Great wines are more than the result of applying clean winemaking principles — they reflect the winemaker as surely as a meal reflects its chef. All too often, modern mass formula winemaking practices result in uninteresting “same taste” wines that have lost their sense of place — that taste the same whether produced in Chile, Australia or here in the U.S. At Cricket Hill we’ve gone out of our way to revive time proven and sometimes more difficult Old World winemaking techniques to achieve our Winemaster’s demand that all Cricket Hill Estate wines express the complexity and balance characteristic of their noble heritage and the special terror of the Estate.