Uncorking a New Era: Gracianna Winery's Bold Spring Vintages Spark a Revolution
Award-winning Napa Valley Cabernet and a new Merlot sets the stage for a Spring like no other in Sonoma County
HEALDSBURG, Calif., March 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- As 2024 fades into 2025 Gracianna Winery of Sonoma County has plenty to be thankful for. The last few months have delivered not only tremendous results from the Fall Sonoma County Harvest Fair wine competition where Gracianna's 2023 Westside Reserve Pinot Noir was named Best of Show – Red!
Also, announced shortly thereafter was a Best of Class for the 2023 Gracianna Mercedes Riverblock Estate Pinot Noir at the 2024 Dan Berger's International Wine Competition, which also took home Double Gold at the 2024 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition.
As Gracianna Winery heads into Spring and the April 1st seasonal reopening of the Gracianna Tasting Room and Tasting Terrace on the Miracle Mile of Westside Road, it's time to say hello to another classic and collectable in their long lineage of distinguished wines: the 2021 Gracianna Stagecoach Vineyard® Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon.
With its upcoming Spring release—and already a Gold Medal winner at both the 2024 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition and the 2024 Sommeliers Choice Awards—the 93-point wine is described as "Deep, dark [in] color with robust black cherry, blackberry, and blueberry fruits, layered with coffee, mint, herbs, tobacco, and vanilla, finishing full-bodied and complex." (Sommeliers Choice Awards)
Stagecoach Vineyard in Napa Valley, California, is named for the stagecoach that ran through the property between Oakville and Monticello in the 19th century. In 2019 Gracianna introduced their first Stagecoach Vineyard® Cabernet Sauvignon to phenomenal accolades, marrying one of the finest and most iconic vineyards in Napa Valley with one of the most successful Russian River Valley Pinot Noir houses.
Fittingly, Stagecoach Vineyard is the largest contiguous planting of vines in Napa Valley. It's a 1300-acre property on which more than 600 acres are under vine. Planting this steep hilly land that overlooks Oakville and Yountville in the Napa Valley appellation required removing millions of pounds of volcanic rock to make way for planting grapevines. Just putting vines into this hallowed ground, filled with subterranean secrets, and blessed with an extreme diurnal shift of night to daytime temperatures, was a labor of love and determination.
With an average daytime high temperature of around 88° degrees during the growing season, the nocturnal temperatures drop to around 55° degrees, which slows sugar accumulation and leads to long slow ripening. Stagecoach Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon is generally not harvested until late October.
Such a unique climate and setting, along with meticulous hand-farming, creates highly sought-after fruit, with iconic Napa wineries sourcing from the vineyard year after year, and many more wishing they could do so. Bottom line: Gracianna has successfully created one of the best-value award-winning Stagecoach Vineyard® Cabernets made in the United States.
Another groundbreaking wine in the Gracianna Spring 2025 line up is the 2023 Lutèce Merlot. This Merlot, Gracianna's first foray into this varietal, has already garnered Gold and Double Gold medals from the 2025 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition and the 2024 Sonoma County Harvest Fair.
Gracianna Lasaga, co-owner Trini Amador's French Basque great grandmother's dream was to come to America from the Pyrenees. Lutèce is the medieval name for Paris and Paris was the first step for Gracianna on her journey to America. Likewise, this is Gracianna Winery's first step into bringing their new varietal to life in Sonoma County.
Lasaga and her family were sheepherders, settling in Santa Barbara and then Santa Maria, California. Winery co-founder Trini Amador remembers his maternal great-grandmother as always filled with life and gratitude, and it was in her honor that the family founded the winery in 2005 and graced it with her name. Gracianna Winery's brand promises "wines for those with something to be grateful for," and each wine represents a note of thanks for all that converged to make it possible.
ABOUT GRACIANNA WINERY
The Amador Family of Sonoma County are the owners of the resilient award-winning Gracianna Winery, a "fruit-first" craft winery on the Miracle Mile of Westside Road in Healdsburg, CA. Gracianna wines are for those with something to be grateful for.
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Lisa Amador
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