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Editorial profile
Hamel Family Wines is a family-owned estate in Sonoma Valley, farming volcanic-soil vineyards along the western slopes of the Mayacamas Mountains, including the estate around the winery and the higher-elevation Nuns Canyon Vineyard within the Moon Mountain District AVA. George and Pam Hamel began growing grapes behind their Kenwood home in the mid-2000s, producing their first 290 cases of Cabernet Sauvignon in 2006; the estate now farms its vineyards biodynamically and organically, largely dry-farmed. Cabernet Sauvignon is the estate's central focus, expressed as the entry-level Isthmus blend, the single-vineyard Nuns Canyon Vineyard bottling, and the small-production Stratum blend, alongside varietal Estate Grenache and Estate Sauvignon Blanc.
Facts read from hamelfamilywines.com
What's on file
Address
15401 & 15409 SONOMA HWY
Where it's registered
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- Principal15401 & 15409 SONOMA HWY, SONOMA
The ground it sits on
Sub-AVA · Sonoma Valley
6.0
pH, 1:1 water
14.9cm
, whole profile
87cm
to
Well drained
, dominant condition
Distribution across 159 · mean ◆, median │, p10–p90 bar
Dominant
- 31.9%
- 14.8%
- 6.6%
- 6.1%
- 4.8%
159 map units · soil described over 93.2% of the region’s area · 6.1% is water, rock outcrop or other non-soil · 79% of the described area has a restrictive layer within the profile.
Wines
single-vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon-based blend from the estate's Nuns Canyon Vineyard; full composition not stated
described as a Cabernet Sauvignon-based blend; full composition not stated
described as a classically-styled Cabernet Sauvignon; full composition not stated
5 of 5 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.