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Dry Creek Vineyard

Sub-AVA · Dry Creek Valley

Further reading: Producer's own site

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Editorial profile

Dry Creek Vineyard is a family-owned winery in Healdsburg, in Sonoma County's Dry Creek Valley AVA, founded by David S. Stare in 1972 — the first new winery built in the valley since Prohibition. The estate is known above all for old-vine Zinfandel, bottled from a run of named growers' blocks (Vogensen Ranch, Somers Ranch, Wallace Ranch, Spencer's Hill, the Four Clones estate vineyard) alongside an Old Vine and a Heritage Vines bottling, and for a long-running Sauvignon Blanc and Fumé Blanc program that helped establish the grape in Dry Creek Valley.

Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Malbec, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Chenin Blanc round out the lineup, alongside a small tier of proprietary Bordeaux-style blends (The Mariner, the Meritage bottlings, SeaQuelle) whose exact blend composition the site does not disclose.

Facts read from drycreekvineyard.com

What's on file

Address

3770 LAMBERT BRIDGE RD

Where it's registered

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  • Principal3770 LAMBERT BRIDGE RD, HEALDSBURG

The ground it sits on

Sub-AVA · Dry Creek Valley

6.2

pH, 1:1 water

13.7cm

, whole profile

98cm

to

Well drained

, dominant condition

Distribution across 94 · mean ◆, median │, p10–p90 bar

6.2
2.4%
24.0%
available water
13.7cm
depth to restriction
98cm

Dominant

  • 18.4%
  • 14.4%
  • 11.1%
  • 8.4%
  • 8.0%

94 map units · soil described over 95.7% of the region’s area · 4.1% is water, rock outcrop or other non-soil · 90% of the described area has a restrictive layer within the profile.

Wines

27 of 28 wines link to the page they were read from. The list is what a producer publishes about itself, one citation at a time — it is not a catalog, and a wine missing from it is uncurated rather than unmade.