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Green & Red Vineyard California, USA |
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WINERY FOUNDED: 1977
APPELLATION: Napa Valley - "Chiles Valley District"
VINEYARDS: 31 Acres estate vineyards:
"Chiles Mill" [1,000 ft elevation] 7 acres
"Catacula" [1,400 ft elevation] 9 acres
"Greeg Mountain" [1,700 ft elevation] 15 acres
Owners: Pam and Jay Heminway
Green & Red Vineyard, named for its red iron soils veined with green serpentine, is located in the steep hills on the east side of Napa Valley. The planting was started in 1972 on ground originally in vineyards in the 1890's. The vineyards are a small percentage of the 200-acre property, which ranges in elevation from 900 to 2,000 feet. Our separate vineyards are at different elevations with different exposures.
Green & Red Vineyard directs its farming practices to emphasize the particularity of the grapes from this many faceted piece of earth. Each vineyard receives different amounts of water determined by soil texture, depth and exposure encouraging root depth through varying soil strata. A no till native cover crop is mowed minimizing erosion. In row weeds are controlled mechanically and manually. The vines are cropped to 3 tons to the acre. Selective leaf pulling and cluster thinning focus intensity in the fruit.
OUR LABEL is adapted from a wine chalice painted by Exekias in the 6th century B.C. depicting the Homeric "Hymn to Dionysus" wherein he is abducted by pirates. Against the better advice of the helmsman, who recognized the god of wine, the pirates tried to bind Dionysus, whereupon he changed into a raging lion. The ship's hull filled with wine. A grapevine entwined the mast from which clusters were born. The sailors, terrified, jumped overboard and were instantly metamorphosized into dolphins, The helmsman, who had shown proper respect to the god, was spared.
"...wine broke out, babbling,
bubbling over their speedy black ship,
it was sweet, it was fragrant,
its odor was divine.
Every sailor who saw it
was terrified.
Suddenly,
a vine sprang up,
on each side,
to the very top of the sail.
And grapes, all over,
clung to it...
...They all jumped ship
into the sea, they jumped
into the divine sea.
They became dolphins."
Translated by
Charles Boer
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Website: http://www.greenandred.com |
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