Steele Wines

Steele Wines
4350 Thomas Dr (Hwy 29)
Kelseyville, California
USA 95451
Phone: (707) 279-9475
http://www.steelewines.com

Contact: Jed Steele
Email: [email protected]

The year 2010 marks my forty-second year of being involved in making wine in California.

From viewing the actual number of wines we bottle, you might think that we are a large winery. However, this is not the case, as we specialize in many wines where the final bottling is less than 1,000 cases. This reflects my never ending fascination with many different varietals and vineyard locations.This approach allows us to maintain the practice of true craftmanship in the production of our small lot bottlings.

From my start as a cellar worker at Stony Hill in Napa Valley in 1968, to UC Davis for a Master’s Degree in Enology, to starting Edmeades in the Anderson Valley and being there for ten years, to then starting Kendall-Jackson and working there for the first nine vintages of that wildly successful winery (I left the year we broke the million cases per year production mark), to the start of our own STEELE Wines in 1991-it has been an incredible ride.

During this time I have been able to produce wines from just about every top quality wine region in the state, from Santa Barbara to Mendocino. The line-up of vineyards which we either own or from which we purchase grapes has evolved slowly over the years to where we consistently draw on some of the finest vineyards in California.

ll of the Steele vineyards use sustainably produced minerals like sulfate of potash-evaporated from the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Gypsum is applied to the soil and through the irrigation systems to supply much needed calcium and sulfur. Deficit irrigation is practiced on all of the irrigated vineyards to maintain leaf viability while not promoting excessive canopy growth.

Some independent growers for Steele are certified organic like Lolonis; others are organic without being currently certified, like DuPratt. Some growers are experimenting with biodynamic techniques, but at this point none are certified biodynamic. All growers for Steele Wines practice sustainable farming, with special emphasis on water and soil conservation. As agricultural systems go, even conventionally farmed vineyards tend to be low level users of pesticides. Through the introduction of sustainable practices, those levels are reduced even more.

Winemaker: Jed Steele

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