In recent times there has been more emphasis on securing vineyard land and making estate bottled wines from the bodegas.
No doubt at the boy's instigation, Deborah had taken a bottle of my father's estate wine from the cellar.
A tasting of five estate wines is $5.
While initially only a vineyard, a winery was built with the first estate wines produced in 1984.
As required by the legislation, the grapes used in making the estate wine must be grown on the estate itself.
In addition to the estate wine, there is produced a second wine named The Maiden.
They specialise in estate bottled wines shipped directly from the vineyards.
The Kronos is an estate wine and made from organic grapes.
The wine list offers a wide choice of celebrated and little-known estate wines.
Some are estate wines like the best of Bordeaux and Burgundy.