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The CAST Custom Barrel Program

Custom barrels in the barrel room at CAST Wines.

Be the Winemaker! You’ll produce 24 cases of your very own custom wine, custom labels, and personalized barrel head delivered to you. The craft of Winemaking has long been romanticized. Visions of rolling vineyards, beautiful estates, large wooden casks, the smell of the barrel room, storied vintages, and intimate tasting rooms. So many of our…

CAST’s 10th Anniversary Wine Cruise

In Celebration of 10 years of CAST Wines and 25 years of Collier Falls wines, the Wine Cruise down the Lower Danube. Why a wine cruise? River cruises are an intimate and culturally rich setting wherein we get to enjoy getting better acquainted with our members while exploring an interesting part of the world. We have…

Rosé of Invocation Label Design Inspiration

Rosé of Invocation Label Design When designing wine labels at CAST, we use a process that leverages the personality traits of the flavors of wine to inform the final label design. This design process gives us the rationale for the design choices we make. And serves as a reminder of the…

CAST Wine’s Ten-Year Anniversary

CAST Wines is celebrating its 10th Anniversary.

Reflecting on the occasion of CAST Wines’ tenth anniversary. Launching a new winery. Buying a vineyard and launching a new winery with our friends ten years ago was, for Ann and me, one more adventure in a now 35 year marriage full of adventures. Having raised two daughters and lived and traveled in several regions,…

CAST Wine’s Estate Sparkling Passion

Passionate about sparkling wines and their connection to everyday celebrations When winemaker Ashley Herzberg joined CAST in 2019 there was already an established sparkling program. Here at CAST we based our sparkling program on a process of curating wines from regional vineyards. For instance, our Blanc de Noirs from the Napa Carneros region is just the latest vintage of…

CAST Wines Sustainable Farming Objectives

“Pour it forward” CAST Wines’ estate vineyard consists of 80% Zinfandel and 20% Petite Sirah, providing grapes for several of our wines. It was planted in 2000 by noted Sonoma County vineyard manager Ulises Valdez. Prior to 2000, our land was part of a large sheep ranch for decades – the heard actually still exists…

2020 Pét Nat Pinot Noir Production Notes

A note on Pét Nat Méthode Ancestrale is a method of sparkling wine production used all over the world. Unlike creation of sparkling wines via the traditional Méthode Champenoise, where sugar and yeast are added to still wines to trigger secondary fermentation and produce bubbles, Pét Nat works by bottling wine that is only partially…

The Winemaker’s Perch

The “Beach”

The Palm Patio

The Library and Palm Patio

The Library

The Terrace Lounge

The Tank Room

The Upper Terrace and Tank Room

The Upper Terrace

Label Designs and the CAST Creative Lab

There is a trend towards more modernity in the design of wine labels. As wine drinkers are trending younger, this emerging market is being met with more art-forward, Instagram appropriate label designs that are devoid of what you would call the typical information that we all thought was required in accordance with TTB. The new more art-forward renderings…