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Great wines for a good cause.

Nice setting, great wine and no corporate vibe you get from a lot of the other Napa vineyards. Highly recommend!

Boutique wines to be sure. Very limited releases, friendly staff, a casual vibe, and pretty reasonable prices. We didn't particularly like the wines, ourselves, but we appreciated the experience and the quality put forth into the wine production. Some pretty good blends in particular.

Coffaro Wines is a family-run winery of the type that used to dominate the Russian River Valley. David Coffaro's specialty is blending and he has an uncanny ability to put together winning wines from exceptional grapes, both estate grown and locally purchased. Finished wines are available for purchase, but the best deal by far (if you have the patience) is to purchase futures in the Spring (prices are usually announced in April or May) for delivery about 15 months later. These are sold at a substantial discount to the retail and the bang for the buck is enormous, since these are top-shelf wines. The majority of their offerings are red, but they've often put together a white or two, and the occasional (and delicous) Rosé. Informal, unstuffy, and highly recommended.

I like their wines but I've been served a Pinot more than once that was well past its day. This was apparent by the vintage (I tend to see this lighter wine served young) and taste, but was also clear from the slashed prices. I feel for the loss but unloading spoiled wine isn't acceptable. Witnessed a customer try to return a case of it -- said they'd had too much at the time and realized it was spoiled when they tried it sober at home. Kind of a dirty tactic. Service was good, if a bit baselessly pretentious. For the record, I believe they DID accept the return. I'm not personally a huge fan of this region's wines (prefer central coast and Sonoma) but they do have some solid wines.

One of my favorite Pinot's. They have picnic tables and if your lucky, David himself may pour.

Really nice tasting room, beautiful grounds in the secluded Santa Cruz mountains, and enthusiastic and knowledgeable service. And of course, delicious pinot noir. David Bruce's skills are on full display with really delicious, complex red wines.

Excellent pinot noir and Burgundian style chardonnays. Great deal on their sampler case!