CLOUD VIEW VINEYARDS
St. Helena, California

WINE TYPE and PRODUCTION
Cloud View produces a single proprietary premium red wine blended from Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot from the best, most intense red grapes from Napa mountain vineyards. We limit our annual production to 600 - 800 cases.

DEBUT and FUTURE RELEASES
Cloud View's 1999 Vintage, 400 cases, debuted March 12, 2002.

TERROIR
The hillside soils that produce the fine grapes for Cloud View wine are complex, heterogeneous, rocky red clay loam. Slopes around the Valley get more sun, more wind, and less rain and fog than the Valley floor.

WINEMAKER and VINEYARD CONSULTANT
Karen Bower Turjanis, formerly of Cardinale, Lokoya, and Paul Hobbs Winery spends as much time in the vineyard as she does in the winery.

WINEGROWER
Linda Taylor makes certain that our vines get the very best care. She works with a team of experts to assure the highest quality fruit.

OWNERS and FOUNDERS
Linda and Leighton Taylor have been growing grapes on Napa mountainsides since 1990.

WINE-MAKING NOTES
We strive to make a full-bodied, complex but friendly wine that displays its rich fruit in a delicate frame of oak. We use only our estate-grown grapes. Berries are small, intense, with deep color.
Bunches are hand-picked and sorted, gently de-stemmed and cold-soaked in small temperature-controlled fermentation tanks. Our wine is barreled in French oak and aged for two years.

CONTACT CLOUD VIEW VINEYARDS
To order Cloud View Vineyards wine, or contact us, go to our Contact Page.