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Red Car

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Red Car is a boutique winery focused on producing Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Roussanne, Rose of Pinot Noir, and Syrah from a network of cold-climate vineyards located in the West Sonoma Coast. The wines are made in small lots utilizing minimalist intervention techniques like native yeast fermentation, gravity flow, and natural acid. Each winegrowing decision emphasizing crafting aromatic wines of complexity, finesse and balance. The low yields, hands-on farming and extraordinary cold climate of Red Car’s vineyards enable the wines to offer intensity of flavor without the weight of excessive alcohol.

Red Car was founded by winemaker Carroll Kemp and partners Mark Estrin and Richard Crowell in 2000 with 50 cases of wine from a single ton of grapes. The winery name is a tribute to the electric trolley cars that ran throughout Los Angeles from the late 19th century through the early 1960’s. These evocative “red cars” provided transportation in a romanticized time and place.
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