About Amuse Bouche Winery
Amuse Bouche was created in 2002 by winemaker Heidi Barrett and partner John Schwartz as a Pomerol-inspired venture built around Merlot. The flagship, the 2023 blends 92 percent Merlot with 8 percent Cabernet Franc, is drawn from the eastern Rutherford Hills, and Barrett, a UC Davis fermentation science graduate raised in a Napa Valley winemaking family, has guided every vintage since the beginning.
Art is inseparable from the wine here. Each vintage carries an original label painting, the 2023 features Jennifer Garant's 'Days of Wine and Roses', issued as 700 hand-signed, numbered lithographs printed in France on Rives paper. The portfolio has grown to include the Vin Perdu red blend, the Prêt à Boire rosé, and Richard G. Peterson bottlings, all sold by allocation and direct order.
Every vintage of Heidi Barrett's Pomerol-styled flagship comes with a hand-signed, numbered lithograph printed in France on Rives paper.
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Barrett at the helmHeidi Barrett has made every vintage since she and John Schwartz created the label in 2002.
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Pomerol, via RutherfordThe flagship is a Merlot-dominant blend from the eastern Rutherford Hills, styled after Bordeaux's right bank.
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Wine as editionEach vintage's original label painting is issued as 700 hand-signed lithographs, printed in France on 25-by-29-inch Rives paper.
"Heidi Barrett's Pomerol homage, sold by allocation with collectible art in every case."
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MERLOT BLEND
Amuse Bouche
2023 · Rutherford Hills, Napa Valley
The Pomerol-style flagship, 92% Merlot and 8% Cabernet Franc from the eastern Rutherford Hills, reserved through the allocation order form.
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RED BLEND
Vin Perdu
2023 · Napa Valley
Roughly 600 cases of a Cabernet Sauvignon-led blend with Syrah, Merlot, and Petit Verdot, wearing a flip lenticular label.
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Prêt à Boire
2024 · Napa Valley
A southern French-style dry rosé of 70% Grenache and 30% Syrah, made to drink on release.
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Current releases as listed at amusebouchewine.com, July 2026; the flagship is allocated, with all orders placed direct by form, email, or phone.
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There is no public tasting room; the flagship is reserved through the winery's allocation order form, with wine shipping in fall and the lithograph following separately.
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1.5L magnums are released on a first-come basis, and ten hand-etched 5L jeroboams are produced each year.
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