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Enjoy this 2-minute video of stemming and crushing the Cabernet Franc from our Estate here at the Goosecross winery in Yountville, Napa Valley. Join us on our crushpad – you’ll see how the freshly picked grapes go into the hopper and are fed into the small machine called a crusher-stemmer before going into a fermentation tank. Fermentation... [Read more of this post]

New Release: You’re in for something deliciously sweet - our 2008 Muscat Canelli is dessert in a glass! Light as air, but intensely flavorful it’s loaded with apricot, peach, lychee and orange blossom. What could be better on a warm afternoon? And, do notice our stunning new label (if we do say so ourselves). Muscat Canelli and food:... [Read more of this post]

Wine & Recipe of The Month

Happy New Year! All of us at Goosecross wish you a happy and healthy 2010! On these cold winter days we always turn to comfort food – the kind that warms us from the inside. Colleen developed the recipe for these slow-cooked short ribs to warm your kitchen and your heart. The fork-tender short ribs with their deep, smoky flavors, ancho chiles... [Read more of this post]

Wine Education Articles

Scroll down for a 3-course, all-chocolate menu for Valentine’s Day! In 1528, when Hernando Cortez first brought chocolate to Spain from the Aztec Empire, it was considered the ultimate gift to bestow upon a loved one. Its rarity and seductive powers made it an unequivocal declaration of passion and devotion. The Aztecs believed chocolate to have... [Read more of this post]

When Rey and Patt Gorsuch, our founders, purchased the site where Goosecross is located it was a peaceful cow pasture. As they began prepping the land to plant Chardonnay they came to realize that it must have been inhabited by Native Americans at one time – the plows kept turning up arrow and spear heads, and not just a few! They also found some... [Read more of this post]

This grape is a mysterious seductress! A dyed in the wool Cabernet drinker will melt at the first whiff of heady, floral Muscat Canelli. Mysterious? It appears to be living under a number of assumed names. There are numerous grapes called Muscat, many of them redundant. Let’s talk about what it is before we address what it isn’t. In America,... [Read more of this post]