Sky Saddle Wines
Sky Saddle Wines are limited edition, hand-crafted and award-winning wines made from certified organically grown grapes. We are a small, family owned business making just 1000 cases each year. Please contact us directly if you'd like to purchase our wines!
•Our available wines are 2005 Syrah, 2006 & 2007 Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Sangiovese, and Zinfandel Click here for wine info (pdf)
•Did you know that all vineyards in Sonoma County were dry farmed until the 1960's and 70's? Check out this video that Kate entered into the Sonoma Environmental Film Festival called "A Return to Dry Farming"
•Sky Saddle Wines wins SILVER and BRONZE MEDALS in
First-Ever International Green Wine Competition! The International Green Wine Competition was created to recognize the growing demand for “green” wines that are either made from pesticide-free organic or biodynamically-grown grapes .The Competition created a shopping list that green-minded consumers can take to their favorite wine store and know that these wines are not only “green, they’re great”. The Consumer’s Green Wine Shopping List™ may be downloaded free at www.greenwinecomp.info.
•To get more up-to-date info on what's happening at Sky Saddle please join our Facebook group! We have some photos posted of our trip to Italy for the Slow Food event Terra Madre and our experience as extras in the Bottle Shock movie!
•Sky Saddle was nominated to go to Slow Food’s Terra Madre in Italy in October 08 www.terramadre.info. We were the only winery
representing Sonoma County! Read the press release here. Watch a video we made about Slow Food San Francisco on You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G3eKj95MNg
•Our 2005 Chardonnay places 3rd out of 160 Chardonnays worldwide in the Chardonnay Shootout! www.affairsofthevine.com
• Our 2006 Chardonnay had a recent review by Randy Caparoso's
"Organic Wine Match of the Day." He said: "a fairly big, fat, sweet butterball of a wine, teeming with honeyed apples, smoky white oak, and a drop of apricot in the nose; the body, full scaled and viscous, creamy textured, muscular in feel, finishing in a cacophony of sweet apples, vanillin/toasted oak." Mmmm....
• Our Chardonnay and Sangiovese are from the biodynamic Harm's Vineyard's in Napa Valley. We love their grapes! For more information on the vineyards and the harvest of 2008 go here.
•Food and Wine Magazine mentions our Chardonnay: "I also got to taste a pretty terrific Chardonnay from another fellow making wine at Deerfield Ranch, Matt Wilson. The 2006 Sky Saddle Chardonnay ($30) comes from a small biodynamic vineyard in the Oak Knoll District; fourteen months of extended lees contact gives it a silky texture and depth that recalls Mark Aubert's Chardonnays, for instance, albeit at a lot less $$. Not very much of this around, but no one seems to know about it yet, either. Give the man a call."
• A review of our 2003 Cabernet
• A review of our 2003 Zinfandel
• We were featured in Waterkeeper Magazine for our environmentally friendly wine!
•Why buy organic? Check out this whimsical video on You Tube that illustrates how important it is to not support the pesticide culture!
If you would like to order our wines please contact us directly,
or use this order form (pdf).
Tel: 707-483-6645
Email: skysaddle@earthlink.net for info
mateowilson@earthlink.net for winemaker
