Grape Source: Primarily Sonoma and Mendocino Counties
Color: Dark Ruby Purple
Aging Potential: Best within 1-3 years

Due to the continued high demand of Old Vine Red across the country and in order to maintain as consistent a supply as possible, we will no longer be selling Old Vine Red on our website. We would like to stress how much we appreciate the support we’ve had on Old Vine Red and we have made this decision in an effort to keep as many markets, and consequently people, in stock as possible. To insure that you will be well supplied by your local retailers, please let us know if you have any trouble at all finding Old Vine Red in your area and we will immediately find you a local outlet or maintain your supply.

Appellation:

The 2006 Petite Sirah is 100% Alexander Valley appellation and 100% estate grown. In addition to the 76% Petite Sirah, this blend is comprised of 22% Syrah and 2% Viognier.

Almost opaque in color, the 2006 Petite Sirah exhibits a broad, rich nose of blueberries, sweet toasty oak, and mineral notes. It is abundantly lush, mouth-filling, and weighty on the palate. Typical of the vintage, it exhibits broad, fruit-forward flavors with pleasing fruit tannins. This wine begs for rich grilled or barbeque pork or beef.

Grape Source: Alexander Valley (Sonoma County)
Color: Dark Ruby
Oak Aging: 12 months French Oak
Aging Potential: 5-8 years

Appellation:

Cassis, graphite, currant, blackberry and toasty oak flavors and aromas abound in this elegant, seamless and lush offering. The flavors float on the palate like velvet and the mild fruit tannins on the finish promise some extended aging potential. While hard to resist drinking now, this wine from a vintage of lush early maturing wines should last 5-8 years.

Grape Source: Alexander Valley, (Sonoma County)
Color: Dark Ruby
Oak Aging: 16 months French Oak
Aging Potential: 5-10 years

Appellation:

The 2007 Zinfandel was a light cropped small berried year, producing great ripe grape flavored wines exhibiting dense, solid black fruited aromas. A sharp core of berry fruit drives this full bodied, focused, blackberry flavored zin with a long finish. This wine will integrate its components and come to full show in 3-5 years.

Grape Source: Alexander Valley, (Sonoma County)
Color: Dark Ruby
Oak aging: 16 months French Oak
Aging potential: 5-10 years

Appellation:

Montepulciano is a very late ripener, usually picked here in early November. The 2004 ripened earlier and the sugars were higher. The wine is all around bigger and rounder with a richer mouth and feel. Aromas are curiously similar to the leaner, elegant 2003, earth, tar, licorice and dried herbs. The 2004 Emilia’s Cuvée is broad, dense and lush, a bit jammy on the palate, and the flavors hang to a lengthy finish.

Grape Source: Mendocino (Mendocino County) California
Color: Medium Red Ruby
Oak Aging: Seasoned French
Aging Potential: 3-5 years

Appellation:

If this wine were any denser it would be a solid. Almost black in color, there is a deep nose of graphite, charcoal, and ripe black fruit as well as a layered brooding dark fruit mixture, with vanilla and toasty oak overtones.

This wine will pay great dividends to cellar time and will last up to and improve over the next 15 years.

Grape Source: Alexander Valley, (Sonoma County)
Color: Dark Ruby
Oak aging: 18 months, primarily French oak
Aging potential: up to 15 years

Since his first release in 1978, Chris’s greatest accomplishment and passion has been his four sons. His second greatest accomplishment has been his ability to produce a product of incredible consistency both in quality and price with relatively complete anonymity.

The wines of Marietta Cellars are a personification of Chris Bilbro, his outlook on life, and his general lifestyle. No wine is complete on its own; pleasurable pursuits such as cooking, fishing, hunting, gardening, and entertaining add balance to wine, as they do to life.

To this day, no wine gets bottled without Chris’s approval and no vineyard row goes more than a week without Chris riding his ATV through it.

Handling the majority of the day to day operations are Chris’s three eldest sons, Jake, Scot, and Sam. Brothers by blood and best friends by choice, Jake, Scot, and Sam are all dedicated to the dream that Chris started in 1978.