Muns
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Muns Vineyard Pinot Noirs win Best of Appellation Gold
Medals from AppellationAmerica.com.
Santa Cruz Mountains Pinot Noirs:A
Special Mountain Vineyard,
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 | Saturday, January 16,
11:00-5:00pm: Vino Locale for Passport Day. Ed and Mary will pour our Muns Vineyard
Pinots at Vino Locale in Palo Alto. Vino Locale is a European-inspired
enoteca and gallery in Palo Alto in an historic old Victorian just off of
University Avenue - very warm and inviting. Owner Randy Robinson
is a long-time proponent of the Slow Food movement, and Vino Locale reflects
his support of local food, wine and art. Please join us!
Vino Locale is also a wine shop and you can buy our Muns Vineyard Pinots there
any time. Vino Locale 431 Kipling Street Palo Alto 650-328-0450 |
| Tuesday, January 19, 5:00-7:00pm: Tasting Room Tuesday at
California Cafe, Los Gatos. We will be pouring our wine at this
weekly tasting featuring local wineries. Chef Taylor Boudreaux pairs the
wine with delectable appetizers! $15 per person, and $10 will be applied to
your check if you stay for dinner. |
| Tuesday, February 9,
5:00-7:00pm: Tasting Room Tuesday at
The Fairmont Hotel, San Jose.
Muns Vineyard is kicking off a series of wine tastings in the hotel lobby
featuring Santa Cruz Mountains wineries. Mary will be pouring a vertical of
our Pinots. Come and relax after work with some great wine, good food from the
lobby menu, and music. Tasting fee applies. |
| Sunday, March 28, 2:00-5:00pm:
Pinot Paradise, Grand Cruz Tasting at the Villa Ragusa Conference Center
in Campbell. Ed and Mary will pour our Muns Vineyard Pinots for the first
time this year at this annual celebration of Santa Cruz Mountains Pinot Noirs.
Tickets are available from the
SCMWA. |
| Muns Vineyard Pinots are featured in a
story in the Santa Cruz
Sentinel, with recipes from local vintners - including Mary's now famous
recipe for pan-roasted Brussels sprouts, that pairs deliciously with our 2004
and 2005 Pinot Noirs. |
| Ham Radio Creates a Vineyard! - Ed is quoted in the 17
October 2009 article in the Los Gatos Weekly-Times,
"Amateur Radio Operators on Front Lines During Loma Prieta Quake".
Although Ed wasn't one of the active hams helping with that local disaster,
the article notes that the property that eventually became the current Muns
Vineyard was selected for ham radio purposes by Ed. The first day of
land clearing for the home occurred on 17 October, 1989, the day of the
destructive Loma Prieta Earthquake, whose epicenter was just five miles south
of the property. |
| Read about
Muns Vineyard in the Santa Cruz Sentinel (September 12, 2009), in
an article about the 2009 harvest. It includes a number of photos of
harvest at Muns Vineyard. |
| Read about
Muns Vineyard in the San Jose Mercury News. Laurie Daniel,
about Pinot Paradise: "The 2006 Muns Vineyard Pinot Noir ($40) is dark and spicy, with black cherry,
clove, cola, a hint of sage and firm structure." |
| Read about
Muns Vineyard in
the March 15 issue of the Prince of Pinot's PinotFile newsletter.
The Prince reviews our 2004, 2005, 2006 and as yet unreleased 2007 Pinots.
About the 2007, the Prince says, "A consistent Muns Vineyard style is beginning to evolve with this wine which shows similarities in structure and character to the 2006 vintage. This wine exhibits admirable complexity with nicely spiced red and black fruits, herbs, forest floor and mocha. There are still tannins to shed, but these are ripe and fine and will integrate nicely with a little more bottle age. The acidity is spot on. This should prove to be a very stellar wine. (Note: this wine can be purchased now at the futures price of $32 which makes it a good value)." |
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W.M. Vinci,
inspired by Muns Vineyard --------------
Well-traveled Pinot ... enjoyed on a sailboat in Croatia!
(Thanks, Dave Aslin, for purchasing at Gene's Market
in Saratoga and taking to the Mediterranean for vacation.)
2004 120 cases produced. Our first bottling, this wine shows fresh, bright fruit, characteristic of the new vineyard. This wine continues to develop beautifully in the bottle, flavors melding and deepening. Delicious! $40
| Gold Medal, Appellation America 'Best of Appellation' Award |
2005 180 cases produced and released in March 2007. $40
| 91 Points, Wine Enthusiast |
| Gold Medal, Appellation America 'Best of Appellation' Award |
2006 360 cases produced and released in June 2008. $40
| Gold Medal, Appellation America 'Best of Appellation' Award |
2007 150 cases produced and released in Fall 2009. $40
2007 70 cases produced and released in June 2008. $15
2008 40 cases produced and released in June 2009. $18
We grow premium Santa Cruz Mountains Pinot Noir with exquisite attention to quality so as to produce the very finest wine. The wines we produce reflect our high standards in the vineyard, as well as one of the best locations for growing Pinot Noir in the Santa Cruz Mountains, a prime growing region for this luscious winegrape. The first commercial vintage was in 2003 based on a half-ton harvest. Soquel Vineyards blended half of the wine into a Santa Cruz Mountains Pinot Noir and the other half was bottled under the Muns Vineyard label. Grape tonnage increased rapidly in succeeding years:
2004: About four tons were harvested from four acres and again the wine was produced by Soquel Vineyards. 125 cases were produced as a Muns Vineyard designate under the Soquel Vineyards label and another 125 cases under the Muns Vineyard label.
2005: Almost twelve tons were harvested from six acres with five tons going into the Soquel Vineyards label as a Muns Vineyard designated wine. The other seven tons went into a Muns Vineyard designate wine on three labels produced by Silver Mountain Vineyards: Silver Mountain Vineyards, Sonnet Wine Cellars and Muns Vineyard. Tony Craig, of Dave Bruce fame, made these three wines.
2006: Nearly 24 tons were harvested from seven acres with 10 tons going to Soquel Vineyards and 14 tons crushed at Silver Mountain Vineyards for the same three labels as in 2005. This was an abnormally large yield, as it was for many California vineyards, due to abundant winter rains that produced record cluster sizes.
2007: Fruit set this season was been superb, but nature presented some challenges. Two nights in April produced 25 degree temperatures a large low area of the vineyard where over a acre of fruit and even some vines were lost. Later in the season, dehydration further reduced the crop. Over 16 tons were harvested on 4-6 September all going to Silver Mountain Vineyards for production under three labels: their own, Sonnet Wine Cellars and Muns Vineyard.
2008: This is the first year all vineyard blocks are producing--twelve acres of Pinot Noir and one acre of Syrah. Pinot Noir was harvested from 29 August to 2 September, our earliest. The yield is our lowest ever at around 1.5 ton/acre. Vineyards across the state are reporting much lower cluster weights, so while it looks like there is a lot of fruit, there really isn't. 3 tons of Syrah was harvested the third week of September.
2009: This looks like 2006 in terms of yield. With the entire vineyard now producing, we estimate 30+ tons of Pinot Noir and 3+ tons of Syrah. The Pinot should harvest in mid-September with the Syrah ready at the end of September.
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