We recently bottled our 2013 vintage, our finale vintage. The 2013 wines include follow-up to our 2012 Reserve Cuvee, a special blend of Estate Zinfandel, Old Vine Carignane, and Estate Petite Sirah; and the other wine is an Old Vine Carignane Dessert wine. You'll love them both!

We also have inventory of 3 vintages of Old Vine Carignane available, all our 2012 vintage wines are still available, and we have a number of specials going on. And don't forget our selection of dessert wines. Check them all out on the order page, then call me to talk about wines not listed, and to put together a case of special wine - we'll work to give you great pricing in addition to great wine.

March 12th ~ Taste All Our New Wines

2012 Old Vine Carignane gets Gold & Video Review

The 2012 Toucan Wines Old Vine Carignane from the Evangelho vineyard was awarded a Gold medal from the San Diego Int. Wine Competition and recently reviewed by the Wine Weirdos - see the video by clicking here.

Also, take a close look at our Events schedule for an event near you.

Long Awaited 2012 Vintage Now Available...

The 2012 vintage offers our strongest line-up of wines since starting this journey. Please check out our line-up of four new wines all available today.

Thank you for your continued support of our small winery!

Fall, 2014

2011 Toucan Wines Old Vine Carignane - Two Golds and Silver Medal

Our 2011 Toucan Wines Old Vine Carignane has been awarded a Gold medal from the Pacific Rim Wine Competition, a Gold medal from the Orange County Wine Competition and a Silver medal from the California State Wine Competition. The fruit that makes up our Carignane is grown in Contra Costa County by Frank Evangelho. This old vine vineyard was planted in 1890 and produces the best Carignane fruit I've tasted. Order your own stash of old vine Carignane

2010 Estate Toucanet Released

You simply have to try this wine - our 2010 Estate Toucanet is our third release of a dessert wine from our small vineyard, produced from the desire to make an entirely estate based Port-styled dessert wine.

 

The 2010 release is bottled in traditional 500ml Porto styled bottles. This delicious dessert wine is not overly sweet and has amazing flavors of ripe, concentrated cherry.

 

Tasting of full-blown ripe cherry, mocha nose, and very well balanced after spending nearly 2 years in barrel prior to hand-bottling and nearly 2 years in the bottle developing before release.

 

Enjoy this wine with dessert, chocolate, sliced pears and cheeses, or on it's own by the fire.

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Toucan Wines Club – 30% off is now a 2 case commitment instead of 3

Introducing a change to the Toucan Wines Club, customers will now receive 30% off our regular pricing and will only commit to purchasing 2 full cases (24 bottles) over a twelve month period.

Join the Club by placing your next order via email or by calling me at the winery at 805-474-8514, and we’ll have you covered with 30% off all orders.

All Club orders must be placed directly as our online system will not process the Club discount.

2011 Toucan Wines Old Vine Carignane - Released

Our old vine Carignane is harvested from the low-yielding 120+ year old vines, grown in the Evangelho Vineyard located in Contra Costa County and planted in 1890.

This Evangelho grown fruit was the last harvested from the Evangelho vineyard in 2011. This last harvest assures us the ripest possible conditions from the choicest sweet spot in this amazing vineyard. We traveled to the vineyard, the morning of September 28th and returned with 8 full bins of amazing Carignane clusters.

That same afternoon, we crushed the fruit and then cold-soaked the must for 7 days before the natural yeast took hold. The wine slowly fermented and was pressed to a combination of mostly new French and Hungarian barrels.

After 22 months in fine oak barrels, and a total of three rackings, we proudly hand-bottled this wine unfined and unfiltered. The bottling of 238 cases took place the 3rd week of July, 2013. In addition to the standard 750ml bottles, we bottled five 3 liter double magnums.

The resulting wine from this heirloom varietal, grow is loaded with bursting fruit, very balanced acid and refined oak aging. Today, this wine is drinking beautifully, and should drink well for many years to come - depending on storage.

Back in Arroyo Grande at our estate vineyard, 2011 was the last of three very challenging years for our estate vineyard. As a result we could not produce our Estate Zinfandel or our Estate Petite Sirah. In 2011, this Old Vine Carignane and a small batch release of Old Vine Carignane Dessert Wine was all we produced.

Harvest: Sept. 28, 2011

Bottled: July 20-25, 2013

Production: 238 cases

Alcohol: 15.8

pH: 3.31

TA: .83

"Toucan Symphony" by Laurel Sherrie

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Toucan Wines 2010 Carignane - Gold from Orange County's Commercial Wine Competition

The Toucan Wines Carignane has been a favorite ever since we started producing it in 2006. Exclusively from the Evangelho Vineyard planted in 1890 and aged in mostly new oak for up to 22 months.

Our 2008 was awarded Gold & Best of Class, and the following release (as no 2009 was produced) our 2010 has been awarded Gold from Orange County's Commercial Wine Competition. We're also fortunate to have both a 2011 and 2012 Old Vine Carignane from this wonderful vineyard currently resting in barrels.

Late Bottling of 2009 Estate Zinfandel Releases (40 cases)

Our 2009 Late Bottling Estate Zinfandel Releases.... after 26 months in barrel and nearly a year and half in bottle, the second bottling (B2) of our Estate Zinfandel is available. See more here, and watch the Wine Weirdos talk about our 09' Zinfandel... Only 40 cases produced - order soon!