Fifth-generation Napa natives John and Maggy Kongsgaard produce The Judge, Chardonnay, VioRous, Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon. Shy-bearing vineyards and traditional low-intervention winemaking techniques produce powerful, graceful wines — high intensity expressions of vineyard and variety. The core of their endeavor is the ten-acre vineyard they planted in the late 1970s on a rocky hilltop in southern Napa Valley which has belonged to the Kongsgaard family since the 1920s. In addition to these family acres, they direct the farming under long-term contract on another seven acres in the Napa Carneros and three acres near St. Helena. The winery, on the eastern rim of Napa Valley, is a cave drilled into the volcanic rock. Production is limited to what they can make with their own hands.
Wines from Kongsgaard Winery
- Kongsgaard VioRous
2006
- Kongsgaard Chardonnay 2006, Napa Valley
Napa Valley, Napa County, California, USA
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- Kongsgaard Chardonnay 2001
2001 Rated 98/100
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- Kongsgaard Chardonnay 2005
2005 Rated 95/100
Shipping from: - Kongsgaard Chardonnay 2000
2000 Rated 95/100
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2002 Rated 94/100
Shipping from: - Kongsgaard Chardonnay 1998
1998 Rated 94/100
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1998 Rated 93/100
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| Napa Valley wine pioneer Peter Newton dies at age 81 “One of the privileges was that the top scholar bought the wine for the cellars at Oxford,” Kongsgaard said. Newton went to Pomerol in the Bordeaux region of France and, thinking about the budget, bought merlot, which were “some of the ... |
| The Judge 2003 from Kongsgaard John Kongsgaard and Chardonnay joined forces already in the early 1980s, when John worked at the legendary Napa Valley winery Stony Hill, and later on from 1986 to 1996 at Newton Estate up at Spring Mountain. There, the wild fermented ... |
