Get those online orders in and receive them before Christmas! Visit our website for the best gift ideas and secure those bottles of wine to open over the holidays!!! Check below for our Holiday specials and happy shopping 🙂 Updated Tasting Room Holiday Hours: Our tasting room will be open to the public every Friday in December from …
Cellar Alumni Sale! Hello Sippers ~ Memorial Day weekend is traditionally time for our Cellar Alumni Tasting & Sale. This year is slightly different, but we will continue with this tradition, virtually. And early! We’ll be taking orders all week. Here are the ten wines that Dave has selected from the cellar. 2007 Valedictorian $50 …
Exclusively for our Sippers Club members, a special line up of cellar wines for sale! Prices are 50% off retail. 2007 Valedictorian $50 2007 Salutatorian $40 2013 Pinot Noir $40 2005 Petite Sirah $35 2012 Petite Sirah $35 2011 Class Reunion $35 2012 Carignane $35 2012 Old School …
Getting Ready for Harvest! Pinot Noir Chardonnay With the warmer weather, the vineyards are really starting to move along towards ripeness. It’s been a slow process this year and could end up being on par with last year’s long, extended hangtime. According to Winemaker Dave, “Pinot Noir is just getting through verasion and looks to be …
Library Reserve Club members are invited to an evening of wine tasting, appetizers, music & sunset. Join us on the veranda to taste the newly released September LRC wines, 2012 Prom Night, Petite Sirah, GSM & Carignane.
Live music by Mountain Ramblers and Shelley’s Biscotti will be in the house!
August is here and the summer heat is well and truly on, hastening the ripening of our estate grapes. Veraison is in full swing, turning the green grapes to red as the pace of summer quickens and our thoughts turn to impending harvest. Pinot Noir sports netting — we don’t like to share with the …
The merry month of May leads the way for the glory of June, with its plethora of occasions to celebrate— graduations, Fathers Day, weddings, anniversaries — along with some fantastic and festive wine events. All are grand reasons to celebrate with Burrell School’s fine wines. Come visit us this weekend and stock up on wines …
It’s Count Down to Harvest in the Santa Cruz Mountains! It’s August, and that means harvest is imminent. We’ve netted the Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, and we’ll be bottling some of the 2010 and 2011 vintages, emptying barrels and freeing them up for vintage 2012. It looks like we’re in for a serious heat wave …
Have You Tasted The Future Yet? This is our last week for barrel tasting and futures at the Schoolhouse – July 26 through July 29 only! Join Dave this weekend in the cellar for barrel tasting and futures sales. A few cases are still available to stash away in your cellar, so come visit the …
Fireworks and Futures It’s July—time to celebrate Independence Day and sample futures. And to wish Burrell School a very happy 122nd birthday on the Fourth! Wow – that’s a lot of firecrackers worth of years! July Events: The Futures Are Here! A Wine Sippers club exclusive, we’ll be tasting futures all month long. In …
The harvest of 2011 could well be classified as an interminable wait, punctuated by frenetic bouts of picking activity, followed by yet more interminable waiting, nail biting, some pleas to heaven for abatement of rain, and abundance of sun, followed by thankful, hurried blitzkriegs of picking in advance of yet more grey, gloomy, ill-portending storm …
At Burrell School Vineyards, there’s the sound of corks popping in celebration of the end of harvest. There’s also the quiet sighs of relief after what has been a nail-biting season, with overall reduced yields. Anne and Dave are very grateful to their Santa Clara vineyard partners for supplying them with Cabernet a-plenty for the …