“Making Fine Wines in the Santa Cruz Mountains Since 1979.” High in the Santa Cruz Mountains Jerold O’Brien handcrafts small lots using the best of old world traditions and new world science to create wines of character, complexity and depth. Jerold believes that there is only one way to make good wine and that is to start with healthy vines that produce good grapes and that the environment they grow in is the beginning and the end of how this happens. Jerold was a proponent

People often tell us of some incredible bottle of wine they have that is just waiting for that oh so perfectly important event. Sometimes its a bottle they've saved up for and purchased or maybe at a tasting they fell in love and then spent four times as much as they normally would. Maybe it is an ICON bottle of wine that just demands an epic special event. No matter the wine the sad thing is that more often than not, it's lonely, growing old and melancholy, and probably not