Fredericks (Weiss)

AVA

Sonoma Valley

Decade

1930s

County

Sonoma

Current Owner

Dick Fredericks

Planted by

Weiss Family

Location Notes

Nelligan Road up Nuns Canyon

Wineries

Kenwood, Sebastiani

Historical Producers

Turley

Description

Fredericks Vineyard consists of three main plantings. One section is a gentle south-facing slope that was planted in 1937. The second section was planted in 1943 and is a south-facing terraced, contoured hillside. The third section (non-historic) was planted to Zinfandel in 2008 with cuttings from the Hayne Vineyard in Napa and the DuPratt vineyard in Mendocino. This three acre section replaced a block of Ruby Cabernet dating back to the 1940s.

Different sections of the vineyard can ripen a month apart due to the different exposures and aspects. All vines are head-trained and dry-farmed. The vineyard is organically farmed by Chuy Ordaz and his Palo Alto vineyard management team in cooperation with Turley Wine Cellars.

Submitted by

Tegan Passalacqua

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