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Schramsberg

Sub-AVA · Diamond Mountain District

Further reading: Producer's own site

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Editorial profile

Schramsberg is a méthode traditionnelle sparkling wine house on Diamond Mountain, above Calistoga, founded in 1965 by Jack and Jamie Davies on a run-down 19th-century property. Their first release, the 1965 Blanc de Blancs, was the first commercial use of Chardonnay in an American sparkling wine, and Chardonnay–Pinot Noir blends made in the traditional bottle-fermented method remain the house's core.

Fruit is drawn from roughly 120 cool-climate vineyard sites across Carneros, Anderson Valley, the Sonoma Coast and Marin County, aged in the property's historic caves. The range runs from the entry-tier Mirabelle cuvées through the vintage-dated Blanc de Blancs, Blanc de Noirs and Brut Rosé, up to J. Schram and Schramsberg Reserve as the top tier, plus small-lot bottlings such as the single-vineyard Nobles Vineyard Blanc de Noirs and the Napa Valley Crémant Demi-Sec.

Facts read from schramsberg.com

What's on file

1965

founded

as stated by the producer

Address

1400 SCHRAMSBERG RD

Where it's registered

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The ground it sits on

Sub-AVA · Diamond Mountain District

5.9

pH, 1:1 water

13.8cm

, whole profile

88cm

to

Well drained

, dominant condition

Distribution across 27 · mean ◆, median │, p10–p90 bar

5.9
9.6%
17.4%
available water
13.8cm
depth to restriction
88cm

Dominant

  • 55.9%
  • 15.3%
  • 13.4%
  • 10.6%
  • 3.4%

27 map units · soil described over 95.3% of the region’s area · 10.0% is water, rock outcrop or other non-soil · 96% of the described area has a restrictive layer within the profile.

Wines

14 of 14 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.