News & Events

SF Chronicle recognizes Fred Peterson and his wines!

It was a dark and stormy night... well afternoon actually, and not really so stormy, just a wonderfully dramatic sky...when SF Chronicle photographer Craig Lee snapped this picture of Fred. And you could have knocked Fred over with a feather when he opened the Chronicle on January 18th to see his color photo gracing the front page of the Wine section atop the story titled “Zins sweet spot: Sonoma’s Dry Creek Valley may be the key to Zinfandel’s future” which included quotes from Fred on Zins in the Dry Creek Valley.

SF Chronicle's Wine of the Week: Peterson’s 2004 Zinfandel, Tradizionale!

"Fred Peterson makes Zinfandels in a fashion that is increasingly rare nowadays ..., they're often called claret-style. This is a field blend from a dry-farmed Prohibition-era vineyard, filled with tobacco and leather aromas, plus elegant black fruit and dried cranberries.” If you haven’t tried this beauty yet, now’s the time. Click here to order yours today ($25/bottle) or call us at 707-431-7568.

And in addition to all of that, the San Francisco Chronicle gave the Tradizionale a three-star "Excellent" rating in a recent Zinfandel tasting.

Peterson Winery’s 2003 Sangiovese, Il Granaio,
voted Top 100 Wines of 2007, San Francisco Chronicle!

Barrel Tasting Weekend
March 1 & 2, 2008
11am-4pm
Stop by Peterson Winery to chat with Fred and Jamie and sample our Zero Manipulation, No Soul-less wines. Over 100 wineries will participate, this is your chance to sample wines from the barrel, purchase wine futures, talk to winemakers and explore the beautiful Alexander, Dry Creek and Russian River Valleys.

To taste, you will need to purchase our tasting glass and event wristband for $20.00 at the first winery you visit.

For the first time, we will give you the option to buy a ticket in advance, saving yourself some time at check-in. Tickets will go on sale online beginning January 20, 2008. Advance tickets will only be sold online. Wineries will not have advance tickets, nor will we sell them by phone, only online, or you can wait and purchase at the winery door, the weekend of the event. For online ticket sales and more information, please visit www.wineroad.com

Friends of Fred Wine Club members, don’t forget, even if you don’t have tickets for Barrel Tasting, you can visit our Club Lounge during the event as a special membership perk!

Wine Blending Seminar with Winemaker Jamie Peterson.

April 5th, 10:30 am

Join Jamie in the cellar to learn blending techniques and try your hand at building your own blend. You will be blending your own variation of our Zero Manipulation Red Table Wine with samples of Carignane, Syrah, Petite Sirah and Zin. We’ll even cork and label your own signature blend for you to take home with you. Tickets are $45/person ($35 for Wine Club Members) and include a picnic lunch and your own bottle of your “private label” wine. Space is limited to 15 people. For tickets please call 707-431-7568 or email friends@petersonwinery.com

Passport to Dry Creek Valley

April 26 & 27 11 am - 4 pm.

Passport to Dry Creek Valley is an annual event showcasing the wineries, vineyards and exceptional beauty of Dry Creek Valley. There are over 63 wineries and 150 growers in the Dry Creek Valley, producing a variety of wines to please any palate. Wineries up and down Dry Creek Valley celebrate the magic of their valley with wine, food, entertainment and the hospitality for which Dry Creek Valley is famous. More info at www.wdcv.com

Peterson Winery will once again serve up our famous carnitas with all the fixins that everyone loves! Also, Friends of Fred Wine Club members, don’t forget, even if you don’t have tickets to Passport, you can visit our Club Lounge during the event as a special membership perk!

Tickets are sold out for the event, but contact us at 707-431-7568 or email friends@petersonwinery.com to see if we may have a few tickets available. Price $110 for the weekend.

Wine Club Member Appreciation Luncheon

Saturday June 7th

Friends of Fred Wine Club members, mark you calendars now for this fun afternoon luncheon and bocce ball tournament! Check back later for more details regarding price and time of event.

Harvest 2007 Recap

"Harvest 2007 has ended. Though it was one of the earliest starts to harvest we've had, the cool weather throughout the second half helped slow down the hectic pace and allowed us to focus on each lot of grapes as it came in. Our new processing equipment saved time and energy in addition to treating the grapes more gently. It truly will be another great vintage.

We're always asked what the best wine is from each harvest, and usually we answer that it is too early to tell. If we had to choose, this year we would say the Gravity Flow Block Syrah and our Old Vine Zin are definitely going to be two stars of the vintage. Now the wines are going through the secondary, malo-lactic fermentation in barrels, and will finish by the end of the year." -Jamie Peterson, Winemaker

The Bernier Zin grapes, picked August 29, look beautiful!

Our new Tasting Room is now open and ready for you to visit!

We are open daily for wine tasting and sales from 11am-4:30pm. We invite you to stop by and taste our zero-manipulation Peterson wines. You'll see what we mean when we say "no soul-less wines"

If you have never been to Peterson Winery, here is how you can easily find us:
Located at 4791 Dry Creek Road, Building #7, outside of Healdsburg, we are 4.7 miles west of the intersection of Highway 101 and Dry Creek Road. Click here for a printable map.

Many of our wines are being poured at LOCALS Tasting Room in downtown Geyserville. LOCALS is open daily from 11am-6pm and Tuesday by appointment. Please check them out at www.tastelocalwines.com.