Wines
The Larkmead wine collection includes four prominent labels and each wine presents distinct portraits of the large and varied estate. The Cabernet Sauvignon is assembled from a range of blocks, blending all of the many soil types and clonal selections together into a single complex whole. Firebelle is a traditional Bordeaux style blend, prominently featuring Merlot. Lillie is the illustrious Sauvignon Blanc, crafted in tiny quantities and aged in a variety of unique vessels for a truly distinct character. The flagship Larkmead wine is Solari, crafted from Cabernet Sauvignon-dominant blocks that best capture the balance and purity of the estate vineyard. Solari showcases the estate purely and is a classic expression of Napa Valley Cabernet with notes of bramble, violets, and baking spices that are signatures of the storied Larkmead estate.
Throughout the years, Larkmead Vineyards has produced a handful of wines for a limited number of vintages, such as Dr. Olmo and The Lark. These bottlings showcase the diversity of terroir across the storied estate, when a given vintage blesses the vineyards with distinct fruit deserving of bottling on its own.
“The wines at Larkmead have always beautifully showcased a sense of time and place. Focusing our continued efforts to convert to organic and sustainable farming, we are afforded the highest quality grapes which allow us to make wines with incredible distinction and balance.”
- Avery Heelan, Winemaker
The wines are available for purchase through a Solari Membership or by making an appointment to visit the historic vineyard estate. Select wines can be purchased online by joining the Mailing List.
White Wines
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1 Fruit sampling is vital when making harvest decisions.
2 The morning fog burns off right on schedule.
3 Small lot fermenters allow us to capture the unique terroir of each vineyard parcel.
4 Winemaker Avery Heelan sampling wine from barrel.
5 Our red wines age for 20 months in French Oak before bottling.
6 The 2013 vintage rolling off the bottling line.