Orange County Wine-Welcoming Vic Bourassa From Bourassa Cellars Of Napa Valley!

Come join tonight as we taste a little bit of Napa with Bourassa Cellars!

The turning point for Vic Bourassa, owner and proprietor of Bourassa Vineyards in the Napa Valley, really occurred over a lunch he had in 1999 with the godfather of California wine, Robert Mondavi.  By that time Bourassa, who had moved to the Valley permanently three years before and had entered a second professional career in real estate development, was already a committed home winemaker and the chance talk wine and the wine business with one of the most influential winery figures in the world was to be savored and appreciated.

At some point during that memorable lunch Bourassa uncorked a bottle of his own homemade Napa Valley Pinot Noir and after a few evidently pleasurable sips Mondavi began to encourage the novice winemaker to enter the winemaking field as a professional, not just as an amateur, and it was at that very moment that Bourassa Vineyards was born, though it was not official, from a business perspective until two years later, in 2001.

Today, with a total production of a respectable 5,000 cases, Bourassa Vineyards is able to devote their attention to five carefully chosen varietals: Zinfandel, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah and their one white wine, a wonderful Sauvignon Blanc. In addition to that there is a Port made from the Primitivo grape that is, as the proprietor says with obvious pride, “an absolute favorite of everyone that gets to try it.” And that wonderful blend, the Harmony3, is still just as popular and still winning just as many awards and medals as ever.

According to Bourassa, it is the fact that the wines – no matter what the varietal – are so painstakingly hand-crafted in small lots that is such an important factor, and the winery carefully creates rich, complex blends using fruit from premiere, self-maintained Napa Valley vineyards. “This insures that our award-winning wines display the distinct varietal characteristics that are winning over critics and wine drinkers alike.”   For more information, please feel free to visit their website at www.bourassavineyards.com.

So come join us tonight and meet Vic Bourassa of Bourassa Cellars who will be telling his stories while pouring his fabulous Napa Wines! 

Attend tonight's tasting for a chance to win a wine tasting kit valued at $70.  There will be several to give away!

Please email us at scwineco@aol.com if you want to take a peek at our tasting menu for tonight's event!