White wine is our work right now. The timing is perfect, on the threshold of summer. We have bottled four white wines; each widely different from the other; each, for us, a study, in the different expressions of excellence in white wine.

From the 200 surviving vines of a 50 year-old vineyard in Rutherford. 19 cases of Sauvignon Blanc.

Whole-cluster pressed Malvasia Nera; own-rooted vines planted in the 1860s in Lodi. Fragrant white wine from red grapes.

Verdelho, from the cool Sacramento River Delta. The wine is clean, direct, vehement. As always, it is reminiscent of ripe, but not super-powerful, Grüner.

(bottled by hand in March 2010)

An extraordinary Chardonnay from the 1-acre vineyard planted in 1982. Ripe, exteme, the opposite of creamy.

I have two special points about the delivery of this wine: in order to get it to you quickly and safely in the summer heat, we are offering subsidized shipping on case orders for summer delivery. In order to maxmize the festivity associated with these wines, we are going to hold at party at which you may pick up your wine.

You may order these wines here.