Wineries – Brutocao Cellars
 Passion for their craft turns winemakers into artists. And it's their artistic expression that transforms grape juice into gold, silver and bronze medals at wine competitions across the country. Winning a gold medal doesn't always mean a wine is a classic, but winning a number of medals and accolades in prestigious wine publications means something's up... in Mendocino County.
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Please visit www.brutocaocellars.com or brutocaoschoolhouseplaza.com for more information on Brutocao Cellars, or call 800.433.3689.
Fermenting in small lots intensifies fruit flavors. Leaving many of our red wines unfiltered and unfined ensures that they retain all their full, rich character. Practices, like punching down the cap by hand or using whole-berry fermentation for reds and whole-cluster pressing in white wines, also contribute to the flavor nuances that constitute Brutocao quality. These time-honored, less-invasive methods produce a more complex and memorable wine.
It isn't luck anymore, it is artistic passion.
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Winemaker Fred Nickel uses oak as a complement to Brutocao wines.
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Discover Brutocao Cellars
 Winemaking traditions often begin around the table. Brutocao's roots go back two generations to a Venice, Italy, dinner table.
When the Brutocao family came to the New World and married into the Bliss family of farmers, it was only natural that they would combine their passions and become grapegrowers and winemakers.
Today, the family still blends their Italian heritage with their rural agricultural lifestyle to make some of California's finest wines.
 Grandfather Irv Bliss purchased the Mendocino County property in the mid- 1940s. When the family began making wine in 1991, they chose the Lion of St. Mark, modeled after a lion at St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice, as their symbol of family tradition and quality.
That quality comes from the location of their 475 acres of vineyards in southern Mendocino County.
The Brutocao family tradition of serving wine at the table means wines that are produced with good food and good friends in mind.
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