SOLÈNE

Alexander Valley · Est. 1974

Solène
Bottles resting on their sides in the dim cellar racks

The collection

Nine wines. One hillside.

Current releases

Everything here is grown on the estate, picked block by block, and bottled only when it stops arguing with itself.

The current collection


Select any bottle for tasting notes, technical detail and pairing suggestions.

Red wine being poured into a glass in the low light of the cellar

Library & allocation

The wines we keep back.

A few hundred cases never reach the tasting room. The Solstice Reserve is offered to club members first each spring, and library vintages back to 2009 are opened only in the cellar, by the person who made them.

Practical matters

How to buy, keep and open them.

Shipping

We ship to 41 states, plus the UK and EU through our export partner. Orders leave the estate on Tuesdays; club members ship free on every allocation.

Cellaring

Whites drink best inside four years. The Hillside Cabernet wants five and rewards fifteen. The Solstice Reserve is only getting started at ten.

Serving

Reds at 16°C, not room temperature — twenty minutes in the fridge before opening. Decant the Petite Sirah and anything older than a decade.

Trade & restaurants

We work with a short list of restaurants and independent merchants. Write to us for allocations, samples and current availability.