Sojourn Cellars

K_R_Baker · June 17, 2020, 6:04pm

Awesome wines and awesome people!

Philip_G · June 17, 2020, 6:59pm

Plus, styrofoam shipper but the bottles are wrapped in a plastic bag. Nice!

I understand needing to ship in styro due to weather but why doesn’t everybody just put the bottles in a baggie so we don’t get those little styrofoam pellets all over everthing?

MaiMadigan · July 10, 2020, 8:20pm

That is a big bottle of wine! Somebody must love you

Paul_Miller · July 10, 2020, 8:29pm

Had the 2017 Hame Ranch Cab the other night. It’s a big, heavy-duty Cab. Went great with a steak.

Dan_Hammer · July 10, 2020, 8:55pm

That time could have been in September of this year, not far from the source. Sadly, our travel plans have taken vacation without us.

dh

MaiMadigan · July 11, 2020, 4:32am

True words. Update you soon.

Paul_Miller · August 10, 2020, 4:01pm

Popped and poured a 2008 Sojourn Cabernet Sauvignon Proprietary Cuvée last night. We’ve been spending a lot of Covid-days time in the yard. We’ve been cooking A LOT on the grill - mostly pizzas - and drinking A LOT of wine, and also watching A LOT of videos. Last night was the free Elton John concert on Youtube.

The wine: Luscious is the word that first comes to mind. Nice mellow tannins. Loads of dark fruit, dark berries. Some chocolate/mocha. This wine is in a nice place. Went great with a steak.

Dan_Hammer · August 10, 2020, 5:48pm

Thanks for the note Paul. Gives me an excuse to open one of my 2 bottles to check it out.

Scott_E1 · August 26, 2020, 6:01pm

Fall offering is open! Thought I would see some postings by now. I picked up a mixed 6-pack (Ridgetop Pinot, Reuling Chard, Oakville Cab). What did you buy? Cheers!

Philip_G · August 26, 2020, 6:44pm

I’ll be putting my order in this weekend and probably going with some combo of:
Ridgetop, Riddle and Wohler Pinot Noir and the Reuling Chardonnay sounds interesting.

ToddFrench · August 26, 2020, 6:46pm

I notice that there is not much discussion here about Sojourn Cellars. I’ve been picking up more and more from them, including the last two Berserker Days. I’m really loving their Pinot Noirs and Zoomed in to their virtual tasting this week for their '18 Gaps Crown and Sangiacomo PNs. These were very tasty, especially the Sangiacomo, which really stood out for me as being fresh, creamy, with a great mouthfeel. They’re in some ways similar to Rivers-Marie and a good $10-$20 cheaper. Great quality IMO.

Their Cabs are also good quality and value although I’ve not been as big a fan of their entry level Oakville Cabernet. The Oakville Ranch is very good and the Georges III comes in at a pretty good price for a Beckstoffer.

They’re also super friendly and helpful by email and phone. We have (had?) plans to visit them this summer and their hospitality gal has been helping out tremendously with other places to go and places to eat.

So, just wanted to throw a shout out to what seems to me a top notch operation that doesn’t get a lot of posts. What are others experiences/opinions?

Cheers

A quick search brought up 3,470 matches to ‘Sojourn’, so it gets plenty of discussion here, and always has

One of the relatively early forum darlings, I recall

Paul_Miller · August 27, 2020, 1:57am

2010 Sojourn Cab, Georges III, Rutherford
Singing. Very smooth, almost an easy quaff! Red fruits up front, but then moved to more of the tart fruits towards to end, like cranberry. Lots of spice and cinnamon. Chocolate had dissipated. At a good point, but could hold another year or so.

Philip_G · August 27, 2020, 6:08pm

I notice that there is not much discussion here about Sojourn Cellars. I’ve been picking up more and more from them, including the last two Berserker Days. I’m really loving their Pinot Noirs and Zoomed in to their virtual tasting this week for their '18 Gaps Crown and Sangiacomo PNs. These were very tasty, especially the Sangiacomo, which really stood out for me as being fresh, creamy, with a great mouthfeel. They’re in some ways similar to Rivers-Marie and a good $10-$20 cheaper. Great quality IMO.

Their Cabs are also good quality and value although I’ve not been as big a fan of their entry level Oakville Cabernet. The Oakville Ranch is very good and the Georges III comes in at a pretty good price for a Beckstoffer.

They’re also super friendly and helpful by email and phone. We have (had?) plans to visit them this summer and their hospitality gal has been helping out tremendously with other places to go and places to eat.

So, just wanted to throw a shout out to what seems to me a top notch operation that doesn’t get a lot of posts. What are others experiences/opinions?

Cheers

A quick search brought up 3,470 matches to ‘Sojourn’, so it gets plenty of discussion here, and always has

One of the relatively early forum darlings, I recall

I wasn’t an early forum user and was just getting a discussion going on a winery I’ve been enjoying and hadn’t seen a lot of discussion about. There are now 6 topics with Sojourn for 2020, 1 in 2019 and 4 in 2018 vs 19 in 2015 and 2014.