Seeing Red at Trinchero

摘要

Trinchero Napa Valley is the prestige brand of the Trinchero Family Estates portfolio, and its new winery reflects that position—as well as the financial resources contributed by its more popular wines, like the famous Sutter Home white Zinfandel. The challenge for Trinchero was to make world-class Bordeaux-style red wines that display another dimension to the company whose vast success was built making and selling inexpensive wines. The modest-sized winery built on a knoll north of St. Helena, Calif., includes the best of everything needed to make superb wines, and there's a good reason for that: Its layout and design were optimized by family scion and architect Bob Torres, senior vice president of operations of Trinchero Family Estates, then tweaked by winemaker Mario Monticelli.