January thirteenth – Kale Anderson holds the distinguished honor of being one of many youngest winemakers in historical past to earn 100 pts from Robert M. Parker, Jr. He joined the Duncan Peak Vineyards model as consulting winemaker in 2021 when the Duncan Peak vineyards relaunched after practically a decade of dormancy. Kale has made wine for famend wineries for over 20 years in Napa and Sonoma. Kale’s repertoire consists of working with the manufacturers J Vineyard, Colgin Cellars, Cliff lede Vineyards, Terra Valentine Vineyard, Pahlmeyer Vineyard, and his personal model Kale Wines.
In 2021 the Chinese language-American brother-sister duo, Max Luo and Jane Jiang, relaunched the Duncan Peak Vineyards model. With a deal with ultra-premium and unique wines, this boutique vineyard solely makes 100 to 300 instances a yr.
“Relaunching a model is difficult, so we’re grateful to have somebody come into this place who has intensive experiences and shares in our imaginative and prescient,” mentioned the Proprietor of Duncan Peak Vineyards, Jane Jiang, “We farm the land with a sustainable and balanced method. The wines we make specific the true terroir portfolio and signify the blood, sweat, and tears of the hardworking people of the Duncan Peak workforce.”
Over the previous few years, Duncan Peak centered on enhancing its farming strategies and has efficiently transformed the winery to a CCOF natural licensed. The workforce works carefully with natural specialists to allow their farming to advertise and profit a residing, respiration ecosystem. Proprietor Max Lou describes the general method of Duncan Peak as a “partnership” with nature, saying, “We try to cut back greenhouse fuel emissions from our practices. We use sheep for grazing our land and offering pure fertilizer, and our irrigation system makes use of gravity, not electrical energy, to water our vineyards.”
Duncan Peak Winery’s inaugural classic, a 90/10 pink mix of Cabernet Sauvignon and Petite Sirah, crafted by Kale Anderson, will likely be launched in 2023/2024. “2021 had its challenges, however the wine high quality was extraordinary,” mentioned Anderson. “The drought days and confused circumstances produced wine concurrently dense and chic. The ensuing berries have been smaller however closely concentrated with character. Our 2021 classic fantastically displays that complexity within the wine.”
