What's New?
We are pleased to again be sourcing Zinfandel grapes from the Teldeschi Home Ranch located in the Dry Creek Valley of Sonoma county. Look for the 2011 Zinfandel from this vineyard to be available late this year. The 2009 Cabernet and the 2010 Chardonnay from the Antinori Estate are now available, the 2010 Pinot will be released in April, and the 2010 Sangiovese will get bottled in March for a release in late spring. We have gotten so many new Founders Club members that we are almost at our goal of 40 members. There is only one more membership available!
Recent Awards
- 2009 Chardonnay
Bronze - Orange County
Bronze - San Francisco
Bronze - Finger Lakes - 2009 Sangiovese
Silver - Orange County - 2009 Pinot Noir
Silver - Riverside
Bronze - San Francisco
Silver - Finger Lakes
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Contact Info
Phone and email:
(650) 728-3613 |
Address:
151-A Harvard Ave.
Half Moon Bay, CA 94019
Welcome
Trojak~Knier Winery was started by two long time friends, Jim Knier and Eric Trojak, in 1993 as a home wine making project in Jim's garage in Montara California. With borrowed equipment we made a thirty gallon barrel of Zinfandel from a vineyard in Gilroy and a thirty gallon barrel of Cabernet Sauvignon from the Antinori Estate in the Eastern mountains above the Napa Valley. In 1995 we started sourcing our Zinfandel grapes from the Teldeschi ranch in Dry Creek west of Healdsburg. We continued making Zinfandel and Cabernet for several years and then branched out to include Sangiovese, Merlot, Pinot Noir and Chardonnay sourced from various vineyards.
In 2003 we moved the operation to a warehouse in Princeton Harbor were we continued to expand the amount of wine we were making. In 2009 we decided it was time to go commercial and received our full licensing in September of that year. The total case production for 2009 is about 350 cases
Our wine making philosophy can best be described as truly hand crafted and non-interventionist. We consider ourselves to be caretakers of the fruit and seek to let the flavors of the vineyard express themselves in the wine. In order to make great wines you must start with great grapes. We do all winery operations by hand from loading the crusher/stemmer to bottling, corking and labeling the wine. We do not filter or use any fining agents and all wines are transferred by gravity siphon, whether from barrel-to-barrel or in the bottling process. As a result, our wines may throw a little sediment after some time in the bottle but this is not a flaw - it is an indication of the truly handcrafted nature of our wines.