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Mokelumne Oaks Vintners

Mokelumne Oaks Vintners

Mokelumne Oaks Vintners
12470 Locke Road
Lockeford, California
USA 95237
Phone: (209) 649-4778
http://mokelumneoaksvintners.com

Contact: Manual Tavares
Email: [email protected]

From the serenity of California’s great central valley oaks arises the expression of fine wine produced in world-class quality microclimates. Only California can produce so many different expressions of flavor and resonance from each variety, and capture the heritage and flavors of oak to provide a premier wine you can share with family and friends. Our red wines have been selected from a few of these vineyards that produce their own distinctive bouquet and flavor, giving a unique experience to each and everyone who savors fine wine.

Our Mission is to Create a $60 bottle of wine and sell it for $15.00. We believe that Wine should be a conversation piece. We like to create a wine that intrigues your pallet—causing one to linger trying to identify each nuance of the wine.The end product is a complex wine that has a smooth finish.

Tavares grows the grapes, barrels and blends the wine, and sells it. He’s been in the vineyard his entire adult life, growing grenache, carignane and mission grapes since the 1970s. And he has been dabbling in winemaking in the Portuguese tradition for years with his father as his teacher.

When the wine market became bloated in 2001, Tavares could not find a home for his grapes. Neither could other growers — and they banded together to form Mokelumne Oaks. Fortunately, the 2001 crop in the Lodi area was light, allowing the grapes to have more intense flavors. That’s just what Tavares wanted. “I intentionally left the grapes longer on the vines to increase (the sugars),” he said. “There is a boldness in the taste.”

There also is a balance of oak flavors, which Tavares created by aging his red wines in a combination of one-year-old and two-year-old American and French barrels.

Winemaker: Manual Tavares

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