Current Release:
Kazmer & Blaise Pinot Noir 2006
Kazmer & Blaise Chardonnay 2006
Release Window: CLOSED
Upcoming release:
Molnar Family Chardonnay 2007
Molnar Family Pinot Noir 2007
**COMING Spring 2009**
Upon release, first crack at the wines is given to those on the mailing list.
Kazmer & Blaise Chardonnay 2006: 91 points, Robert Parker, Wine Advocate
Kazmer & Blaise Pinot Noir 2006: 91 points, Robert Parker, Wine Advocate
Molnar Family Chardonnay 2006: 90 points, Robert Parker, Wine Advocate
Obsidian Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon 2006: 89 points, Robert Parker, Wine Advocate
Obsidian Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon 2006: Top 100 Wines of 2008, San Francisco Chronicle
Obsidian Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon 2005: 90 points, Wine Spectator
Obsidian Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon 2005: 93 points, Wine News Magazine
Obsidian Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon 2005: 90 points, Wine Enthusiast
Obsidian Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon 2005: 90 points, Anthony Dias Blue for The Tasting Panel Magazine
Molnar Family Chardonnay 2005: 91 points, Editor's Choice, Wine Enthusiast
Molnar Family Pinot Noir 2005: Gold Medal – 2007 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition
Molnar Family Chardonnay 2005: Top 15 Carneros Chardonnays – San Francisco Chronicle
Kazmer & Blaise Pinot Noir: “The generous red fruit offers a texture as round as a Gevrey, the deep color and spiciness foretelling strong development to come” 91 pts Wine & Spirits.
Obsidian Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon 2004: Gold Medal – 2007 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition
Obsidian Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon 2002: 90 points, Wine Enthusiast
Obsidian Ridge: “These are the best high-impact wines I’ve tasted for this price in quite some time.” – Daniel Dawson, Back Room Wines, Napa, CA
Within the greater Poseidon’s Vineyard, there are two magical hills from which we harvest the fruit for Kazmer & Blaise: Primo’s Hill (Pinot Noir) and Boon Fly’s Hill (Chardonnay). Think of Kazmer & Blaise as “block” specific wine rather than vineyard specific. These sights are that tiny, and that special.
Carneros soils began as the bed under San Pablo Bay. The silt of decomposing marine plants and animals integrated with the finest particles of eroded rock became clay. This dark and heavy soil comprises most of the vineyard land in Carneros, but as the bay retreated and the drainage of Napa and Sonoma Valley cut through the clay, deposits of pebbles and gravel accumulated on the embankments. One such accumulation lies under Poseidon’s Vineyard, and the gravel and pebbles are actually exposed at Primo’s and Boon Fly’s hills. Grapevines like good drainage and these hills, which are the gravelly remains of the old Carneros Creek river-bank, formed sometime at the close of the last ice age. Their drainage is unsurpassed in the Carneros area.
Boon Fly’s Hill, at the southernmost corner of the vineyard, is an approximately four acre hill planted to Chardonnay. Boon Fly was a legendary, colorful character in Carneros history. He used to own the land which was this vineyard, complete with a house with 16 fireplaces (long since burned down). And, it is rumored that his grave was somewhere near the cypress tree that grows from what is now Boon Fly’s hill (we’ve never found the grave). The hill echoes the current oxbow bend in the Carneros Creek, which has retreated fifty yards to the east over the last thousand years.
Primo’s Hill is named for the gentleman from whom Nicholas Molnar purchased the property in 1973. We considered calling it “Nicholas Hill” but it just didn’t have the same ring to it. Planted entirely to Pinot Noir, Primo’s Hill is approximately seven-acres that follow a former bend in the river, with both east and north facing aspects. If you view the vineyard from a distance, the difference in vigor is striking; here the vines truly struggle.