We are often asked, what are some wineries which should probably be included in your luxury gift baskets, but aren’t yet there? One of the easiest examples of this type of outstanding winery is Solitude Wines from the Carneros AVA (which incidently, is one of the few AVA’s to technically exist in both Sonoma County and Napa Valley). Opened by Richard Litsch who does a bit of everything at the winery including making the wine (read winemaker) and selling the wine (read Proprietor). He makes around two thousand cases of wine each and every year from this small, upscale winery. One of our favorite wines is his Sangiacomo Vineyard Chardonnay which has varied from being his only production wine, to one of the few he produces. Not surprisingly given our tasting of other Pinot Noir’s from that vineyard, he plans to feature a Sangiacomo Vineyard Pinot Noir at some point in the future.
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