Twisted Twig® Winery is a boutique winery nestled in the Sierra Foothills between Sacramento and Lake Tahoe, specializing in Ultra-Premium handcrafted California red wines. We use a collaborative wine making approach, whereby throughout the entire wine making process we have a team of winemakers and consultants that taste our wines and give their input. Only after, sometimes hours of debate, testing and collaboration, do we finally agree upon the best approach to maximize the potential for that vintage and harvest.
This process allows us to provide excellent drinkable wines year after year that the team agrees as being the finest wine we can produce. Our wine-making techniques range from a blend of the classic French wine farm tradition, American techniques and historical lessons. Twisted Twig® Winery has become recognized as one of the most consistent Ultra-Premium California Sierra Foothill wineries producing high quality very desirable sought after wines year after year.
Handcrafted Micro Winery
What is a micro winery? A winery that makes only a few hundred case of wine per year and typically only a couple of hundred cases of one single wine.
Focused on the production of California red wine
For 20 years we have focused on vinification of small amounts of grapes (Vitis vinifera) while refining the process of grape varietal selection, vineyard selection, timing of the harvest, yeast selection to produce the perfect California Red Wine. We are constantly testing combinations of French, American and Hungarian Oak and determining the appropriate aging process in the barrels as well as in the bottle prior to public release. We choose Syrah, Cabernet & Zinfandel as our flagship California red wines for production based on their popularity, drink-ability, and the rich complex flavors that produce wines that can be enjoyed on their own or enhance the experience when paired with food.
What makes Twisted Twig Winery California Red Wines Different?
We select grapes from a single vineyard. We ferment to dryness. We do not add water to cut the alcohol. We pick at the peak of ripeness. We pick small blocks. We hand select the yeast. We cold soak for days prior to fermentation. We ferment on the skins for at least 14 days and we age in the barrel for a minimum of 24 months to 48 months.