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Associate Vintners Program
Ever want to make your own wine, but do it in a painless way? We
may have your answer. Deep inside the Jarvis cave is a very private but
functional chamber, called the Associate Vintners’ Chamber, see photo
below. In this Chamber you can be your own winemaker and make your own
customized wine. You can make a small barrel of 12˝ cases of wine or a
larger barrel equating to 25 cases. 
Don’t be worried about how to use a barrel of wine, the wine lasts ten
years and gets better every year so you can have ten years of meal time
enjoyment, presents and happy friends. Your premium wine with your own
label will be perfect for gifts and for your own family enjoyment. Your
clients, employees and friends will appreciate receiving the gift of
such a special wine at holiday time.
By using only grapes from the
Jarvis Estate Vineyard you can be sure of world-class wine made to your
own taste. Your full cost ranges from $18,000 for a 12˝ case barrel and
up so it is world-class wine at an affordable price. You will have the
advantage of “wine futures” buying. You will have your wine in the
future but pay today’s pricing.
You start by selecting your
picking zone of grapes from among five different Jarvis vineyards. The
little vineyard cart shown below permits easy access to the vineyards
and makes your decision a pleasant experience, guided by a member of
the Jarvis team. |
| Vineyard Cart - Great for checking the Vineyards William Jarvis, Ted Henry - Winemaker,
Martin Becerra - Vineyard Manager and
Dimitri Tchelistcheff - Consultant
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Then you go to the Associate Vintners’ Chamber and spend serious time
with Jarvis winemaker Ted Henry doing barrel tasting and learning
winemaking. Once you have completed barrel tastings and chosen your own
barrel of wine, you become an “Associate Vintner”. You start making
your own winemaking decisions by personal visits and by email to the
winemaker.
You will have all the prerogatives of visiting the
Associate Vintners’ Chamber and husbanding your barrel of wine through
racking, blending, sulfuring and all the way to bottling and labeling.
The wine barrel with your own bronze name plaque is yours to keep, in memory of your winemaking days. Call or email John Schulz, 707-255-5280, john@jarviswines.com, to become your own Vintner!
Best Wishes,
William and Leticia
NEWS – For Immediate Release
September 2009 JARVIS Winery Announces a New Winemaking Program
called ASSOCIATE VINTNERS
A Prestigious and Personalized Program where Customers
Create Their Own Barrels of Wine for Futures Bottling
(Napa,
Calif.) – JARVIS, producers of cave fermented, luxury premium Napa
Valley wines, has launched the first Associate Vintners Program, a rare
chance for serious wine aficionados to be involved in the creation of
their very own personalized-for-your-palate JARVIS wine.
“The
JARVIS Associate Vintners Program is a unique, hands-on futures program
that will be attractive for individuals and members of the trade who
would like to be personally involved in the creation of a truly great
individualized, customized wine,” said William Jarvis, President of
JARVIS who announced the program this week.
The customer who
wishes to participate in this Associate Vintners Program will likely
start with a visit to the Jarvis Vineyards to become familiar with the
different zones and micro-climates. Then with this background
knowledge, will do a tasting with the JARVIS Winemaker, Ted Henry, to
select one or more barrels of wine in the Jarvis cave. These barrels
will be labeled with the customer's, now Associate Vintner's name, and
placed in the secure Associate Vintners Chamber deep in the Jarvis
cave.
From then until bottling, the Associate Vintner shepherds
his wine through a series of wine making procedures, including as
options, if desired, wine blending and different size bottles with
personalized labels. Full barrel pricing begins at $25,000.
William and Leticia Jarvis acquired their Napa Valley home in the mid
1980s. With the assistance of world-renown winemaker Dimitri
Tchelistcheff, who continues as the JARVIS consulting winemaker today,
they spent a decade carefully developing the estate vineyards and
followed by building the cave winery which opened in 1995. Unlike other
wineries, JARVIS is totally underground in a 45,000 square foot cave,
an eco-friendly facility that houses fully operational wine production
and cooperage as well as the winery offices and hospitality space.The
focus on quality commenced in the vineyards when they cherry-picked
just four zones totaling 37 acres from the total 1,320 acre JARVIS
Estate. Limited-production, luxury wines that total fewer than 9,000
cases annually are the result of this commitment to quality.
“Leticia and I invite people interested in JARVIS Associate Vintners
Program to do exclusive barrel tasting in the winery,” added Jarvis.
“Once they taste the wines and select their barrel, they will enjoy
working with our winemaking team and then watch the development of
their wine as the vintage matures.”
For more information about the JARVIS Associate Vintners Program call 800-255-5280 ext. 109 or go to www.jarviswines.com.
Journalists: To schedule an interview, or a visit to JARVIS, contact List Adams Walter at 707-255-0300 or lisa@adamswalter.com.
How to become an Associate Vintner Those
who wish to participate in the Associate Vintners Program will start
with a visit to the Jarvis Vineyards to become familiar with the
different zones, vineyard sites and micro-climates. With the
background knowledge learned in the vineyard, the Associate Vintner
will barrel taste wines from individual zones from several of the
Jarvis Estate vineyards. Finished wines from previous years will be
tasted as a reference to get an idea of how the barrels will taste
after bottling. All this will be done in the private Associate
Vintner’s Chamber with the Jarvis Winemaker, Ted Henry or the Director
of Sales and Marketing, John Schulz. The Associate Vintner will then
select one or more barrels of wine as their personal barrel.
When
a selection has been made, these barrels will be labeled with the
customer's, now Associate Vintner's name, and placed in the secure
Associate Vintners’ Chamber deep in the Jarvis cave. From then until
bottling, the Associate Vintner shepherds his wine through a series of
wine making procedures including, as options if desired, wine blending,
large format bottles and personalized labels.
Benefits of being an Associate Vintner
Access to the finest grapes the Napa Valley has to offer. Ability to choose your barrel from single vineyard wines before they are blended into Jarvis Estate wines. Opportunity to make 100% varietal wines from five different grape variety choices, all coming from the Jarvis Estate Vineyards. Access to the Jarvis Winemaker, Ted Henry, and the Jarvis winemaking team. Exclusive
barrel housing in the Associate Vintners’ Chamber with a bronze
nameplate engraved with your name. Up to six names can be engraved on
the nameplate. Regular
inspection and servicing of your barrel to include topping to limit
oxygen exposure, racking and analyzing laboratory test results which
will be mailed to each Associate Vintner explaining basic chemical
results. Associate
Vintners, along with their friends, will be encouraged to regularly
visit the winery during the aging process to inspect and taste their
barrel.
Option
to blend other varietals to experience the art of wine blending.
Associate Vintners can choose to make a proprietary red blend rather
than a varietal wine.
Personalized
labels can be made using a template provided by Jarvis or a design done
entirely by the Associate Vintner can be accommodated.
Costs
Each
varietal has a different cost based on that varietal’s current winery
retail price. Once an Associate Vintner buys their barrel, this price
is protected against price increases that may occur during the aging of
the wine. Like futures, price increases can sometimes be due to
exceptional vintage quality and or availability. A full barrel is
equivalent to 25 twelve bottle cases. All wines are available in half
barrels with Petit Verdot and Tempranillo exclusive to this format.
Cabernet Sauvignon – Full barrel - $28,500.00 / Half barrel - $16,250.00
Merlot – Full barrel - $27,000.00 / Half barrel - $15,500.00
Cabernet Franc – Full barrel - $24,000.00 / Half barrel - $14,000
Petit Verdot (very limited) – Half barrel only - $18,500.00
Tempranillo (very limited) - Half barrel only - $12,500.00
Additional Options
Blending
– All varietal wines from Jarvis showcase the varietal to its optimal
potential. With any of our varietals you can have a great wine with no
blending required. However, for those who want to experience the art of
blending, we offer a blending option for an additional $3,000. There is
no limit to the number of varietals that can be blended; but, the blend
cannot be less than 75% of one varietal to be classified as a varietal
wine. Jarvis’ winemaker Ted Henry will walk you through the entire
winemaking and blending process. The deadline for blending is August
1st of the bottling year.
Bottle Sizes – Barrel purchases are
based on furnishing standard size bottles (750ml). Changing a portion
of the bottles to other sizes is possible but does require special
re-calibration of the bottling line as well as special labels. There is
a one-time charge of $1,500 for each additional bottle size. Any number
of bottles can be changed to your desired bottle sizes. Magnums (1.5
liter), double magnums (3.0 liter) and imperial (6.0 liter) bottles are
available. The deadline for ordering additional bottle sizes is June
1st of the bottling year.
Delivery - After your wine is bottled it can be stored for you for up to six months at no charge in the Jarvis Pantheon.
For
more information about this program, or if you would like to
participate, please call our Director of Sales and Marketing, John
Schulz at 800-255-5280 x109.
We hope to see you in Napa Valley very soon.
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