Our Wines

Margerum Wine Company produces limited quantities of wines made from grapes grown by top growers. Please visit our online store for detailed information and tasting notes on these wines as well as a changing cast of other small production wines not listed here.

Download a PDF file of all of our wines: Fall/Winter 2011 Catalogue

NEW! We have just released our AMARO digestif. Only for sale to retail and restaurant accounts. Details here.

M5

Rhone Blend

M5 is a Chateauneuf-du-Pape style blend using five grape varieties from twelve of the highest quality vineyards in Santa Barbara County.

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Sybarite

Sauvignon Blanc

This is real Sauvignon Blanc, crisp and clean; there are hints of melon, green grass, some fruit cocktail and a clear minerality on the nose.

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ÜBER

Syrah

A co-fermentation of Syrah blended with selected barrels from the top Santa Barbara County Syrah vineyards. The result is a wine with tremendous structure, length and complexity.

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Klickitat

Pinot Gris

Klickitat is pleasantly fruity and refreshing to drink. Apple and pear mixed with the very best aspects of Pinot Gris with its distinctive, pungent aromatics; the wine has an exotic array of fruit, herb and spice flavors, attractive mineral undertones, and good acidity.

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Vin de Pays Rosé

Rosé

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The Grenache used in this wine is grown at 550 meters and sourced from geologically complex soils. The grapes are all handpicked and double sorted, yielding superlative fruit. The wine is gently pressed and fermented very cold. We make this wine in a unique way. We saignée (bleed) off a little of the juice from the Grenache and ferment the slightly pink must just like we do with the rest of our whites. We then blend back in the RED Grenache out of a neutral barrel into the rosé wine to give tannin, complexity and seriousness. The result is a bright, fresh, crisp, and refreshing wine that can be enjoyed year-round.

Riviera Rosé

Rosé

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Saignée of Grenache blended with 24% of the improved RED Grenache (the ratio of skins to juice results in a more deeply flavored wine) from barrel. We make this a dry serious Rose that has tannin, complexity, and matches well with food.

Santa Ynez Valley Chenin Blanc

Chenin Blanc

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This wine was made from the old vines fruit grown on the original Firestone family vineyard that was planted in the early ‘70’s. We picked these grapes just as ripeness was near.
Super tight clusters produced a high acid, lean and gripping wine. With proper élevage, some barrel age in neutral French Oak barrels (six months), and a little time, we coaxed this beauty into the bottle. We are very happy with the results. pH = 2.94, TA = 9.1, Alcohol = 11.57%

Santa Barbara County Riesling

Riesling

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We make this from top-quality Riesling fruit grown at Kick-On vineyard. Fermented to a point where the slight sweetness is balanced perfectly with the crisp acidity. All stainless steel fermented and steel aged. A perfect balance of slight sweetness balanced with apple and citrus fruit acidity. Fragrant and food-friendly; especially good paired with delicate (or raw) fish.

D Sauvignon Blanc

Sauvignon Blanc

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D is an exploration of what can be done with Sauvignon Blanc - a combination a new, neutral, and stainless steel fermented and aged wines mostly from Grassini pick #3 with a bit of Westerly “The Point” blended in for complexity. Visually - golden hued, with greens and yellows. Aromatically alive with lime, citrus, vanilla, white floral, and cream. In the mouth a blend of grass, mineral, richness and bracing citrus. I would like this wine to age a bit, it is meant for cellaring. Picked with great acidity and at greater ripeness.

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Margerum 2009 M5

$24.95

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Five Grapes ~ Eleven Vineyards ~ One Wine
M5 is always all about Grenache and, as it is every year, the trick is to balance the crimson, aromatic, lean, bright, tight, crangrape, (crangrape is a made up word) tobacco, smoky, leather, earthy, Grenache, Counoise, Mourvèdre, Cinsault based components with the bombastic, dark, black, licorice, plum, fruity, tannic, bold, intense ripe, full-bodied Syrah we make. Light ruby red in color with red licorice, lean and dry, it’s like a 2007 Rhone with good acidity and not as fruity as M5 often is. The wine is persistent and still very young. The M5 mission statement: M5 is a wine that is from a thought – a blend that is an amalgamation of memories, both distant and recent, of wines I’ve tasted and loved the past thirty-three years.
51% Syrah (53% Colson Canyon Vineyard clone 877, 37% Great Oak Ranch Vineyard and 10% Purisima Mountain Vineyard that was pulled from a new Françoise Frères barrel), 32% Grenache (58% Alamo Creek Vineyard and 42% Grundoon Vineyards), 11% Mourvèdre from Camp Four Vineyard, 3% Counoise from Camp Four Vineyard and 3% Cinsault from Camp Four Vineyard. This is an eighteen barrel selection blended and crafted by Doug Margerum.

White Wines

Distinctive dry, crisp, bright (but fruity) whites that are the perfect match with dining.

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Red Wines

Doug Margerum’s Rhône varietal blends are made with a Burgundian sensibility.

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Imported Wines

Margerum Wine Company imports are Doug’s discoveries from France, Italy and Slovenia.

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Other Doug Margerum Wines

Doug is the winemaker for Happy Canyon Vineyards, and Cent’Anni wines.

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Margerum Wine Club

Special, limited production wines are available only to wine club members. There is no charge to join, your credit card will be billed when the wine is shipped, and you can quit at any time. Members receive wines available only through the winery, rare and library wines, and more...

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