Merus Wines, California Winery & Tasting Room

Merus began in 1998 as a two-car-garage project in Napa, co-founded by Erika Gottl and Mark Herold, and quickly built a cult reputation before William Foley's Foley Family Wines acquired the label in 2007. Foley relocated production to the restored Rossini Ghost Winery, an 1891 stone ranch at the base of Howell Mountain near St. Helena, complete with roughly 7,000 square feet of temperature-controlled caves.

Winemaking emphasizes minimal intervention: fruit is hand-selected down to individual rows from roughly 20 to 25 small Napa Valley growers (including sites in St. Helena, Stags Leap, and Coombsville), fermented whole-berry in puncheons and steel tanks, and fermented and aged separately by vineyard block. Typically less than 55% of the annual barrel production is used in the final Cabernet Sauvignon blend, which runs about 500 cases a year.

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