Winery

Cactus Star's winery is dedicated to producing small lots of premium wine from the on premise vineyard and from local Ramona Valley grown grapes. All our wines undergo cold soaking and primary fermentation in small macro bins where the caps are punched down at least twice daily. Then the must is pressed and put into 225 liter oak barrels where the wine completes it's fermentation and undergoes malo-lactic conversion.

2007 Vintage In The Winery

Tempranillo

100% Estate grapes

Harvest Notes
Brix: 23.5
Acid: 5.2 g/l
pH: 3.66 - 3.7

Aging in new American oak and 1 year old French oak

Cabernet Sauvignon

100% Estate grapes

Harvest Notes
Brix: 26.4
Acid: 5.6 g/l
pH: 3.5 - 3.55

Aging in new American oak and 3 year old French oak

Petit Verdot

100% Estate grapes

Harvest Notes
Brix: 27.0
Acid: 6.0 g/l
pH: 3.55 - 3.6

No oak aging. To be added to Cab S.

Malbec

100% Estate grapes

Harvest Notes
Brix: 25.3
Acid: 6.4 g/l
pH: 3.45 - 3.5

No oak aging. To be added to Cab S.

Sparkling Wine

We have a very limited sparkling wine production. All of our sparkling wine is made using the traditional "methode Champonise" method. All of our sparkling wine are made in 750 ml bottles

We use two cuvees for our sparkling wines:
Viognier
White Tempranillo blended with Viognier