Castle Rock Winery

Castle Rock Winery is an American winery in the Geyserville, California.[1][2]

Castle Rock Winery
LocationPalos Verdes Estates, California, USA
AppellationNapa Valley AVA
Founded1994
Key peopleGreg Popovich, Founder & President
Chris Noble, Partner
Cases/yr500,000
VarietalsCabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay
DistributionNational
WebsiteCastleRockWinery.com

Background

Founded in 1994,[3] the company started out as a virtual négociant winery buying wines on the bulk market to bottle at leased facilities.[4] The majority of the wine is sourced from long-term contracts that draw on fruit from California (Napa Valley, Sonoma County, Mendocino County, and Monterey County), Oregon (Willamette Valley) and Washington (Columbia Valley). Castle Rock Winery sells many different appellation-specific wines including Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Chardonnay, and Pinot Noir. The wines are widely distributed across the United States.[5]

Greg Popovich is the founder and President,[6] and Chris Noble is his partner.[7] The winery is run from a small suite of offices in the Palos Verdes Peninsula of California. The wines are produced from grapes grown in Oregon, Washington, and California. All the wines are produced and bottled at the Francis Ford Coppola facility in Sonoma County.[8]

The winemaker is Meghan Rech[9]who oversees the over 360,000 annual case production, making Castle Rock Winery one of the 50 largest wine companies out of more than 10,000 wineries in the United States.[10][11]

Castle Rock Winery was named as the best budget brand by the San Francisco Chronicle in 2005[12] and among the Value Brands of the Year by Wine & Spirits magazine in 2016.[13]

Greg Popovich is a graduate of Pepperdine University (MBA). Chris Noble is a graduate of Cambridge University (MA Mathematics).

References
  1. "Awash in Pinot Noir" Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
  2. "Wine grape bonanza for state's vineyards / Vintners juiced up over expected quality of 2nd-largest harvest" San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
  3. "Castle Rock Releases New “Dressage” Pinot Noir – First New Label in 25 Years" Wine Industry Advisor. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
  4. "Disintermediation: How Many People Did It Take to Make Your Wine?" Wine Economist. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
  5. "Castle Rock Winery" The Prince of Pinot. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
  6. "The life of the "other" Greg Popovich" ESPN. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
  7. "Castle Rock Winery Partners – A remote peninsula winery" Easy Reader News. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
  8. "Castle Rock Winery Celebrates 20 Years of Success" Wine Industry Advisor. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
  9. "Meghan Rech Joins Castle Rock Winery" Wine Business Monthly. Retrieved 2020-08-18.
  10. "50 Largest Wineries" Wine Business Monthly. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
  11. "50 Winery Profiles" Wine Business Monthly. Retrieved 2020-02-24.
  12. "The Chronicle’s best budget brands / Castle Rock Winery" San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
  13. "Value Brands of the Year 2016: United States" Wine & Spirits. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
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