The Prisoner Wine Company
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Editorial profile
The Prisoner Wine Company, based in St. Helena, built its name on The Prisoner itself — a proprietary red blend that redefined what a Napa Valley red could be by mixing unconventional grapes rather than pursuing single-varietal Cabernet Sauvignon. Every wine in the portfolio carries its own proprietary name rather than a varietal label, so composition is stated only where the producer's own page states it: The Prisoner line also runs to a Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, a Carneros Chardonnay and a Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir.
Saldo, the company's Zinfandel-rooted second label, spans a California Zinfandel and Red Blend alongside single-lot and single-varietal bottlings — Falanghina, Carignan, Chenin Blanc, a Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel and a Syrah from the Orsi vineyard. Unshackled offers broadly sourced varietal wines (Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Sauvignon Blanc, and a sparkling wine). Smaller proprietary lines round out the roster: Blindfold (a Sauvignon Blanc and a Blanc de Noir), Domaine Curry (Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon and a Founders Red Blend), Dérangé, Thorn Merlot, and Divulge, a low-alcohol white blend from Stags Leap District. Where a page does not spell out a blend's grape composition, this atlas leaves the varietals field blank rather than guess.
Facts read from theprisonerwinecompany.com
What's on file
Address
1178 GALLERON RD
Wines
the flagship blend that launched the brand; components not stated on page
Cabernet Sauvignon · Central Coast
page: "Grab a Cab from the Central Coast"
components not stated on page
carbonic maceration
single-vineyard: Orsi
base grape not stated on page
Domaine Curry Founders Red Blend
components not stated on page
components not stated on page
low-alcohol white wine blend, per page title; components not stated
25 of 25 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.