The main restaurant, Rustic, focuses on Italian specialties and Neapolitan pizza, while the adjacent Parilla offers Argentinean-style grilled meats over wood flames. The elaborate pool includes a poolside café and 28 day cabins for rent. Not many wineries feature elaborate public pool complexes, but the Francis Ford Coppola Winery in. By blending from different micro-climates, the winery strives to create wines with lush fruit and soft tannins, and based on the ones I have tried, they have greatly succeeded.
#Coppola wine claret 2013 series#
The Director’s series features four popular varietals (Chardonnay, Cabernet, Merlot, Pinot Noir) using grapes grown all across Sonoma County. The Director’s Cut features limited production wines (Cabernet, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Zinfandel, Pinot Noir and a red blend called Cinema) from grapes grown in designated sub-appellations of Sonoma. Coppola makes a wide range, dozens of bottles, and I haven’t had a chance to taste them all, but I did sample some of the varietals in his flagship Director’s and Director’s Cut series, and they were standouts for both taste and value, offering a top tier small production craft experience at under $30.
Until recently I had only tried his wines as one-offs when I bought them, but the winery recently sent me a sampling of the excellent labels being produced in Sonoma. I’ve bought the cabernet sauvignon, merlot and especially the claret, a traditional Bordeaux-style blend that goes great with food.
In particular I have been a consumer of his Diamond Label series, which sell for around $20 per bottle and are consistently delicious. He also makes scarcer wines selling for as much as $50. Later he purchased the rights to the Inglenook label and in 2011 renamed the estate again, to Inglenook.īut it is his Coppola branded wines that have always had my attention, because they have consistently delivered great value, especially in the mid-range price points, a step up from entry-level, with many quality wines in the high teens and twenties, which have delivered great bang for the buck year in and year out. He subsequently purchased the famed Inglenook Chateau in 1995 and renamed his winery the Rubicon Estate.
I have always been a fan of Coppola’s wines, and actually visited his original Napa winery back in the late eighties.
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