Caddis Wines — Dry Creek Valley Winery & Tasting Room

Caddis Wines is named for the caddisfly — an aquatic insect whose larvae are among fly-fishing culture's most celebrated creatures. The caddis larva builds a protective case from the specific materials available in its stream: sand, gravel, plant material, even small pebbles, constructing something unique from the specific resources of its specific habitat before emerging as the adult fly.

Applied to wine, the caddis philosophy declares wine as the larval case: built from the specific materials of the specific vineyard, each wine unique to its place and vintage as each caddis case is unique to its stream section. The Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel and Petite Sirah program sources from estate and purchased Sonoma County vineyard blocks with this case-building philosophy.