Dovecote Estate is dedicated to growing and crafting wines that allow the beauty and character of our land to speak through them. Representing the heart of the Alisos Canyon AVA since 1990, our uniquely own-rooted vines and sandy-limestone soils have produced small quantities of intensely concentrated cool-climate Rhône fruit, with the daily marine influence slowing and extending ripening for uncommon complexity and grace.
The same hands that planted our vineyard over 30 years ago still farm it today across three generations and have always called Dovecote their home.
I personally grow and hand-make all wines at the estate with a deep respect and love for their origin, which is also my full-time home. They are meant as an ode to our family’s gratitude in calling this special place ours. In their creation, it is my hope that our lives contribute to their meaning, and their meaning contribute to the lives of those we share them with.
I am honored to share my wines with you.
– Noah Rowles, Owner, Farmer, and Winemaker
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Treatise of the Vintage
Redtail Estate
THOMPSON VINEYARD, ALISOS CANYON AVA
Redtail’s purpose is to honor each vintage’s disposition with unaltered purity of fruit and a complex but balanced harmony of composition. It is a tribute to the lords of the sky at Dovecote, our numerous resident families of beautiful red-tailed hawks.
Redtail is a vintage-unique proprietary blend of the season’s most compelling red fruit, using Syrah, Grenache, Mourvèdre, and Petite Sirah. Redtail is aged for 18 months in neutral French oak barrels and bottle-rested for a minimum of a year before release.
Fruit on the Limb
Estate Grenache Blanc
THOMPSON VINEYARD, ALISOS CANYON AVA
In the mid-2000’s less than 100 acres of this crisp aromatic varietal existed in California, but French winemakers had long produced distinctly elegant food-driven Grenache Blancs. The cool climate at our Thompson Vineyard yields an elegant style with balanced minerality, acidity, and complexity.
Light and bright, never heavy-handed, sweet, or oaky. This wine is a delicious complement on the table or in a picnic basket.
Savor time and place at a private estate tasting under Constitution Oak
