Our Fall 2022 Wine Release Welcome to Neal Family Vineyards. We invite you to visit our family estate in Napa Valley – the place where we grow our Cabernet Sauvignon, vinify, age, and bottle our wines, and where we’ve made our family home for the last three decades. A visit to our Howell Mountain Estate […]
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When the Neals planted their roots in the Napa Valley in 1960, they also planted Greek olive trees. Mark’s grandmother (Yi Yia in Greek) was from Crete. This is where the influence of Organic & Biodynamic farming began on the first property in Rutherford that Jack and Athene purchased in 1966. Olive trees love the
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While Jack Neal was just starting his vineyard management company in 1968 out of his own garage, his wife, Athene, had her garden of flowers and many seasonal vegetables and fruit to support her small truck garden business in Rutherford. Athene and her Greek immigrant mother, Zmora, would spend hours at a time deshelling walnuts
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Our Fall 2022 Wine Release When looking at wine regions around the world, climate and soil type are first and foremost. The climate of a region is incredibly influential on wine grape varietals and how they are grown. Napa Valley is a place where the stars have aligned – it is just over an hour’s
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It’s the time of the year when winemakers assess the type of barrels to procure for the upcoming vintages. As winemaking styles differ from winery to winery, barrel selections also vary. Like all other variables in the winemaking process, barrels are intricate and require winemakers to consider the specifications of the various barrel factors- design,
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Napa Valley Cabernet Spring 2022 Vines are awakening and welcoming the new vintage in Napa Valley. Activities in the vineyard and cellar are starting to pick up with new energy again. In the Vineyards…. The 2022 winegrowing season is upon us. At the beginning of the month, we saw our cover crops grow very well
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Mark Neal has been building vineyards in much of the North Coast since he was a kid. There is an astounding amount of planning and decision-making for each area of land that results in the high quality wines that consumers drink today. How Vineyards are designed Mark Neal’s winemaking philosophy is that great wines are
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Farming techniques for vineyards When it comes to vineyards, and most farming, previous seasons can affect the next. It is important for farmers to interpret the uncontrollable, Mother Nature, to then know when and how to react for a successful season. The key to farming is that it is all about patience & timing. As
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What’s Happening in the Wine Cellar “Currently, our wines have all fully completed fermentation and malolactic fermentation. The wines have been racked and sulfited as well. The finished wines will then be clear, clean and ready to properly assess in a technical tasting. The 2021 vintage was relatively early, quite condensed and had no particularly
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