Linda and Steve Tenbrink own the winery, and also host some custom crush clients there. Turning onto a small side road that dead-ended just short of the I-80 freeway in Fairfield, I drove up to the large red barn of Tenbrink Vineyards. Fortunately things worked out this time and I visited them in mid-November.
I had hoped to visit Elyse Egan Perry of Egan Cellars and Matthew Rorick of Forlorn Hope earlier in the year, but we weren’t able to coordinate our schedules at that time. I also visited a couple of vintners there who source much of their fruit from other areas although they do buy some local grapes as well – Egan Cellars and Forlorn Hope Wines. I had time for a day-trip after the 2013 crush season was over, and took the opportunity to explore the wines of Solano County Green Valley and Suisun Valley. Along with its neighbor, Suisun Valley – also recognized in 1982 – these two growing regions in Solano County are little-known, yet they both actually border the Napa Valley AVA and share much in common with that famed region. Established one year earlier in 1982, Solano County Green Valley was the original Green Valley AVA in California. There’s the well-known Green Valley of Russian River Valley AVA, but that’s not the oldest Green Valley appellation in the state. Most people familiar with California wine know about the wines of Green Valley…or do they? What many don’t realize is that there are not one but two Green Valley wine regions in California. Vezér Family Vineyard / Wasted Grape / Stuessy Cellars
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A full report on all of the visits is on the website: I've posted a portion of a report on a November day-trip to several wineries and tasting rooms in the Solano County Green Valley and Suisun Valley AVAs.
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