Tory's Block Red Wine is the winner of a Double Gold at the prestigious 2007 California State Fair Commercial Wine Competition with an astounding Score of 98! This Meritage blend of 90% Cabernet Sauvignon with 10% Merlot garnered the coveted "Best of California Bordeaux Blend (Meritage)" ribbon award. No questions asked - this wine is a "must-try"! Less than 200 cases remain.

2003
TORY'S BLOCK
Red Wine
Echo Valley
Mendocino County
California

We’ve been growing award winning Merlot since 1987. In 2003, winemaker Mike Officer determined we’d waited long enough to bring these beautiful berries to the next level. The result is our premier release of Valentine Vineyards Merlot. A beautiful balance of Merlot’s seductive charm and velvet-gloved power. This wine will show the Merlot-adverse the error of their ways.

Produced from 100% Merlot grapes from Valentine Vineyards' “Upper Bench Block”, this wine was aged for 20 months in a majority of new French Oak barrels. Only 282 cases were produced and the Summer of 2006 marks the release of this wine. We are offering it at $22.00 per bottle with a 20% discount. This caluculates out to $211.20 a case. It is time for Valentine Vineyards Cabernet lovers to give a new varietal from us a try!

2003
MERLOT
Upper Bench
Echo Valley
Mendocino County
California

In our Echo Valley Vineyards, 2002 was an excellent vintage overall, with generous spring rains and optimum temperatures at harvest resulting in extended hang time and near-perfect ripening. A new selection protocol in the vineyard coupled with adjustments to our barrel mix (emphasizing the use of more French oak) resulted in what we believe is an excellent wine.

In the words of one reviewer, Valentine Vineyards 2002 Cabernet Sauvignon exhibits “...excellent black currant flavors already blending nicely with the oak... (It’s) three dimensional and, although it is drinking remarkably well for its age right now, ...it should develop well over at least the next two to three years” (John Walter, London).

Our ‘02 Cab is doubtless the most complex yet appealing wine we’ve produced to date.