We've Moved

It's official, our original tasting room and winery over on P Street is now closed.  Although our new tasting room on the corner of 29th & S Street is not quite ready yet, we are serving, selling & tasting wine in our new cellar. 

The cellar is cool, clean & airy.  A perfect place to sip wine and escape the heat of the summer.

To find the cellar, follow the signs and enter the building toward the alley on 29th Street.  You may park on the street or the dirt lot adjacent to Temple Coffee.
 
Join us for wine tasting in the new cellar Thursday & Friday 3-10pm, Saturday 1-10pm.

Live music scheduled on Thursdays & Fridays in July & August.  Please see our calendar for details.

Revolution takes Double Gold at California State Fair!

Revolution Wines is pleased to announce that our 2008 St Rey Single Quinta Ruby Port was awarded double gold (98 points), at the 2010 California State Fair wine competition. How big is that?

• Of over 3500 wines, only 35 received 98 points or higher.
• St Rey (by RevolutionWines) received the highest score of any port-style wine entered this year.

The St Rey Single Quinta Ruby Port is a genuine expression of the qualities of Sacramento as it was made by fifth-generation Sacramentan and winemaker, Craig Haarmeyer. The grapes in this wine are grown just 15 miles from the winery and downtown Sacramento.

The six port grapes varieties (Tinta Roriz, Tinto Cao, Souzao, Touriga Nacional, Touriga Francesa and Alvarelho) were harvested in late September, 2008 at an average of 24.5 brix, (relatively low sugars by todays standards) and were processed using the most gentle old-world port-making methods. The fortification occurred over the course of three days (sometimes during the middle of the night) which gives St Rey Port a graceful balance of fruit and sweetness, while keeping the alcohol notes very gentle.

St. Rey Wines is inspired by winemaker Craig Haarmeyer’s love for winemaking and especially his passion for Port style wines. St Rey is an homage to the various ascts of Craig’s family heritage and desire to produce something special from locally grown grapes. His mother, Celeste (Jimenez), is an inspiration and a Porto lover as well, who represents a multi-generation presence in Sacramento. His wife Kelly’s family, Souza, too, is from the Sacramento area. The grapes are grown by Ron Silva, in vineyards that lay less than a kilometer away from Craig’s cousins, Mike and Jane Kennefick and their ranch in southern Sacramento County near the town of Galt. This connection to family, to the land and the love of hand-made wines is expressed in every bottle of St. Rey wine.

Thanks to all who have supported our efforts and please share with us the joy we have found in making something so rewarding to enjoy.


A nossa!

Blog now the official Revolution Wines Home page!

How many times have you visited a website looking for information on a product or service just to find stale information, a "contact us" form or basically an online brochure? Isn't it nice when you go to a site with relevant and timely information?

After many design meetings, study of various CMS (content management systems) and other considerations, we've made the non conventional decision to use blogspot as our official web site.

We went with the blogspot for many reasons, it is easy to manage which will help us post timely and relevent information. The layout is clean and simple, and reletively easy to find content. It is extensible, so we can link in content from other sites (read: Facebook) without a lot of effort.

Our goal is to keep in touch with you, our customer, because you are the reason we exist. By keeping the site current and relevant we hope that you will visit more often, which will help us disseminate important and hopefully helpful information to you. We hope you find our site fun, interesting and easy to navigate. The pages can be found on the right - just above the Facebook Fan Box.