As you may know, our home vineyard, Siebert Ranch, which has been in our family for three generations, was wiped out in the 2017 wildfires. We lost our house, barns, and -- in some ways hardest of all -- our beautiful Pinot Noir vineyard.

In the 19 months since the fires, we have done a huge amount of work toward our recovery and rebuilding. But there is still a huge amount of work to do. 

The most exciting news is that next week -- one year and seven months to the day since the fires -- we will be planting the first new vines of the new Siebert Ranch vineyard.

We often get asked, "What can I do to help you?" Well, we will have a few planting parties. Probably in July, so mark your calendars and let me know if you're interested.

But for now, we'd love to have you buy some Ancient Oak Cellars wine!

We've put together a few special offers that are specifically targeted as "Fire Recovery" wines.

The first is a vertical of Siebert Ranch Pinot: one bottle each of vintages 2007 through 2014, and four bottles of our reserve Pinot (called Alcman) that has a significant amount of Siebert Ranch Pinot in it as well.  We are offering that for $750 for the case of 12 bottles. 

The second special Siebert Ranch wine offering is a case of Rosé of Pinot made from the Siebert Ranch vines in 2018. Although the vineyard was almost completely killed, we were able to go on an "Easter egg hunt" (as winemaker Greg La Follette puts it) to find plants that had produced some grapes, and pick them the day before the big D8 bulldozer came to rip out the vines. We were on a schedule (dictated by the schedule of the D8 operator), so had to pick these grapes early, and therefore made a Rosé. This is the last wine we will have from the original Siebert Ranch. We are offering a pre-sale (it will be ready to get to you in mid-June) of a case of 12 bottles for $400.


If you want to buy either (or both) of these cases of wine, please visit our online store; if you have questions, please contact Melissa at melissa@ao.wine.

Thank you for your ongoing support of Ancient Oak Cellars' family-farmed wines. We couldn't do this without you.

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