6th Annual Festival of Tulips, March 27th! & Award Winners for the 2010 SF Chronicle Wine Competition

We are excited to announce the 6th Annual Festival of Tulips at our Nice Winery. March 27th is the big day starting at 12pm and going until 5pm. Tickets are just $35 in advance and $40 at the door. Wine, food, music and
tulips, tulips, tulips!
• Over 30,000 Tulips planted!
• Enjoy Wine Tasting
• Get to know our winery team and production process through our winery tours.
• Be the first to sample vintages still in the barrel!
• Shake your groove thang to LIVE Music by Bill Noteman &The Rockets.
• Tasty hors d'oeuvres by Lindy's Quality Catering.
• Event is limited to only 250 participants.
Get your tickets TODAY!

Check out the News!

Six of our wines submitted to the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition were winners!
• 2008 Tracy Hills Merlot - GOLD MEDAL (to be released in May 2010)
• 2008 Tracy Hills Syrah - SILVER MEDAL (to be released in February 2010)
• 2006 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon - SILVER MEDAL (to be released in May 2010)
• 2006 Tracy Hills Cabernet Sauvignon - SILVER MEDAL (Sold Out)
• 2007 Red Hills Zinfandel - BRONZE MEDAL (Currently Avaialble)
• 2008 Tracy Hills Chardonnay - BRONZE MEDAL (Sold Out)

"Where the experience, atmosphere and wines will keep you coming back time and again."

Our winery produces world-class wines from Lake County grapes and our estate vineyards in Pope Valley and Mount Oso. The Brown family has restored the historic Bartlett Springs mineral water bottling facility into a state-of-the-art winery, tasting room, and Visitor Center. Enjoy our award-winning, handcrafted wines, stroll through one of Northern California’s most stunning gardens, tour the winery, or relax while enjoying the beauty of Lake County. Our intimate tasting room has a unique selection of gifts and wine accessories to complete the wine tasting experience. During spring, the gardens feature more than 30,000 tulips in bloom. During the last week of March these tulips are showcased through our Annual Festival of Tulips! A day of wine, food, music, winery tours, and tulips, tulips, tulips! Tulip Hill Winery is not to be missed on your wine tasting adventure! If you are in the southern California area, you can get a taste at our tasting room in Rancho Mirage.

Since we control everything from vine to bottle... we are able to create a handcrafted product at an amazing price point. Our wines are made in a boutique style in small lot production. Our largest fermentation tank is only 6,300 gallons and we taste all of our lots and blend them to create our different vintages with a focus on balanced, approachable wines true to their varietal character, letting the fruit do all the talking.

09/30/09 - 6:00pm - Loretta Byrne, COO

Nice Winery - Harvest Up-date! The Chardonnay was higher brix than last year and is now throwing delightful and interesting fruit flavors [pear, banana, citrus] very nice! The fruit was all still cold and arrived very early, 5:30-6:00am. Went directly to the press and was fermented cool, about 55 degrees. We have chilled it even further to about 50 degrees to achieve about 1 brix per day.

We barreled down a portion to finish fermentation in the barrel and the cellar smells spectacular! There is a pervasive 'sizzle' in the cellar also from the fermentation bungs and it is just cooking!
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