Wine Tasting in Coming New Year

Hope you are all enjoying the Christmas Season and have a Happy New Year!

As we are looking forward to 2010, we want to make you aware of two upcoming events for D & L Carinalli Vineyards:

Saturday, February 6, 2010 - Wine Tasting at the Sonoma County Farm Bureau's 21st Annual Great Sonoma Crab & Wine Fest

Saturday, February 20, 2010 - SF Chronicle Wine Tasting at Fort Mason Center’s Festival Pavilion

See our Events page for details!

Sonoma County Harvest Fair

D & L Carinalli Vineyards is pleased to announce that our 2008 Chardonnay and 2007 Pinot Noir both won silver awards at the 2009 Sonoma County Harvest Fair. We enjoyed pouring our fine wines at the wine tasting and hope to see many of you during the upcoming year.

The Holiday Season is just around the corner. Why not purchase some of 2008 Chardonnay or 2007 Pinot Noir for gifts for your family and friends! We also have a limited amount of our 2008 Vin Rosé available as well.

Wine Tasting and Awards

We enjoyed pouring wine at the 14th Annual "Grape to Glass", "Hog in the Fog", event sponsored by the Russian River Growers on August 15. We also poured wine on August 29th at the Petaluma Wine, Jazz and Blues festival at the Sonoma Marin Fair.

Our 2007 Chardonnay, Russian River Valley Estate wine won a silver award at the "2009 North of the Gate Wine Competition".

We are looking forward to seeing you at the 2009 Sonoma Wine Country weekend at the MacMurray ranch on September 5 from 11am to 4pm.

2009 Wine Bloggers Convention

D & L Carinalli Vineyards just poured wine at the 2009 Wine Bloggers Convention in Santa Rosa, CA, at the Flamingo Hotel. We had a wonderful time visiting with all the attendees and sharing our wines with them. Bloggers - I hope you are checking our BLOG. Looking forward to seeing all of you again.

Check out our EVENTS. Our next event will be "Grape to Glass" with Russian River Valley Winegrowers. Hope to see all of you there.

Introducing Our New Vin Rosé Wine

D and L Carinalli Vineyards' 2008 Vin Rosé wine made a hit at the Farm Bureau's "Love of the Land" BBQ and wine tasting event on July 16, 2009. We have a limited quantity of cases available for sale. They are going fast, so contact Lynda at 707.795.7052 to make a purchase.

The Awards Keep Coming In!

Our D and L Carinalli Vineyards 2007 Chardonnay, Russian River Valley, Estate Wine, won a silver award (88 points) at the 2009 California State Fair.

Our D and L Carinalli Vineyards 2007 Pinot Noir, Russian River Valley, Estate Wine, won bronze awards at the 2009 California State Fair (86 points) and the 2009 San Francisco Wine Competition.

Los Angeles International Wine and Spirits awards

Our D and L Carinalli Vineyards 2007 Chardonnay, Russian River Valley, Estate Wine, won a silver award at the 2009 Los Angeles International Wine and Spirits competition. This makes 8 awards for this wine including the Double Gold award at the 2009 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition!

Our D and L Carinalli Vineyards 2007 Pinot Noir, Russian River Valley, Estate Wine, won a bronze award at the 2009 Los Angeles International Wine and Spirits competition. This makes 9 awards for this wine including a Gold award at the 2009 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition!

We invite you to try our wines and see if you don't agree with the judges!

Wine Tasting at the MacMurray Ranch

We will be having wine tasting at the "Love of the Land" event which is being presented by Farm Bureau and MacMurray Ranch. The wine tasting and dinner will be held at the MacMurray Ranch in Healdsburg, CA, on Thursday, July 16, 2009, starting at 5:00 p.m. For more information, go to www.sonomacountyfarmbureau.com. For tickets call 707.544.5575

Grape Update

Our grapes have made it through the frost and bloom. We are waiting for them to mature. We hope to harvest in October. We've had cool June weather and hoping this will bring a special favor to our wine.

2007 Pinot Noir wins a silver award

D and L Carinalli Vineyards, 2007 Pinot Noir, Russian River Estate wine, won a silver award at the Orange County Fair. We are very proud of the great success of wines.

"Wine Blogger Conference" in Santa Rosa, CA

We are looking forwarding to our next event - a Post Dinner Wine Tasting sponsored by Russian River Wine Growers. See "Wine Blogger Conference" to purchase a ticket and for more information. This event is on Friday, July 24, 2009, from 9:00 - 10:30 p.m., in Santa Rosa, at the Flamingo Hotel in the Alexander Room. Hope to see your there!

San Francisco Wine Festival

We had a wonderful turn out at the "Uncorked!" - San Francisco Wine Festival at Ghirardelli Square. We throughly enjoyed meeting and pouring wine for the people and visitors in San Francisco. Hope you had a great day.

2009 West Coast Wine Competition

D & L Carinalli Vineyards won bronze awards for both their 2007 Chardonnay and 2007 Pinot Noir at the 2009 West Coast Wine Competition. This brings the total awards to 7 for both wines!

D & L Carinalli Vineyard Chardonnay wine wins awards

Our 2007 Chardonnay Russian River Valley, Estate Wine, has won many awards in the past 2 years:

Double Gold @ SF Chronicle Wine Competition 2009
Silver @ Riverside International Wine 2009
Silver @ National Women's Wine 2009
Silver @ Sonoma County Harvest Fair 2008
Bronze @ West Coast Wine Competition 2009
Bronze @ Grand Harvest Award 2009
Bronze @ Professional Wine Buyer's Competition 2008

We participate in a variety of competitions and tasting events throughout the year. See our website at www.dlcarinallivineyards.com.