Skewis Wines (Tasting Room Closed)

Skewis Wines is closed. Hank and Maggie Skewis retired and shut the label in June 2017 after twenty one harvests, telling the Healdsburg Tribune they wanted to travel while they were still young enough to enjoy it. They had started in 1994 with seventy cases. Hank came to it with real grounding: years at Lambert Bridge in Dry Creek Valley, a 1993 harvest in Burgundy, and a decade at Mill Creek Vineyards before the label was his own. The 2014 vintage, announced in February 2016 as the last, bookended a career that began with the excellent 1994.

The wine was Pinot Noir and almost nothing else, under a thousand cases a year, from vineyards in Anderson Valley in Mendocino County and the Russian River Valley. Hank made it in a deliberately Burgundian register, once explaining that when he started he always felt he was swimming upstream, emulating Burgundian, earthy, herbaceous wines true to the variety. He restricted yields hard, through winter pruning, spring shoot thinning and summer cluster thinning, aiming at two to two and a half tons an acre, and worked out of shared crush facilities to keep overheads low. The small Healdsburg tasting room at 57 Front Street in the historic Roma Station complex opened Friday through Sunday, 11am to 5pm, with appointments at other times, and was once named among the fifteen best tasting rooms in Sonoma County.

There is no Skewis tasting room to visit. The Front Street address in Healdsburg is part of the Old Roma Station complex, which still houses other wineries and tasting rooms a short distance from the Healdsburg plaza, so the building itself is worth the stop even though this label is gone. Older Skewis bottles occasionally surface through secondary channels rather than from the winery. Confirm current details directly with any Healdsburg winery before you go.

This winery is listed here for reference. It is closed, so there is no tasting room to visit.

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