We’re excited to share the following accolades received by the wineries along the Wine Road.
If you don’t see your favorite winery, don’t despair. Not all wineries send their wines for review or to competitions, but that doesn’t make their wines any less delicious.
Many of our winery members produce small lots of wine, so their case production is too small to meet the criteria for wine competitions. Plus, most reviewing sources require a wine be either distributed out of state or produced in large enough quantity to be available for purchase for several weeks after the review is published.
We hope this list of scores and awards will encourage you to explore new wines and new wineries on your next visit along the Wine Road.
Woodenhead Winery, Press Democrat North Coast Wine Challenge, Gold
Wine: 2017 Pinot Noir, Ritchie Vineyard, Cinder Cone, Russian River Valley
Purchase: https://woodenheadwine.com/wines/current-releases/
Phone: 707-887-2703
Date Awarded: 4/11/22
The Vineyard: This block is planted to 9 double rows of both Martini #58 and Pommard #5 clones. A total of 910 vines planted in 1972. 45 years old this vintage. One of the oldest plantings of Pinot Noir in the State of california. The soil profile is two feet of Goldridge loam on top of volcanic cinder cone material. Unique! Tasting Notes: Beautiful medium dark ruby in color. Deep, rich, complex perfume of spice and incense, smoke and licorice, peppermint and forest floor. Intriging to say the least. The palate is robust, black fruited, bramble berry, dark plum with a hint of tangerine rind followed ...
Purchase: https://woodenheadwine.com/wines/current-releases/
Phone: 707-887-2703
Date Awarded: 4/11/22
The Vineyard: This block is planted to 9 double rows of both Martini #58 and Pommard #5 clones. A total of 910 vines planted in 1972. 45 years old this vintage. One of the oldest plantings of Pinot Noir in the State of california. The soil profile is two feet of Goldridge loam on top of volcanic cinder cone material. Unique! Tasting Notes: Beautiful medium dark ruby in color. Deep, rich, complex perfume of spice and incense, smoke and licorice, peppermint and forest floor. Intriging to say the least. The palate is robust, black fruited, bramble berry, dark plum with a hint of tangerine rind followed ...
Woodenhead Winery, Press Democrat North Coast Wine Challenge, Silver
Wine: 2019 Sparkl;ing "Naturale" Methode Champenoise, Russian River Valley
Purchase: https://woodenheadwine.com/wine/woodenhead-2019-sparkling-naturale-methode-champenoise/
Phone: 707-887-2703
Date Awarded: 4/11/22
Racy and tart, bone dry, with mineral expressions. A pick-me-up for the palate. Great with oysters on the half shell.
Purchase: https://woodenheadwine.com/wine/woodenhead-2019-sparkling-naturale-methode-champenoise/
Phone: 707-887-2703
Date Awarded: 4/11/22
Racy and tart, bone dry, with mineral expressions. A pick-me-up for the palate. Great with oysters on the half shell.
Woodenhead Winery, Sonoma County Harvest Fair, Double Gold
Wine: 2020 Pinot Noir, Starbridge Vineyard, Sonoma Coast
Purchase: https://woodenheadwine.com/wine/woodenhead-2020-pinot-noir-starbridge-vineyard-sonoma-coast/
Phone: 707-887-2703
Date Awarded: September 2022
A light to medium bright ruby color. Heavenly honeyed baked spice aromatics, toasty oak, with Manzanita flower, some citrus peel, and a grounded Douglas fir/pine forest floor perfume. Changes slowly to more red berries and perhaps lavender honey, subtle but intoxicating, mysterious, and sophisticated. Boasts forth on the palate with juicy red fruits, cardamom spice, blood orange, and earth. Not heavy, more ethereal. Mid palate entry has a delicate richness. Understated power which pleases the palate and a long silky finish—unlike anything else in our selection of wines. I could go on and on, but you be the ...
Purchase: https://woodenheadwine.com/wine/woodenhead-2020-pinot-noir-starbridge-vineyard-sonoma-coast/
Phone: 707-887-2703
Date Awarded: September 2022
A light to medium bright ruby color. Heavenly honeyed baked spice aromatics, toasty oak, with Manzanita flower, some citrus peel, and a grounded Douglas fir/pine forest floor perfume. Changes slowly to more red berries and perhaps lavender honey, subtle but intoxicating, mysterious, and sophisticated. Boasts forth on the palate with juicy red fruits, cardamom spice, blood orange, and earth. Not heavy, more ethereal. Mid palate entry has a delicate richness. Understated power which pleases the palate and a long silky finish—unlike anything else in our selection of wines. I could go on and on, but you be the ...
Woodenhead Winery, Sonoma County Harvest Fair, Gold
Wine: 2017 Pinot Noir, Buena Tierra Vineyard, Clone 115, Block E, RRV
Purchase: https://woodenheadwine.com/wine/woodenhead-2017-pinot-noir-buena-tierra-vineyard-e-block-clone-115-rrv/
Phone: 707-887-2703
Date Awarded: September 2022
2017 was marked by a generous vintage, with incredible Pinot Noirs produced in the Russian River Valley. Colors of medium bright red rubies. Perfume of cherry blossoms, musk rose, plums, spicy cherry pie, some nutmeg, and toasty oak, with sort of a Russian River wildness to it. The smell of the river environment at dusk when it’s still, a kind of herbal vegetal greenness that is the Riparian zone. So much going on here—yum! The palate bursts forth with a richness of black cherries, cola, rhubarb, green tea, and juiciness. All with a touch of forest floor, which is ...
Purchase: https://woodenheadwine.com/wine/woodenhead-2017-pinot-noir-buena-tierra-vineyard-e-block-clone-115-rrv/
Phone: 707-887-2703
Date Awarded: September 2022
2017 was marked by a generous vintage, with incredible Pinot Noirs produced in the Russian River Valley. Colors of medium bright red rubies. Perfume of cherry blossoms, musk rose, plums, spicy cherry pie, some nutmeg, and toasty oak, with sort of a Russian River wildness to it. The smell of the river environment at dusk when it’s still, a kind of herbal vegetal greenness that is the Riparian zone. So much going on here—yum! The palate bursts forth with a richness of black cherries, cola, rhubarb, green tea, and juiciness. All with a touch of forest floor, which is ...