“It’s like having picture books of your childhood: The wine represents a historical record. All of these vintages are still with us, not lost.” —Christopher Howell
“Why would you have 100,000 wines, or even 100 wines – if they don’t easily give us some unique expression and reflection of the place and time where they grew, and the hands that grew and made them? Wine is a conversation!” —Christopher Howell
Christopher Howell deserves more recognition for the amazing consistency, longevity and sophistication that his wines from this striking Spring Mountain site routinely achieve.
“The disordered rows, the irregular vines, the scent of the scrub – all of this conspires to give a sense of wildness that more well-bred vineyards could never evince.” —Christopher Howell
“I think the Cabernet has a green character—I hesitate to call it vegetal—in the mountains. It won’t go away even at absurd levels of sugar. One idea is that it’s due to fir trees (in the same way eucalyptus can color wines), but I think it is just plain colder.” —Christopher Howell
