CADE Estate Winery
Danielle Cyrot's Sauvignon Blanc and Cabernet, tasted sixty minutes at a time from 1,850 feet on Howell Mountain. By appointment, daily, 10 to 4.
Why go
The tasting is one room and two grapes: current-release Sauvignon Blanc and Cabernet Sauvignon, both made by Danielle Cyrot.1 You drink them at 1,850 feet above the valley floor, which is high enough to change the ripening and the nights.1 The vineyard is farmed organically.1 CADE also says it was the first LEED Gold certified estate in California, a claim it publishes without a year.1
Order this / avoid
- Order: the Current Release Tasting. Sixty minutes, seated, and it is the only format on the page.1
- Avoid: turning up with kids or a dog. The estate refuses anyone under 21, infants included, and every animal that is not a certified service dog.1
Good to know
- Hours: daily by appointment, 10am to 4pm.1
- Groups: eight or more go through Kevin Ferry, the estate manager, rather than the booking page.1
- Price: the winery publishes none. Ask when you book.
- Hygiene: not established. No inspection instrument for this county is on file here.
Verdict
could-visit — Danielle Cyrot makes Sauvignon Blanc and Cabernet at 1,850 feet on Howell Mountain, and the tasting is sixty minutes seated with those two wines in front of you, which is a clearer offer than most of this valley manages. The estate farms organically and says it was California's first LEED Gold winery, a claim it has published undated and that nobody else has been read to confirm. It is strict: nobody under 21, no dogs. No price is published and no critic has written about the wine in anything read here, so the rung reflects the evidence and not the mountain.