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 Vintage2015 Label 1 of 29 
TypeRed
ProducerBrassfield Estate Winery (web)
VarietyRed Blend
DesignationEruption
VineyardVolcano Ridge
CountryUSA
RegionCalifornia
SubRegionNorth Coast
AppellationHigh Valley

Drinking Windows and Values
Drinking window: Drink between 2018 and 2021 (based on 39 user opinions)

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Community Tasting Notes (average 88.7 pts. and median of 89 pts. in 3 notes) - hiding notes with no text

 Tasted by wfickling4 on 4/17/2020 & rated 89 points: Very new world in style with lots of blue fruit flavors as well as some oak influence with allspice on the nose. Overall a solid bottle at a reasonable price. (632 views)

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Brassfield Estate Winery

Producer website
Brassfield Estate Winery & Vineyard is located in the western section of High Valley at High Serenity Ranch on a truly distinctive and remarkable winegrowing property. Our valley floor vineyards sit at 1800 ft elevation. The higher vineyard blocks rise to nearly 3000 ft. The temperatures of some parts of this unique vineyard are some of the coldest in California, giving Brassfield a heat summation equivalent to a Region 3 or less in some vintages. In 1973, Jerry Brassfield purchased the original 1,600 acres here as a cattle ranch and wildlife reserve. Over the next three decades Jerry acquired additional property. Today, the Lake County estate includes 2,500 acres across both the eastern and the western sections of High Valley, as well as the Round Mountain Volcano.

The Vineyards were investigated for their potential to produce world-class estate-grown wines in 1998. Vineyard planting began in 2001. As the vineyards matured, the winery has grown with a state-of-the-art winemaking facility. David Ramey produced, family-owned, estate-grown, and endlessly over-delivering – the Brassfield Estate experience provides a continued series of surprises that delight our consumers, trade partners and friends. And, like most wines of superior quality and character, Brassfield follows the true definition of estate bottled wine. Whether it’s the nuanced flavor of our heritage varietals, or our proprietary Eruption and Serenity blends, all of of the grapes that go into our wines are grown in our own vineyards, vinified and bottled at our winery.

Red Blend

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Volcano Ridge

Volcano Ridge Vineyard is located on the steep slopes of an extinct
cinder cone at 2,200 feet above sea level on the eastern end of High
Valley. The pure volcanic soils are ideal for vine stress, restricting
crop yields, and making wine that has both intensity and elegance.

USA

American wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.

California

2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson

North Coast

The North Coast American Viticultural Area (AVA) in California, covering more than three million acres, includes Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino and Lake counties, and portions of Marin and Solano counties. (see The Wine Institute for more information)

High Valley

Lake County

 
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