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• 2009 Release of '08 RIESLING AND '07 Chardonnay, plus re-release of '02 Riesling. • 2008 Release of '07 RIESLING AND '04 CABERNET SAUVIGNON Nov. 2008 Smith-Madrone Winery has just released its 2007 Riesling (365 cases produced, at $25.00 per 750 ml bottle) and 2004 Cabernet Sauvignon (2,175 cases produced, at $40.00 per 750 ml bottle). • Smith-Madrone 35th Anniversary Launch Spring Mountain, St. Helena, Napa Valley, California, summer 2006---Smith-Madrone Winery is celebrating its 35th anniversary virtually by launching a new website---www.SmithMadroneis35.com. It details the winery’s achievements, the background of the two brothers who established the winery, the unusual history of the property and has a spot for people to reminisce about what 35 years as a vineyard-estate winery on top of Spring Mountain in the Napa Valley means in today’s world. Each page of the website includes reminiscences, such as Stu’s musing that “my brother Charlie and I not only drove all of the stakes around the winery but all of the stakes in the vineyard---a total of 19,000. We endured smashed thumbs, months of ongoing poison oak and heat exhaustion from picking up rocks. Fortunately for us, we loved it. I feel enormously fortunate to be able to do what it is that I love. It was a wonderful time, in essence the renaissance of the modern California wine business.” Read complete press release. • HEDONIST IN THE CELLAR • WHAT'S THE MOST POPULAR PHOTO IN THE WINE WORLD? St. Helena, Napa Valley, September 2004---A dramatically beautiful image of fog creeping over steep rows of mountain vineyard at Smith-Madrone Vineyards, taken by photographer Chuck O?Rear in 1988, may well be the most popular photograph in the wine world. See photos and read full text. •SMITH-MADRONE CHARDONNAY WINS
PLATINUM-BEST OF SHOW San Diego, CA, June 2004---Smith-Madrone Winery’s
2001 Chardonnay was awarded the Critics’ Platinum Award and tied
with the 2003 Vionta Albarino for Best of Show-White Wine at the Critics
Challenge wine competition in San Diego, held May 29-30. The Chardonnay
is grown at an elevation of 1,800 feet on top of Spring Mountain in the
Napa Valley. • 3 SPRING MOUNTAIN DISTRICT WINES HONORED BY WINE SPECTATOR Smith-Madrone, Pride, Paloma chosen in "Top 100" issue. Dec. 2003 Three wines from one of Napa Valley's oldest and least-known appellations---the Spring Mountain District---received enormous honors in The Wine Spectator's annual "Top 100" issue now on newstands. Read full text • It's Déjà Vu All Over Again: Re-Release of the '97 Riesling Smith-Madrone Vineyards & Winery is taking the unusual step of re-releasing a limited quantity of its 1997 Riesling this fall. Why?... • Summer 2002 Press Release HOW MANY GOLD MEDALS CAN ONE WINE WIN? Learn more about the method (and madness?...) behind our Medal Standings! Read full text • April 2002 Press Release Smith-Madrone Vineyards & Winery was awarded a sweepstakes gold Medal for its 1999 Chardonnay and a bronze medal for its 2000 Riesling at the Monterey Wine Competition.. Plus, about our new WEB SITE Read full text. • February 2002 Press Release 2 GOLDS AT SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
WINE COMPETITION "Congratulations to Smith-Madrone for its gold medals! The San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition is one of the top ten wine competitions in the country for the number of entries. We salute Smith-Madrone for their excellence in winemaking," said Bob Fraser, the Competition's Executive Director. Read full text. |
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Hedonist in the Cellar: Adventures in Wine has just been published
by Alfred A. Knopf. This is a compilation of Jay McInerney’s wine reporting
over the past several years for Conde Nast House & Garden Magazine.
Known for his ground-breaking book Bright Lights, Big City, McInerney
has published seven works of fiction as well as an earlier book about
wine, Bacchus & Me. The book profiles many winemakers and wineries
from around the world; the only Napa Valley winery profiled at length
is Smith-Madrone Winery, in a section of the book called “Lovers, Fighters
and Other Obsessives.” The chapter about Smith-Madrone (“Mountain Men:
The Smith Brothers of Smith-Madrone”) appeared originally as McInerney’s
House & Garden wine column in June, 2005. This section includes profiles
of Michel Chapoutier, Greg Brewer and Steve Clifton, Remirez de Ganuza,
Willy Frank and Randall Grahm.