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MANAGEMENT AND KEY SALES & MARKETING PERSONNEL Alex Sokol
Blosser, Co-President
Alison Sokol Blosser, Co-President Susan Sokol Blosser,
Founder
Russ Rosner, Winemaker Lee Medina, Brand Ambassador Sara Manucy,
Brand Ambassador
Jenny Mosbacher, Brand Ambassador Rod Wyatt, Director of
Finance
Michael Brown, Director of Consumer Sales and Marketing Jeff Knapp,
Hospitality Manager
OWNERSHIP Sokol Blosser family: 100%
WINERY & VINEYARD LOCATION 87 acres planted in the Dundee Hills
AVA, 30 miles SW of Portland, in Yamhill County,
in the northern Willamette Valley, Oregon. Tasting Room open to the
public 10:00 am to 4:00 pm daily.
Picnic area and walk-thru showcase vineyard.
CURRENT RELEASES 2010 Dundee Hills Pinot Noir 2010 Estate Cuvée
Pinot Noir
2011 Willamette Valley Pinot Gris 2012 Estate Rosé of Pinot
Noir
Evolution White 16th Edition, NV Evolution Red 2nd Edition,
NV
ENVIRONMENTAL CERTIFICATIONS Salmon-Safe, 1996
US Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental
Design (LEED), 2002 USDA Organic by Oregon Department of
Agriculture, 2005
Oregon Certified Sustainable Wine, 2009
Sokol Blosser Management
Alex Sokol Blosser, Co-President
Alex Sokol Blosser, son of Sokol Blosser’s founders, Susan Sokol
Blosser and Bill Blosser, grew up working in the family vineyards
and winery. After starting college in Texas, he realized his heart
lay back on the family farm, so he returned to Oregon to finish his
college degree and acquire more wine industry experience. In 1998,
after working in neighboring vineyards and with a Portland wine
wholesaler, Alex started full time at Sokol Blosser, simultaneously
working for the president, his mom, Susan, while earning his MBA
degree. When he achieved his MBA, Alex became Vice President of
Sales at Sokol Blosser. In addition to his sales duties, Alex takes
time every year to work harvest, and also oversees vineyard and
winemaking activities. Now a Co-President with his sister Alison,
Alex actively participates in the Oregon wine industry, including
spearheading the project to develop six new American Viticultural
Areas in the northern Willamette Valley in 2002. Alex currently
serves on the board of the Willamette Valley Wineries Association.
Alex has twin boys, Nikolas and Avery.
Alison Sokol Blosser, Co-President
Alison Sokol Blosser, daughter of Susan Sokol Blosser and Bill
Blosser, remembers being small enough to climb into the press to
help her father clean it during harvest. She decided that while the
actual winemaking wasn’t her thing, the family vineyard and winery
were in her blood. After getting her MBA at the University of
Washington and spending three years working in public relations and
marketing communications with startups and consumer branding
giants, such as Nike and Nordstrom, she came home to Sokol Blosser
in 2004 as Director of Marketing. Now a Co-President, Alison works
with Alex to plan the strategic future of the business and also
oversees marketing, sales, and administrative functions, including
accounting, finance and human resources. Alison is involved in the
Oregon wine industry as a board member of Oregon Pinot Camp as well
as a member of Women for Winesense. She represents the state of
Oregon as a board member for WineAmerica, the national wine
industry association which “encourage(s) the dynamic growth and
development of American wineries and winegrowing through the
advancement and advocacy of sound public policy” and she is also a
founding board member of the Dundee Hills Winegrowers
Association.
Alison has a son, Dario, and a standard poodle, Twix. She recently
married Javier Zamora, Assistant General Counsel for NIKE, which is
based in Beaverton, Oregon.
Nik Blosser, Chairman
In addition to his Chairman duties at Sokol Blosser, Nik Blosser is
Co-founder and President of Celilo Group Media, Inc. a Portland,
Oregon-based media company with the mission of expanding markets
for sustainable products. Celilo’s primary media property are the
Chinook Book consumer guides, which include print and mobile green
coupon guides in Portland, Seattle, Denver, California’s Bay Area
and Minneapolis.
Nik has been a leading voice in the sustainable business arena for
the past decade in the Pacific Northwest, shaping both political
and business perspectives around the economic opportunities
surrounding sustainability. He is an expert on green marketing,
integrating sustainable business sectors, and using policy to
address environmental and sustainability issues. Celilo Group
Media’s publications have been recognized with several awards
including the 2007 Cecil D. Andrus Leadership Award for
Sustainability and Conservation, the first ever Aveda Environmental
Award for the magazine industry, a Best Award from the City of
Portland, A Founder of the Northwest Award and several Utne
Independent Press Award nominations.
In addition to his responsibilities leading Celilo Group Media, Nik
is also co-founder of the Oregon Business Association and serves on
the Board of Directors. He was appointed by two Oregon governors to
serve on the Oregon State Parks and Recreation Commission, where he
most recently served as Vice Chair. Nik received his Bachelor of
Arts and Sciences degree in aeronautical engineering and English
from Stanford University. Nik and his wife, Deborah Kafoury, live
in Portland with their three children: Alexander, Jacob and
Anna.
Susan Sokol Blosser, Founder Susan Sokol Blosser, wine industry
pioneer, community activist, environmental advocate, and author, is
a contemporary Oregon icon. Known for her leadership of Sokol
Blosser Winery, she was a forerunner in instituting environmentally
friendly business practices and practicing the triple bottom line
concept of people, planet, profit. With its certified organic
vineyard, the first LEED (U.S. Green Building Council’s
certification) certified winery building in the U.S., and business
practices based on the Natural Step model of sustainability, Sokol
Blosser Winery made social responsibility and its environmental
ethic priorities, while pursuing its vision of making fabulous
wines. For its leadership, Sokol Blosser Winery has received
multiple honors, including Sunset Magazine’s 2007 Green Winery of
the Year, the State of Oregon’s 2008 Governor’s Award for
Sustainability in the Small Business category, and Oregon Business
Magazine’s 2009 100 Best Companies to Work For and 100 Best Green
Companies to Work For awards. Susan holds a B.A. from Stanford
University and an Honorary Doctorate of Public Service from the
University of Portland, citing her entrepreneurship within the
context of environmental and social responsibility. Other awards
include Lifetime Achievement Awards from Women for WineSense and
the Oregon Wine Board. Her memoir, At Home in the Vineyard:
Cultivating a
Winery, an Industry, and a Life, was published by the University of
California Press in 2006, and her business philosophy, Gracious
& Ruthless: Surprising Strategies for Business Success,
appeared in 2008.
In 2008, she turned the presidency of Sokol Blosser Winery over to
her children, stepping back with the title of Founder. In 2011,
Susan started a public benefit nonprofit, the Yamhill Enrichment
Society (YES) to work on issues in the arenas of arts and
education, food and agriculture, history and community.
Russ Rosner, Winemaker Russ Rosner, a graduate of the University of
California at Santa Cruz, started in the wine industry in the Santa
Cruz area and gradually worked his way north. He became a devotee
of Pinot Noir during his years at Robert Mondavi Winery, 1983-1993,
where he was part of a team of enologists experimenting with Pinot
Noir vinification techniques. He was also in charge of the Mondavi
barrel program. In 1998 he moved to Oregon as Sokol Blosser’s
winemaker and began rebuilding its wine program. He introduced
better grape handling technology and equipment, and new winemaking
techniques. In 2002 he oversaw the design and construction of an
underground barrel cellar, the U.S. Green Building Council’s first
LEED certified winery building, providing for the first time the
ability to age Sokol Blosser’s Pinot Noir barrels under optimal
storage conditions. He took over the fledgling Evolution program,
building it into a wine that receives its own fan mail, and created
Sokol Blosser’s proprietary red wine, Meditrina. Russ is married to
winery co-founder, Susan Sokol Blosser. They live in a house on the
vineyard with their cats Leeleeloo, Squeak, and Emma, and a pond
full of koi.
Passionate About Pinot: Sokol Blosser’s Philosophy
Where does great Pinot Noir grow? Where intellect and intuition
meet. Where instinct and a meticulous nature commingle. Pinot Noir
isn’t a grape for every place, nor for every winery. It doesn’t
allow for cutting corners or letting the details slide. It reveals
all, about vineyard, vintage, winemaking technique – ultimately,
about one’s willingness to engage it in lifelong study.
For more than 35 years – since before there was an Oregon “wine
industry” – the Sokol Blosser family have been learning about Pinot
Noir, about how it best grows on their small parcel in the Dundee
Hills, and what it takes to capture the brilliance of the fruit and
the essence of the land. This resolute quest for excellence is also
expressed in their environmentally friendly winemaking techniques,
a core value for Sokol Blosser ever since the first vines were
planted in 1971.
At Sokol Blosser, growing grapes organically and embracing
sustainability in all winery operations is a way of life. It’s no
mere coincidence, however, that over the years such practices have
the happy consequence of enhancing the excellence of their Pinot
Noir. In addition to the official recognition given to Sokol
Blosser’s environmental practices, its wines have consistently won
recognition for their quality. Being good to the earth – farming,
buying and building through the lens of The Natural Step – is
really about paying attention to and respecting the details. There
is no other way to make great Pinot.
“Farming is as much an art as science. Knowing my hillsides and
understanding the needs of my vines to produce great fruit are
behind every decision I make. We farm organically
and it makes us better, more careful farmers. During the growing
season, I am in the vineyard as much as possible. It is never the
same. It changes constantly and I need to be
there to see how it is doing.” – Alex Sokol Blosser
“We use a winter cover crop to hold the soil in place during winter
rains and build up the soil. I carefully choose what species I want
to combine for a cover crop that will perform the best
for my land. We plant it in the fall, let it grow as long as we can
in the spring, then cut it, let it dry, then work it into the soil.
This is an important part of our organic fertilization
program.
I can’t leave a cover crop permanently in place because it would
compete with the vines for water, since we do not irrigate them.” –
Alex Sokol Blosser
″When the Pinot Noir clusters start to turn color, I monitor them
closely to see how evenly they are ripening. If they aren’t
ripening evenly, I send the crew in to cut off the green
clusters. I also look to see if the vine has produced new,
secondary clusters, and send the crew in to cut them off. As the
clusters mature we taste them every few days, aware that the
decision
when to pick is one of the most critical we make. The winemaker and
I make that decision together.” – Alex Sokol Blosser
Certified Green: A Leader in Environmentally Friendly
Practices
“We feel a sense of social responsibility in conducting our
business and our lives the way we do. This is the only way we could
imagine doing it. Not only are our methods healthier for the soil,
the vines, and those of us who work in the vineyard, they also lead
to better wines.”
– Susan Sokol Blosser, Founder
USDA Organic In September 2005, after a three-year transition
period, Sokol Blosser Winery received full USDA organic
certification. This certification recognizes that the winery’s
farming practices meet federal National Organic Program standards
and means Sokol Blosser’s estate wines beginning with the 2005
vintage can legally be labeled “made with organic grapes.” We are
certified through the Oregon Department of Agriculture.
www.oregon.gov/ODA/CID/organic.shtml
LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) In December
2002, Sokol Blosser became the country’s first winery to earn the
prestigious LEED 2.0 Silver Level certification from the U.S. Green
Building Council for its barrel cellar, designed and built
according to advanced sustainable building practices.
www.usgbc.org/leed
Salmon Safe
Sokol Blosser was the first winery certified under the Salmon Safe
program in 1996, instituted to recognize farming management
practices that protect and restore salmon habitat. In the vineyards
this means planting cover crops to prevent soil erosion, using
natural methods to control pests and carefully managing water use.
www.salmonsafe.org
Oregon Certified Sustainable Wine In 2009, Sokol Blosser became
certified by Oregon Certified Sustainable Wine (OCSW), which
focuses on the shared principles third party certifiers to
guarantee that the wine in that bottle was made using responsible
agriculture practices, responsible winemaking practices, and that
both of those processes were certified by an independent third
party. www.ocsw.org
Sokol Blosser Winery Timeline 1966 Bill Blosser and Susan Sokol
graduate from Stanford in June and get married in August. 1970 In
December, Bill and Susan have their first child, Nik, and purchase
their first piece of
land to start a vineyard. 1971 The Sokol Blossers clear the land
and plant winegrape cuttings in a nursery row. 1973 Bill and Susan
build a home in a corner of the vineyard, the first home of their
own. 1974 In January, their second son, Alex, is born. 1977
Construction is finished on Sokol Blosser Winery in time for its
first vintage. 1979 Sokol Blosser wines win international
recognition at the International Wine & Spirits
Competition in London with six wines, including several golds. In
December, the third child, Alison, is born.
1980 Vineyard acreage expands to 72 acres. Bill leaves his planning
job to be the winery’s full
time president and Susan starts managing the vineyards. 1983 Sokol
Blosser Vineyards honored by the U.S. Soil and Water Conservation
District because
of Susan’s work with experimental cover crops to control erosion on
hillside vineyards. 1991 Bill Blosser returns to planning and Susan
becomes president of Sokol Blosser. “The French Paradox” airs on
CBS’s Sixty Minutes. 1993 Mystery writer Robert B. Parker publishes
Paper Doll, which mentions Sokol Blosser:
“I was alone in a cell about 8 by 10 feet in the cellar of the
courthouse…I wondered if anyone was going to give me supper, and
decided that they weren’t. They wanted me to be isolated and hungry
and in the dark down here while my resolve atrophied…I thought
about football…Mel Torme…The Four Seasons in New York, and Sokol
Blosser Pinot Noir….”
1995 Oregon Business Magazine lists Sokol Blosser winery as one of
the top 100 best companies
to work for in Oregon. Sokol Blosser is the only winery and the
smallest company listed. 1996 Sokol Blosser is the first winery to
be certified “Salmon-Safe”, a program launched by the
Pacific Rivers Council to publicize products produced without using
pesticides and causing runoff that would harm salmon.
Continued…
1997 To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Sokol Blosser inaugurates a
new label design. The same
year, the winery joins Low Input Viticulture and Enology (LIVE), a
new international sustainable viticulture program run through
Oregon State University.
1998 Alex Sokol Blosser comes back to work at Sokol Blosser and
Russ Rosner joins as
winemaker. Small lot bottlings of individual blocks of Pinot Noir
introduced with the 1998 vintage.
1999 New grape handling equipment, including press, destemmer, and
sorting line upgrade
production. Last vintage of Chardonnay produced at Sokol Blosser
and Chardonnay vines are pulled out.
2000 Thirty new acres of Pinot Noir planted, using Dijon clones
777,667, 115, as well as the
Pommard clone. 2001 May 15th, 2001 issue of The Wine Spectator
features Sokol Blosser and its Pinot Noir
renaissance. 2002 Underground barrel cellar becomes the first
winery building in the country to receive the
prestigious U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED (Leadership in
Energy and Environmental Design) certification. Sokol Blosser
starts its official organic certification transition.
2004 Alison Sokol Blosser joins the family business. 2005 Dundee
Hills becomes an official American Viticultural Area and Sokol
Blosser releases the
first wine in Oregon to be labeled with the new appellation: Sokol
Blosser 2002 Dundee Hills Pinot Noir. In September, Sokol Blosser
receives full USDA organic certification for its 72-acre estate
vineyard.
2006 Sokol Blosser celebrates its 30th harvest and Susan’s first
person history, At Home in the
Vineyard: Cultivating a Winery, an Industry, and a Life, was
published by the University of California Press.
2007 A 25kW photovoltaic solar panel system, which furnishes 33% of
the business’s total production energy needs, went live. The family
also made its first land purchase in 30 years – 20 acres of
neighboring Dundee Hills land called Blackberry Block.
2008 After over a year of slowly taking over daily operations from
Susan, the transition from first
to second generation continues with Alex and Alison becoming
Co-Presidents on January 2, 2008.
2009 Sokol Blosser becomes certified by Oregon Certified
Sustainable Wine (OCSW). 2011 Sokol Blosser celebrates its 40th
year in business. 2012 Construction begins on new Tasting Room,
designed by Allied Works, on September 10th,
2012.
Evolution White
Evolution White is Sokol Blosser’s proprietary blend of nine
different white varietals. Sokol Blosser has created something that
appears simple — easy drinking, relaxing — but in reality is quite
complex. Producing a proprietary blend like Evolution is a
combination of art and science. Our Winemaker, Russ Rosner, says,
"In over twenty years of winemaking this is by far the hardest wine
I've had to make. It's like mixing nine different colors of paint
and trying to end up with a rainbow instead of a muddy brown.” It's
a lot of hard work but it also takes a little luck to get just the
right combination. In this case, the combination includes Pinot
Gris, Müller-
Thurgau, White Riesling, Semillon, Muscat Canelli, Gewürztraminer,
Pinot Blanc, Chardonnay and Sylvaner. The grapes come together and
create a flavor greater than the sum of its parts. Wine is made to
be consumed with food, and the kind of foods that we're eating
today — lighter foods with more complex flavors — need a wine that
parallels that complexity. People always joke around, asking
whether Sokol Blosser created this blend on purpose or if they just
blended leftovers and it happened to work. That is where Sokol
Blosser got the idea of “Luck verses Intention” that is used on the
label.
Evolution Red
For years, fans of our Evolution White have been clamoring for us
to blend its red companion. Actually, clamoring is putting it
nicely. Did they forget, we wondered, the lessons taught in 8th
grade science? Evolution takes time. So when the time was right and
a wine had evolved which would stand apart from the cluster of
existing red blends, we pounced. It was inevitable. This
Syrah-based blend is complex, velvety, juicy and nothing short of
exquisite. It’s a friend to grilled meats, barbecued
chicken, Italian red sauce dishes, pizza, cioppino and even a fine
ratatouille. In a nutshell, ERed is the worthy evolution of
Evolution and most certainly worth the 13 year wait. Another giant
step forward in wine. Pour. Sip. Evolve. Repeat. Like it says on
the label… It’s about time.
The New Tasting Room at Sokol Blosser Winery, Designed by Allied
Works Architecture, Takes Shape in Oregon’s Dundee Hills
Oregon’s First Winery Building with International Design Pedigree
Set to Elevate The Tasting Experience This Summer
Exterior Rendering, front view of The New Tasting Room by Allied
Works Architecture for Sokol Blosser Winery
DUNDEE, OREGON (March 25, 2013) Sokol Blosser, an Oregon wine
pioneer and a leading producer of Oregon’s world class pinot noir,
pinot gris and other fine wines, is preparing for a record number
of visitors to its Willamette Valley estate this summer when wine
and contemporary architecture take center stage. Following
groundbreaking only last fall, the New Tasting Room, designed by
Portland’s award-winning Allied Works Architecture, is taking shape
and now visible from Oregon State Highway 99. “Foundations are set,
primary walls are framed, the roof & weatherproofing are
completed and the project is on schedule to meet its summer 2013
debut,” says Brad Cloepfil, Founder and Principal Architect of
Allied Works Architecture.
Groundbreaking, September 2012: (l to r) Alex Sokol Blosser,
Alison Sokol Blosser, Brad Cloepfil, Susan Sokol Blosser
In keeping with its long-term business and agricultural values, the
Sokol Blosser Winery Tasting Room has been designed with
environmental sustainability as a priority. Following the legacy
begun with Susan Sokol Blosser, who founded the winery and built
the first LEED certified winery building in the U.S., her children
Alison and Alex Sokol Blosser, now co- Presidents, have aligned The
New Tasting Room with Living Building Challenge, the new gold
standard for building certification. This makes The New Tasting
Room the first winery in the U.S. to support the values of, and,
strive to fulfill, the most rigorous performance standard for the
built environment. The Living Building Challenge is a program
initially launched by the Cascadia Green Building Council (a
chapter of both the US Green Building Council and Canada Green
Building Council). The International Living Building Institute was
created by Cascadia in May 2009 to oversee the Living Building
Challenge and its auxiliary programs. In April 2011, the
International Living Building Institute was renamed the
International Living Future Institute, and became the umbrella
organization for both the Living Building Challenge and the
Cascadia Green Building Council.
1978 - Susan & Bill Sokol Blosser reviewing plans with son,
Alex, for Oregon's first tasting room 2012- Alison & Alex Sokol
Blosser reviewing plans inside The New Tasting Room, set to open in
July 2013
Certain to appeal to wine lovers as well as followers of design,
architecture and sustainable building, the tasting room promises a
dynamic visitor experience. The design of the new Tasting Room pays
homage to the source of its bounty, with details that invite guests
to seamlessly experience the vineyards and landscape. The
building’s low profile lends the appearance of being a single level
when in fact the structure is built both above and below ground,
emulating the character of the grapevines while allowing for wine
storage in a naturally cool cellar. The exterior is united with the
interior in part by the use of striated wood cladding, a motif
derived from the vineyard rows and the region’s vernacular
agricultural buildings. The wood will also surface all interior
walls, floors and ceilings.
Sokol Blosser Vineyard- Andrea Johnson Photography
Sokol Blosser is one of Oregon’s most popular winery destinations.
As a wine country pioneer, Sokol Blosser has been an integral part
of the community effort that has placed the state’s and Willamette
Valley’s wine industry squarely on the map. In the space of one
generation and in its fourth decade, the modern Oregon wine
industry is now a nearly $3 billion industry. A recent study by the
Oregon Wine Board revealed that the economic impact of its wine
industry has nearly doubled to $2.7 billion since 2005, despite the
country’s economic hardships during this time. Oregon has garnered
a worldwide reputation for top flight Pinot Noir, with its
Willamette Valley considered the number one destination for Pinot
Noir in America. Taking note of these oenophile credentials, the
book sequel to the pinot noir-popularizing film “Sideways” chose to
include and end its story in Willamette Valley.
America’s First LEED Certified Winery Building: The Sokol Blosser
barrel cellar
The results of this increasing popularity are tangible. “We outgrew
the capacity of our original tasting room and the conditions began
to compromise the personal hospitality and engagement between our
visitors and staff,” says Michael Brown, Sokol Blosser’s Director
of Consumer Sales and Marketing. “It wasn’t long before, we
realized it was time to plan a new visitor center and tasting room
and begin our search for an architect who understood our priorities
in sustainability, respect for the land, and our desire for the
building to create an inspired experience.” Beyond The New Tasting
Room with its planned personalized wine and food experiences, Sokol
Blosser’s hospitality experience includes touring its vineyards by
foot or custom built, environmentally sensitive ATV. All of these
will be available this year at Sokol Blosser and its 87 acres of
vineyards. When the building is complete, wine and
design/architecture enthusiasts visiting Sokol Blosser Winery can
expect an immersive experience that embodies and celebrates the
artistry of its wines, the transformative power of design and the
beauty of the Oregon landscape.
Terrace Rendering, The Main Room of The New Tasting Room
with views of Yamhill County in Willamette Valley by Allied Works
Architecture for Sokol Blosser Winery
Wine Tourism and Architecture Wine tourism, a relatively new sector
of travel, began in the U.S. in the mid-60’s. Travel to wine
country connects visitors with wine in all its facets – from the
beautiful countryside at its source to the vintners and winemakers
whose talents distinguish each vintage. Architecture has become an
important element in the development of wine tourism in the world’s
top wine growing regions. Taking a cue from the museum playbook,
emerging markets around the globe have invested in world-class
architecture to showcase their world-class wines. In locations as
diverse as Argentina, Austria and New Zealand , wineries have
welcomed such design notables as Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Santiago
Calatrava, Richard Rogers, Norman Foster and Mario Botta. The
pairing of wine with stimulating architecture serves not only to
enhance the sensory pleasures and depth of appreciation of wine
tasting but also attract a wider, architecture-savvy audience. In
the U.S., this phenomenon has its roots in Napa Valley when, in the
late 1980’s, Michael Graves’ postmodern design for Clos Pegase
Winery was described by media as a place of design pilgrimage and
America’s first monument to wine as art. Following in its steps was
the Scott Johnson design for
Opus One; Herzog & De Meuron’s for Dominus; and Quixote Winery
by Austrian architect, Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Sokol Blosser
Winery is pleased to join the ranks of this esteemed
community.
Exterior Rendering, The Front Porch of The New Tasting Room
by Allied Works Architecture for Sokol Blosser Winery
About Sokol Blosser Winery For more than 40 years, before there was
an Oregon wine industry, the Sokol Blosser family has been growing
grapes and creating exemplary wines. Located on a certified organic
120-acre property in Oregon’s Dundee Hills sub appellation, Sokol
Blosser has consistently captured the terroir of the region as
expressed through the brilliance of its estate fruit. This resolute
quest for excellence is also inherent in its
environmentally-sensitive winemaking techniques, a core value for
Sokol Blosser since the planting of its very first vines 1971. The
winery produces Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir, and small quantities of
Single Block Pinot Noirs under its Sokol Blosser brand name. It
also produces a white blend and red blend under the Evolution brand
name. “We feel a sense of social responsibility in conducting our
business and our lives the way we do. This is the only way we could
imagine doing it,” notes Susan Sokol Blosser, the winery’s founder.
“Not only are our methods healthier for the soil, the vines, and
those of us who work in the vineyard, they also lead to better
wines.” The winery is now under the care of sister and brother
co-presidents, Alison Sokol Blosser and Alex Sokol Blosser. Sokol
Blosser Winery is entering a new millennium of winemaking, tasting
and sustainability in hiring Allied Works Architecture to design
Sokol Blosser’s state of the art tasting room. The project is set
for completion in July, 2013. Please visit www.sokolblosser.com to
shop online, for tasting room hours and more information about this
award-winning vineyard. # # # Media Contact Burditch Marketing
Communications Paul Burditch, Brian Garrido
[email protected],
[email protected] 415-874-9696 Additional images and renderings
are available upon request.
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