FLORA SPRINGS WINERY & VINEYARDS TO UNVEIL NEW TASTING ROOM
ON AUGUST 8TH 2008

New Tasting Room Marks the Celebration of 30 Years as a Family-Owned Winery Making Quality, Hand-Crafted Wines from Flora Springs’ Sustainable Estate Vineyards Throughout the Napa Valley

(June 24, 2008; St. Helena, CA)—Flora Springs Winery & Vineyards is thrilled to announce that the new Flora Springs tasting room will open to the public on August 8th 2008 at 677 S. St. Helena Highway in St. Helena. Designed by Joel Miroglio of Miroglio Architecture + Design, the new tasting room was conceived in celebration of Flora Springs Winery & Vineyards’ 30th anniversary as a family-owned and operated winery.

The contemporary design of the building was inspired by the rolling hillsides that are the home to Flora Springs’ vineyards, natural springs, barrel-aging cave and winery. The exterior is finished with a rough concrete stucco, while inside, the curved tasting bar, furniture and fixtures are finished in oak with stainless steel accents. The floors are custom concrete, finished with alternating red wine and granite-colored streaks. “We wanted to create something that would draw the curiosity of visitors as well as tell the story of what Flora Springs represents,” says Flora Springs Co-Founder and President John Komes, who collaborated with architect Miroglio on the design of the tasting room. “We chose the undulating roofline to evoke the natural springs that feed our vineyards, and for which the winery is named. The interior and exterior are designed to give visitors a feeling of being nestled in the hillside, inside our winery cave experiencing a Flora Springs barrel tasting. Ultimately, every detail in the new tasting room relates back to winemaking–even the materials we
chose for the fixtures, which are a combination of essential winemaking components such as oak and steel,” explains Komes.

The new tasting room is the same square-footage as its predecessor and features a 32-foot-long public tasting bar for up to 16 people, three private tasting rooms for up to 12 people each, and an indoor/outdoor elevated covered picnic area. “With Miroglio’s expertise, we have created a striking structure that serves as a contemporary interpretation of our winery,” says Flora Springs General Manager Nat Komes.

“It was important to us that the structure not impose on the vineyards surrounding it, or on the hillsides that lend an important backdrop, but rather, pay homage to them. We want to bring the embrace of these legendary hillsides with us out to the highway,” adds Sean Garvey, Director of Communications and Production for the winery. Flora Springs will offer wine tastings for a minimal fee after the unveiling of the tasting room, and will introduce a series of educational wine tastings and food pairing seminars for the public to enjoy.

The new tasting room is one of many in a series of positive changes that Flora Springs Winery & Vineyards has undertaken in the past year, including the installation of solar panels to power their red wine facility, ongoing organic certification in their 650 acres of estate vineyards throughout the Napa Valley, and a new look for their labels and logo to be introduced later this year.

Flora Springs Estate Vineyards at Zinfandel Lane, St. Helena.

About Flora Springs Winery & Vineyards
Founded in 1978 by Jerry and Flora Komes along with their children, John Komes and his wife Carrie, and Julie Komes-Garvey and her husband, Pat Garvey, Flora Springs has been a family affair for three decades. Third-Generation Vintners Nat Komes and Sean Garvey, both of whom grew up at the winery and have worked there for several years, are now poised to take the helm guiding the winery into a new era of artisanal winemaking in the spirit of tradition, innovation, and community values epitomized by their grandparents Flora and Jerry Komes.

The Komes and Garvey families own 650 acres of sustainably-farmed vineyards throughout five appellations in the Napa Valley, enabling Flora Springs to maintain the quality of their wines through estate-only fruit. Part of Flora Springs’ commitment to community and innovation is through green vineyard practices; 100% of their vineyards are sustainably-farmed, and 20% (120 acres) are organic with another 240 acres set to be certified organic in 2009. 90% of Flora Springs’ red wines currently come from organically-farmed vineyards.

In December 2007, Flora Springs implemented solar power at the Komes Ranch on Zinfandel Lane, enabling all of their red wine production to go completely off the grid. In August 2008, Flora Springs will debut their new tasting room on Highway 29, just south of downtown St. Helena.

Flora Springs produces five wines that are available in all 50 states: Trilogy, a Meritage blend of traditional Bordeaux varietals ($65); Soliloquy, a 100% Sauvignon Blanc from the Sauvignon Musqué clone ($25); Barrel Fermented Chardonnay ($26); Napa Valley Merlot ($24) and Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon ($35). They also produce four small-production, vineyard-designated Cabernet Sauvignons: Rutherford Hillside Reserve ($100), Wild Boar ($85), Holy Smoke ($85), and Out of Sight ($85).