General manager: ‘Wines are meant to be enjoyed now.’
Frederic Ballario, center, tasting room manager at Domaine Eden, poses at the Saratoga winery with Coline LeConte of Edible Silicon Valley, left, and wine writer Laura Ness. For the first time in 20 years, the winery is open for weekend tastings, when visitors can sample wines from both Domaine Eden and its sister winery Mount Eden Vineyards.
Mount Eden faces southeast and is mostly above the fog line. “The soils are rocky and poor,” says Mount Eden winemaker Jeffrey Patterson. “At Domaine Eden, the vineyards are north facing, so it is cooler and the soil is like potting mix—dark and loose—with no rocks. It is night and day different.” Be advised that the tasting room is at the end of an unpaved road that is shared with hikers enjoying the bordering Sanborn Park.
“The soil at Mount Eden is rocky, and the vines go deep,” Reid adds. “This results in a more savory, restrained wine—one that is not driven by fruit. Vines at Domaine Eden have an easier life: there’s more water, and the soil is richer. There is more fruit, which means more youthful enjoyability.” Between 6,000 and 8,000 cases are made yearly under the Domaine Eden label, which is often double that of Mount Eden’s production. Today, all the red wine for both labels is made at Domaine Eden and all the chardonnay is made at Mount Eden.
“The Domaine Eden cabernet sauvignon is unique in that it is a pan-appellation blend of fruit from Saratoga and Los Gatos,” says Jeffrey Patterson. “It’s very black-fruited, and you can taste the iron in the soil, but the wine does not spend as much time in oak as the Mount Eden cabernet sauvignon.”
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