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After fermentation, most wines spend anywhere from several months to a a year or two aging, generally in oak barrels. This isn’t just tradition, oak aging makes wine taste better. The most importan...
HARVEST 101 It’s a common saying in the industry that creating wine consists of two months of frantic wine making (that’s harvest) and ten months of wine selling. This year (2023) the Sta. Rita Hil...
COOL CLIMATE WINES But why does a cool climate matter so much? Great wines taste delicious when they have the perfect balance between acid, alcohol, and sugar (which turns into alcohol through ferm...
THE HISTORY OF WINE Wine is old! The earliest records of grape wine production have been traced back to ~7000 BC in what is modern day Georgia, in Eastern Europe. Archaeologists have also found evi...
HOW ARE WINE GRAPES DIFFERENT, AND WHY DOES THAT MAKE DIFFERENT WINE? The differences in how a wine tastes comes from the differences in the grapes' chemical & biological structures, ...
Learn our regions
VOON Grüner Veltliner grapes are sourced from the Fiddlestix Vineyard in the Sta Rita Hills AVA.
Winding down Santa Rosa Road from Highway 1 will lead you to the one of the most exclusive vineyards in the Sta Rita Hills AVA, Bentrock Vineyard.
The Happy Canyon of Santa Barbara AVA (American Viticulture Area) is one of the youngest regions to get AVA status in the Central Coast... We find they impart our wines with a mineral flavor that a...
We chose a Cabernet Sauvignon from the Oak Knoll District of Napa Valley in our inaugural wine release to show the world that VOON Wines will always be world-class wines.
THE STA. RITA HILLS AVA By now, you’ve heard us talk about how the Sta. Rita Hills AVA (American Viticulture Area) is our favorite wine region in the United States. In fact, right now it’s the only...