The Life commitment of Dry Creek Winery

 Life commitment of  Dry Creek Winery

With a vine production history, Dry Creek Winery is a family business that over time became one of the best wineries in Dry Creek Valley. The farm is surrounded by beautiful gardens, an incredible and interactive tasting room and the largest field of one of the most wanted wine grape in the world. The Zinfandel and the Sauvignon are just some of their most valued wines, considering that their wine offer is oriented to satisfy even the most delicate and demanding tastes.

The geographical conditions of the town and the variations in climate and soil composition makes possible that, Dry Creek Winery produces several kinds of strains satisfying that way the most demanding palates.

But the geographical conditions are not enough, the techniques that the winery uses in the production and harvesting allowed to Dry Creek Winery be one of the most famous wineries and award many prizes all over the world. This winery has been certified as a sustainable winery in California and has awarded prices since 2007 for their broad number of wines.

The History

Forty years ago, in Dry Creek Valley, David Stare found the Dry Creek Winery in the north of Sonoma county. By the inspiration of Loraine valleys, he once got the idea of building a viticultural center. The orchard started with the Sauvignon Blanc, being the beginning of a prominent future of the wine industry.

The risky step that David dear to take was just the beginning of a remarkable industry, starting this way his family winery tradition. That tradition leads the following generations the wine heritage. Legacy and passion are just words compared with the spirit and dedication this family invest on this vineyard.

The Facilities

The tasting room that Dry Creek Winery daily offers to visitor counts with an extensive range of wines from the signature wines to the selections from the wine club. Those visits to the tasting room are made with a previous reservation and paying o moderate price per person.

Also, they offer a particular service where they guide tourists through what they call the first tasting experience: The Meritage, wherein a private place inside the cellar they teach the art of the famous Bordeaux mix, that way people have the needed tools to prepare their own blend, of course, like everything, this experience has a price, 45 dollars per person, and according to some visitors' opinion a small price for such an incredible expertise.

But the tasting experience is not the only thing that this amazing winery offers. It also has excellent facilities to make the stay of travelers an unforgettable experience, including a picnic field pet-friendly where besides enjoying the sight seen tourists can spend a fun and beautiful time with friends and family.

Now, after so many years, Dry Creek Winery still continues building the established values with the same commitment to producing a high quality wine, combining the best nature friendly techniques of plantation with sophisticated methods brought by this new generation on the winery.

Dry Creek Wineries, home of a liquid treasure

Dry Creek Wineries

Located to the north of California, the valleys of Sonoma are well known for the quality of their wine production. It is the case of one of the towns with larger production, Dry Creek Valley, where near to the creek most wineries wait for adventurous travelers to give a tour to the amazing fields.

Dry creek valley is an area surrounded by unusual vegetation where travelers can enjoy many different activities to be in contact with the nature. And the hundreds of wineries all over the road, each of them, with a long family tradition of growing the best grapes in family wineries, complete the trip. The valley hosts the largest number of producers of the oldest and finest wine Zinfandel among others.

The crops

The producers in the valley always improve the farming practices to cultivate premium wine grapes ensuring that way an organic and sustainable management practices of the soil. They're commitment to take care of the soil makes that the complete production is made manually, avoiding as much as they can the use of chemical that can influence in the resulting crops.

The variety of soil conditions in the valley, allows farmers to take control of the production and define the kind of strain they want to produce and discover and apply the specific conditions of growing for that type of grape.

The climate is also a critical factor in the development of the strains, in that sense the taste of the grapes of the warmth region is entirely different from the others.

The tradition

Dry Creek Wineries have the antique reputation of producing the world class wine, Bordeaux, Rhone, and Zinfandel. The old vine Zinfandel is one of the most sought out and most world renown, being the highest concentration of this type of wine in the valleys of Dry Creek.

Besides the years go by, the winery production remains as a familiar business, so it is really typical for visitors meet the winery owner explaining and helping with the testing on the tours through the winery.

The tours are a fantastic option all year round, but each year in April, the visitors can get a passport to Dry Creek  Valley, which is like a V.I.P. Card to be able to visit over 45 vineyards in the town, a dream coming true to all wine lover.

But the wine is not the only one strength in the region, during those two days; you can eat the best gourmet food from the hand of the greatest chefs of the area, pleasing the most delicate palates and demonstrating best combinations between wine and food.

Dry Creek Wineries keeps on their land a mixture between tradition and modernity, with an old mystic, where, to the sight of the visitors is endless fields carrying the best grapes. And the tasting rooms where you can feel at home with the guidance of the owner makes this place a dream for all the wine tasters.

A journey through Dry Creek Valley

California valleys are well known for the extensive territories dedicated to viniculture, one of them is Dry Creek Valley.  Also known as the oldest valley richest in culture and traditions, it is located in Sonoma country in California.

It is well known by the sumptuous roads and mountains that lead to a magnificent lake and to the wine and fruit plantations. The wineries are the primary attraction of the place, between their lands hosts over 70 wineries covering an area of over 16 miles long, becoming to this valley on the third largest wine producing area all over Sonoma.

The Beauty of the Place

An incredible landscape surrounding the town amuses all the visitors that daily enjoys of the remarkable view of the lake on the south by the Dry Creek road boarding the fish hatchery, a path that can quickly drive you to the ocean. The unpredictable and majestic territory of this valley invites all travelers to experience a road trip. Not only enjoy the scenery, lakes and the warm welcome of the people, but also to enjoy the famous and traditional wine tastings offered by producers.

The wine tours allow the visitors taste the different wine strains through which Dry Creek Valley became famous, the Zinfandel and the Bordeaux, world class wines outcome of more than 100 years of tradition and production techniques.

An Attractive Route

Countless wineries from the wine road, as it is known, promote the wisdom and knowledge that made possible the cultivation of majestic vineyards award winners. Villager considers as a tradition to continue an antique line of family owners, where the long and old family lines has kept the secrets to producing the some of the best wine strains, secrets that are being combined with new techniques brought recently by the new generations.

But wine is not the only thing cultivated in Dry Creek Valley, it is common see the plantation of fruits like pear and plum, being processed and sold by one the biggest corporations in agriculture, the Sunsweet Growers.

Food and wine go together in Dry Creek Valley. Some wineries have implemented gourmet restaurants to complement their services, offering to travelers the option to enjoy a delicious meal prepared especially to match the mystic wines they offer. And if the visitor wants some less formal food, the general store of the town offers excellent meals.

The travel through the valley cannot be completed without staying in the rental houses that the wineries offer, now visiting the plantation is not enough, the traveler can also send a couple of days in there hosted by the warmth of the farmers.

The warm welcome that the villagers of the valley offer is just the first stop of a beautiful journey along a lush and mystical territory where travelers can interact with the nature and also will enjoy the culture, tradition, food, and the amazing wineries with their famous wine tasting all along the best wineries of the town.