Howell Mountain Library Releases

This passion project that we refer to as "Operation 100" has been an on-going mission to make the best wines we can: 100 Point wines! We originally produced these special offerings as an experiment with the 2014 vintage where we designated a few rows from each of our premier single vineyard blocks for this special project. 

Essentially, a cordon-trained grapevine, with two arms and five shoots on each arm, optimally ripens two clusters of grapes per shoot.  We decided to cut back the fruit to yield a single cluster per shoot which we hoped would increase the vines' ability to produce a more intense and concentrated wine. It did just that!  The resulting wine highlighted each single vineyard's characteristics and complexities, with lush nuances and had incredible structure and quality.

We created a label to highlight the incredible quality of the single cluster wines and only release these wines in the BEST vintages.