Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival – 2010 NYC Wine & Food Festival Auction
Auction Ends: Oct 15, 2010 05:00 PM EDT

Wine

Six Bottles of Kistler Wine

Item Number
299
Sold
450 USD to rpufahl
Number of Bids
5  -  Bid History

Item Description

Treat yourself to 6 bottles of Kistler Wine. This package includes 4 bottles of Chardonay and 2 bottles of Pinot Noir. 

These wines have received Parker ratings from 93-97.

Kistler Vineyards is a small, family established and privately owned and operated winery dedicated to the vinification of world class Chardonnay and Pinot Noir using old world Burgundian techniques applied to our new world vineyards.

We have consistently bottled some of the finest new world examples of these two varietals  for over 30 years.

We produce single vineyard Chardonnay and Pinot Noirs, that are available exclusively to our mailing list members.

Both our Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are crafted utilizing classic Burgundian techniques.

Our wines are produced solely by native yeasts. Our barrels are crafted from French oak that is aged to our specifications and specifically tailored to our program. All of our wines are bottled unfiltered and unfined.

Kistler Chardonnay is barrel fermented in our subterranean, gravel floor barrel rooms, and is aged sur lie in those same barrels, remaining for eleven to eighteen months until bottling.

Kislter Pinot Noir is fermented in small open top fermenters and the free run juice is barrel aged and remains in barrel for fourteen to eighteen months until bottling.

The vineyard sources for our wines stretch from western Sonoma county, some five miles from the Pacific to Carneros, just north of San Francisco Bay.

The majority of our vineyards are owned and farmed by Kistler Vineyards. We also have long standing relationships with some of the finest growers in Sonoma and Napa County.

Our vineyards are meticulously farmed, in order to produce wines of intense focus, and natural balance. Our yields average two and a half tons per acre.

In deference to site, each of our ten Chardonnay bottlings are grown from the same heritage clone of Chardonnay that we have been raising for thirty years.

Each of those bottlings is vinified in the same fashion, the only difference in the wines being the site on which they are grown.

Kistler Vineyards was founded in 1978 by the Kistler family. The first vintage in 1979 produced 3,500 cases of wine and since then the winery has slowly grown to the planned production level of about 25,000 cases per year.

Steve Kistler received a B.A. from Stanford University, studied at U.C. Davis and Fresno State University for two years, and was an assistant at Ridge Vineyards for two years before founding Kistler Vineyards. He serves as winemaker and oversees vineyard operations.

Mark Bixler received degrees from M.I.T. and U.C. Berkeley, taught Chemistry at Fresno State University for seven years, and worked at Fetzer Vineyards for two years prior to founding Kistler Vineyards with Steve. Mark oversees the lab work and is the business manager for Kistler Vineyards.

Jason Kesner joined Kistler Vineyards in the summer of 2008. Jason managed Hudson vineyards from 2000-2008, the source of one of our finest wines. Jason serves as the assistant winemaker, and helps to oversee the vineyard operations.

Ed Hogan joined Kistler Vineyards in 2009. After working in his family’s retail wine business, working his way through the wine regions of France and playing key roles in the Winespell wine brokerage, Henry Wine Group and Pahlmeyer, Ed now serves as Director of National Sales for Kistler Vineyards.

Item Special Note

Please note that this item cannot be shipped outside of New York. Must be 21 years or older. Additional shipping fee of $75 applies to this item.

Donated By:

Harriet and Gene Becker