About Switchback Ridge
The Peterson family's 1994 Calistoga hillside Cabernet Sauvignon and Petite Sirah estate — one of the most Petite-Sirah-seriously-committed and person
Switchback Ridge is one of the most Petite Sirah-seriously-committed and Peterson-family-personally-conducted boutique wine programs in the northern Napa Valley.
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Switchback Ridge isSwitchback Ridge is one of the most Petite Sirah-seriously-committed and Peterson-family-personally-conducted boutique wine programs in the northern Napa Valley.
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The Peterson familyThe Peterson family — who established the steep Calistoga hillside estate in 1994 with a conviction that the northern Napa Valley's volcanic terrain produced both Cabernet Sauvignon and Petite Sirah of individually distinctive concentrated character — farm the most naturally steep and physically demanding terrain of any boutique estate in the Calistoga wine corridor.
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The switchback-access hillsideThe switchback-access hillside estate terrain — so steep that the roads literally switchback up the hillside to reach the most elevated vineyard blocks — enforces the most extreme natural low yields and vine-root-stress conditions available on any Calistoga hillside property.
"The Peterson family's 1994 Calistoga hillside Cabernet Sauvignon and Petite Sirah estate — one of the most Petite-Sirah-"
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Featured Wines
Petite Sirah
Petite Sirah
Calistoga / Switchback Ridge Estate
Switchback's most personally committed and critically recognized expression — steep hillside Calistoga Petite Sirah consistently earning 92–95 points from Wine Advocate for the dark, massively concentrated, age-demanding character that the Peterson family's most naturally steep and physically difficult volcanic hillside farming conviction produces in the most seriously committed Petite Sirah program in the Calistoga appellation.
Estate
★★★★☆
Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet Sauvignon
Calistoga / Switchback Ridge Estate
Switchback's steep hillside volcanic Calistoga Cab — estate Cabernet from the most naturally terraced and switchback-accessed Peterson family hillside property earning 92–96 points for the concentrated, structurally intense character that the most extreme natural low-yield farming conditions available on any Calistoga hillside property consistently produce in this Bordeaux variety.
Estate
★★★★☆
Merlot
Merlot
Calistoga / Switchback Ridge Estate
Switchback's most food-compatible steep hillside Bordeaux expression — Calistoga hillside Merlot from the Peterson family's most naturally terraced switchback-access estate showing the plush, concentrated character that steep volcanic hillside terrain and extreme natural low-yield farming conditions produce in this Bordeaux variety at the most food-first tier of the most Petite-Sirah-seriously-committed Calistoga boutique estate.
Estate
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Book on Tock →Steep Hillside Petite Sirah Appointment
Appointment at one of Calistoga's most Petite Sirah-seriously-committed and steep hillside-personally Peterson-family-conducted estate programs — estate Petite Sirah and Cabernet at 92–96 points from the switchback-accessed volcanic hillside that the Peterson family has farmed with the most naturally low-yield conviction since 1994.
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