Tulocay Winery
Tulocay Winery is located in the Coombsville wine region east of the town of Napa. The winery was founded in 1975 by Bill Cadman. He made is first wine in 1974 with grapes purchased from Yountville.
| Region: | Napa Valley |
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| Sub Region: | Coombsville |
| Wine: | View all wines |
Bill Cadman had early success producing unpretentious Pinot Noir in the region’s relatively cool, wind swept climate. Cadman currently makes about 2,000 cases of wine a year.
Tulocay Winery makes Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Zinfandel, Syrah, Pinot Noir, and Chardonnay. All of these wines are from a single vineyard.
The winery’s Chardonnay is made in a fruit forward wine that was not aged in barrels and underwent 50% malolactic fermentation. The grapes used to make this wine were grown in the Double T Vineyard. Their Cabernet Sauvignon is made from Cliff Vineyard in the Coombsville region.
gradu said:
We opened a bottle of the 1975 Tulocay Cabernet Sauvignon for our 2009 Christmas dinner. I was thinking that the wine would really show some age and perhaps I had waited too long to open it. I was very pleased! The wine showed very little browning, and was a deep garnet red color. There was still some fruit and the wine was in perfect balance! A great wine! This was a single bottle from our cellar and must have been a single bottle purchase. I can only image the power of this wine in it's youth...probably right up there with the 1974 BV, 75 Stags leap, and 75 Heitz Martha's vineyard.
Posted 72 days ago.
skippy said:
We're out of Chardonnay but have an ample supply of reds. The website is at http://tulocay.com for anyone who is curious to learn about one of Napa Valley's oldest and best-kept secrets!
Posted 986 days ago.