As some of you may know, the Ardiri Winery tasting room was added to the production facility in 2010 after several years of having been a commercial production facility only without public access. Originally, as a production facility only housing wine making equipment as well as hardware for both production and storage, formal facilities for
The vineyard spacing at Ardiri Winery & Vineyards is somewhat unique. Described by some as "Burgundian," the meter by meter spacing (39 inches between each vine in a row, with the rows each being 39 inches wide) provides for more vines per acre (approximately 2000) and more tonnage per acre. This distance and planting method
The story of Ardiri, the winery's name, begins in 2006, shortly before the winery was purchased from the Andrus Family Trust. Our small vineyard in the Carneros AVA region of the Napa Valley had that year provided several tons of Pinot Noir grapes needing a winery in which to be processed into wine. The wine
