Bolt To Wines

ChardonnYAY! This pretty girl in her Catalina Mariposa Lily label got 93 points from Wine Enthusiast. I’ve found my Chardonnay, aged in neutral French oak barrels, manages to make everyone happy: from the stainless seekers to the butterheads to Chard skeptics, everyone leaves refreshed. Looks like Wine Enthusiast agrees!
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🌎Happy Earth Day from Bolt To’s newest suite: a 2022 Pinot Noir 🍂 and a 2023 Grüner Veltliner 🦋 both from Sta Rita Hills AVA, available now at boltto.com/shop.

Aromas of Dr. Pepper? Say less. Scores are in from Wine Enthusiast, and suffice to say, we’re equally jazzed with this 94 point Syrah. Buy now at boltto.com.

Excuse me, look at HER 👀
Finally labeled my lovely 2022 Sta Rita Hills AVA Chardonnay, featuring the Catalina Mariposa Lily. My whites are aged in neutral French Oak barrels. I find this, plus this gal’s racy, coastal acid, pleases both the butter chasers and the biggest Chardonnay skeptics. This beaut, plus another white, coming ssssoon. Stay tuned.

Wineslanging at Taste of Camarillo. Many compliments, as usual, for .rowley.design’s label designs.

Our latest release, fresh at you with a brand new review: 2021 Ballard Canyon AVA Roussanne. The label art, by .rowley.art (as always) features a Lesser Goldfinch among purple sage. Available in the shop at boltto.com


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This is a flat-out gorgeous wine, crisp and spicy but with plenty of that creamy Rhone goodness the variety MUST have. Fairly deep yellow in the glass, with golden hues along the rim. Rich oak fills the nose, adding wonderful texture to lush floral blossom: wilted lily and flush camellia with dark guava and banana filling the tropical score-card.

Steely and flint-driven on the tongue, applesauce and pear coursing in with time, a bright vitamin-C pang poking at all receptors. Over the middle, the sharp acidity continues, while some of that oak smooths and fluffs the brightness into a well-balanced shock of color and nuance. Green apple and even greener apricot drives a finish where white-wine tannin generates plenty of rasp and guarantee ageability. These wines never disappoint and here is yet another winner for now or the cellar.

2021 BOLT TO Ballard Canyon 14.0

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Thankful for friends as dear as family, and family as dear as friends. I’m so honored to share my wine with them, if we can’t share a dinner table, today. PS what a gorgeous fall day!

Photo witchery by —whom I had the pleasure of meeting at in Paso Robles last weekend. She really enjoyed this 2018 Syrah.

Label featuring a paintbrush plant by .rowley.art

Happy International Rabbit Day 🐰 let’s celebrate with wine 🍷

Eric Lagerstrom, Paula Findlay and family enjoying our 2019 Bolt To Chardonnay, from Sta Rita Hills AVA. It doesn’t need to be a special occasion to open a bottle, but these days, we definitely recommend celebrating in good company.