About Lava Cap Winery
Lava Cap is a family-run estate high in the Sierra Foothills near Placerville, founded in 1981 by David and Jeanne Jones. David, a research geologist, was drawn by the property's distinctive volcanic soils, the hard lava cap that gives the winery its name, and its elevation of around 2,600 feet. Those mountain conditions yield concentrated, well-structured estate wines, from Cabernet Sauvignon and Zinfandel to Petite Sirah, Barbera, and Chardonnay.
The tasting room, run by the next generation of the Jones family, has a relaxed mountain feel, with a deck overlooking the pine-forested foothills. Set in El Dorado's Apple Hill country, it is a scenic, welcoming, and unpretentious stop for anyone exploring the Sierra Foothills wine scene.
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Lava Cap WineryLava Cap Winery is the most personally volcanic-basalt-lava-cap-geologically-named and El Dorado mountain-specifically-high-elevation-committed Sierra Foothills wine estate.
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David and JeanneDavid and Jeanne Jones, who named their Placerville El Dorado County estate for the specific volcanic basalt 'lava cap' geological formation that defines the most distinctive and most wine-growing-quality-specific soil type available on the Sierra Foothills western slope, produce estate El Dorado Zinfandel, Petite Sirah, Barbera, Sangiovese, and Cabernet Sauvignon from volcanic basalt lava cap deposits at 2,600 feet of elevation.
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Zinfandel
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Barbera
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Barbera from Lava Cap Winery (El Dorado, Lava Cap Estate).
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Visit Website →Lava Cap Volcanic Basalt Walk-In
Taste the wines at Lava Cap Winery in the El Dorado County. Daily 11am to 5pm, walk-ins welcome.
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