About Chanticleer Wine
Chanticleer Wine is named for the medieval rooster — Chanticleer, the proud cock of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and the broader medieval literary tradition, whose crowing at dawn heralds the coming day. The winemaker's declaration: this wine announces something, calls attention to itself, heralds a quality worth noticing.
The St. Helena boutique produces Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon from benchland sources in the appellation's most historically important growing corridor, with a winemaking philosophy that takes the rooster's confident announcement seriously — these wines make a claim and intend to back it up.
The medieval literary name is unusual in Napa Valley's mostly French and Italian naming landscape, suggesting a winemaker with literary sensibility and the confidence to stand apart from convention.