Our Wines
Odonata Wines Odonata produces small batches of each of our wines. Please stay in touch as we sell out quickly! Our wines are first released to our Preview Program Members, and the remaining (if any) is available for general release directly from the winery.
Odonata is the realization of my dream. I believe that high quality grapes are crucial for making high quality wines. Therefore, I am farming the majority of my production right here in the Santa Cruz Mountains. I work tirelessly in all of my vineyards and very closely with the growers of my other grapes. I feel it is essential to be in the vineyard to ensure the highest quality wine from the ground to the glass.
Current Releases
Santa Cruz Mountains
Peter Martin Ray Vineyard
Aromas of toasty oak dancing with stone fruits and pear come forward in this Chardonnay. Opulent fruit is at the forefront
of the experience, while crisp minerality flows through the core
and into the finish as a testament to this great vineyard. This
wine will pair with pretty much anything that is lightly
smoked. Chicken, seafood, and even spicy food would all be good. It would be a great accompaniment with many appetizers as well as move you
through a nice dinner of salmon, cream sauces and it would even play well with light
tomato sauces!
Alta Mesa
Grenache is a beautiful, versatile grape variety that can be dark and mysterious or light, floral and elegant. This wine is elegant. Almost like Pinot Noir in aromatics. I used Rhone 4600 and SYR cultured yeast for the fermentation. This wine is almost like raspberry syrup with a little bit of white pepper spice. I blended 10% Syrah into this wine to darken the wines soul, it was a bit too light hearted and flashy. It needed the tannin and black pepper spice of the Syrah to give it some basement! I love the Rhone grapes I feel as though it is where my heart truly lies.
Think fresh cracked black pepper, both in the nose and mouth.
Leather and tobacco wisp through the experience and coat your mouth
with silky smooth tannins. This is a full wine from beginning to
extended end! Sweet candy from the French oak, and the spice and
black fruits are from the grapes themselves. This wine is a complete
package it has everything I am looking for in a wine and more!