out once we got started that small producers have more options to manage that detail and to produce wines of the best quality, character and complexity. Our desire to stay small is because we are people who want to always do our best and that means we want our wines to be as good as they can be... Small lot fermentation instead of large quantity tanks will always produce a superior wine; especially Cabernet Sauvignon. Barrel fermentation for excellent Chardonnay is a must. These are just a few of the small winery advantages.
Two Wine Labels...One Winery...One Desire
We started two separate wine labels...Black Cordon Vineyards and Sixteen by Twenty Wines, at the same time. All the growing and winemaking is the same...the winery is the same...and the winemaker is the same. Our wine loving fans kept saying 'come on, you're one big happy family so why not act like it' They are right, and we are, so here all of our wines are finally in one place. Cheers!
Some Information About Our Wine Clubs
A Lot More Wines To Choose From!
As a Wine Club Member you have access to all of the wines that we produce. This includes our limited production Vineyard Designate wines and a full slate of past vintages held at the winery exclusively for our Club members. What makes our Club different from others is that you only get the wines you want because you do the selecting (assisted by us if you want) and there is never an auto-shipment. You are in control and you select exactly the wines and quantities you want from a broad list of available selections. We connect twice a year, in spring and autumn, to talk wine and to ship to you your hand picked selections. By far the majority of members are people that we have met when they visited us for a wine tasting in Napa Valley. We would love to meet you the same way...but if you would like to know more about our Clubs please reach out to us and we'll show you what is possible. info@blackcordon.com
The Wines
- "Napa Valley" Cabernet Sauvignon — a combination of barrels of wine produced from grapes grown in our mountain vineyards, in the appellations of Howell Mountain, Mount Veeder, Atlas Peak and Coombsville.
- Barrel Selection Vineyard Designate Cabernets — These one or two barrel limited production wines are from personally selected barrels that are of special character and quality that have risen above all the other wines from that vintage.
- Anderson Valley Pinot Noir — Burgundian of course. We consider Anderson Valley to be one of the great Pinot Noir regions in the world and this personally selected vineyard in Boonville is one of the best.
- Sonoma Coast Chardonnay — we appreciate vineyard-driven, terroir-expressive wines in the Burgundian style with crisp, clean layers of complexity and intriguing fruit balanced with tingling minerality. So that is what we produce.
- Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir — Burgundian in style. Produced from another outstanding growing region for Pinot Noir, out along the cold Pacific.
Send Us A Message...We Read Them All.
We take all of our interaction with our customers personally...whether you're a Wine Club Member or someone who is new to our wines. Please contact us directly with any questions or requests and as soon as we are in from the vineyard or back from the winery we will answer your email. If you're interested in knowing more about our Wine Clubs just say 'send me some wine club information' in the message box and we'll simply send you the details...no hard sell, no nagging!
4155 Dry Creek Road, Napa, California 94558
NOTE ON SHIPPING: All orders will be shipped in a Styro Pak Shipper. We monitor the weather between Napa and your destination to make certain that we only ship during optimal weather...that means we may hold your shipment until it is safe to send. We ship on Monday and Tuesday via UPS and it is a federal law that an adult signature is required at delivery. Unfortunately we are currently unable to ship to New Hampshire and Utah.
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