La Chertosa is named for the magnificent 14th century Renaissance monastery in the Tuscan valley of Farneta, Italy where the Sebastiani ancestral roots began. Here, Sam's grandfather Samuele Sebastiani learned from the monks to make wine in the "Old World" style. Samuele came to Sonoma in 1893, and found that Sonoma closely resembled faraway Farneta in three ways; it boasted a mild Mediterranean climate, had the same Mediterranean red soils and was blessed with gently sloping hillsides. He founded Sebastiani Winery in 1904, one of the first wineries in California and employed the time-honored techniques taught him by the Carthusian monks in Farneta, to create in Sonoma, the winemaking style Sam continues in crafting the harmonic flavors in La Chertosa wines.
The nose opens to a complicated offering of dark cherries, ripe Zinfandel grape and elegant wood tones from barrel aging set this wine apart as one of California’s unique Zinfandels.
The nose opens to a complicated offering of dark cherries, ripe Zinfandel grape and elegant wood tones from barrel aging set this wine apart as one of California’s unique Zinfandels.
