About Spence Vineyards
The Spence family's Howell Mountain estate — producing estate Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon and Zinfandel from volcanic basalt terrain above the
Spence Vineyards is one of Howell Mountain's most personally family-conducted and warmly hospitable boutique estate programs.
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Spence Vineyards isSpence Vineyards is one of Howell Mountain's most personally family-conducted and warmly hospitable boutique estate programs.
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The Spence familyThe Spence family — who established the Summit Lake Drive Howell Mountain estate in 1998 and have farmed the volcanic basalt terrain above the fog line with personal family commitment ever since — produce estate Cabernet Sauvignon and Zinfandel with the intimate appointment format and genuinely personal hospitality that distinguishes the most authentically small-scale and family-personally-farmed Howell Mountain estates from the more commercially visible programs on the mountain.
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The Summit LakeThe Summit Lake Drive Howell Mountain location provides volcanic basalt growing conditions above the fog line — the specific combination of elevation, volcanic soil composition, and above-fog-line temperature inversion that the Howell Mountain AVA's most serious producers identify as the most consequential growing variable.
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Featured Wines
Cabernet Sauvignon
Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon
Howell Mountain / Spence Estate
Spence's most personally family-farming-conviction Howell Mountain flagship — estate volcanic basalt above-fog-line Cabernet with Wine Advocate recognition for the dark, concentrated, structurally intense character that the most warmly family-personally conducted and least commercially scaled boutique Howell Mountain estate produces from Summit Lake Drive volcanic terrain.
Estate
★★★★☆
Zinfandel
Howell Mountain Zinfandel
Howell Mountain / Spence Estate
Spence's most California-heritage and volcanic-mountain-personally-curious expression — Howell Mountain estate Zinfandel from the most warmly family-conducted Summit Lake Drive boutique estate showing the concentrated, food-compatible character that volcanic basalt above the fog line produces in California's most heritage-red variety when the Spence family's personal farming conviction guides every decision.
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Book on Tock →Family-Conducted Howell Mountain Appointment
Appointment at one of Howell Mountain's most warmly personal and family-conducted boutique estates — estate volcanic basalt Cabernet and Zinfandel from the Spence family's Summit Lake Drive personal farming conviction with Wine Advocate recognition. The most intimately family-personally-hospitable and least commercially scaled Howell Mountain boutique appointment.
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