I hope you enjoy the “vineyard expression” in each of our wines. Along with fruit, balance is vitally important, and at Bell Wine Cellars we strive to find the quintessential balance between fruit, acid, oak and tannins, in producing our wines. My style of winemaking is to emphasize the fruit and employ vinification techniques that will capture and accentuate the fruit expression unique to each vineyard. Vertical Tasting of Arietta Red Wine H Block Hudson Vineyards Napa Valley (Jun 2011) Checking in on Piedmont’s 2000 Vintage (Jun 2011) Focus on Californias North. Our wines are often referred to as having an Old World elegance and sophistication. Vinous Interactive Vineyard Maps give readers a totally new and engaging way to learn more about specific vineyards and then explore the wines that emerge from those sites. To compliment the efforts of the winegrower, we strive to produce luxury wines that exhibit wonderful balance. From Rutherford in the heart of the Napa Valley, to the Sierra Foothills, each vineyard I purchase grapes from is blessed with a unique terroir. I seek out these extraordinary vineyards with their unique microclimates, and working closely with the winegrower, strive to optimize the fullest potential of each property. In California we are blessed with a great variety of microclimates, each capable of producing grapes of extraordinary quality and style. ![]() “We are merely stewards of nature while the wine is in our cellar.” “Wine is grown in the vineyard.”, explains Bell. The French term encapsulates the factors which play a role in differentiating one vineyard site from another, including climate, soil, clonal selection, etc. Long before it became fashionable to talk about wine growing, about winemakers crafting wines from the vineyards rather than from the cellar, Anthony Bell was pursuing a philosophy of terroir.
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