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August 2, 2023

Celebrate National White Wine Day with Vermentino

August 4 is National White Wine Day, and what better way to celebrate than with our new release 2022 Vermentino — a truly unique wine. Flora...

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Pat Garvey First Harvest at Flora Springs

May 3, 2023

A Love Affair With Chardonnay

Flora Springs’ love affair with the Chardonnay varietal began when the winery was founded in 1978. In fact, you could say that it’s Chardonnay...

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The debut release of our 2022 Vermentino

May 2, 2023

Presenting the 2022 Vermentino

Flora Springs has always been committed to creating and sharing exciting white wine. After all, it was our gold-medal winning Chardonnay that put...

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November 7, 2022

John Komes on His 44th Napa Valley Harvest

“I’ve never seen anything like it,” said John Komes, speaking about the 2022 harvest. He should know, he’s been through 44 of them!...

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October 15, 2022

Night Harvest

by Nat Komes, Flora Springs General Manager When our family founded Flora Springs in the late 1970s, harvest was a family affair, with relatives and...

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Out of Sight Single Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

June 30, 2022

This Cabernet’s Aging Capacity Is Out of Sight

Our Out of Sight Cabernet Sauvignon represents the best of both worlds: a wine that is wonderfully approachable in its youth, but with the capacity...

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May 30, 2022

We Have a Thirst for Conserving Water

When you live in California, you understand deep down that water is a precious resource. Periodic droughts have been a fact of life here for decades...

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2018 Sangiovese from Flora Springs in Napa Valley

May 2, 2022

Flora Springs Sangiovese Featured in Napa Valley Life Magazine

Note: The article excerpted below was originally published in the Napa Valley Life Magazine and can be found here. “Napa Valley is synonymous...

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2018 Celebrating Our 40th Harvest Cabernet Sauvignon

December 16, 2021

A Wine Like No Other

The year 2018 marked our 40th harvest at Flora Springs, a milestone we commemorate with this special bottling of single vineyard Napa Valley Cabernet...

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July 29, 2021

In the Vineyards

With harvest just around the corner we thought we’d take you through a pictorial of the 2021 growing season so far. Though we have yet to bring our...

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John Komes brings in Cabernet Sauvignon destined for our Rutherford Hillside Reserve

June 3, 2021

A Ground Breaking Innovation: Rutherford Hillside Reserve Single Vineyard Cabernet

We’re often asked which of our Single Vineyard Cabernets is our favorite, and the answer is always the same: we love them all! But our Rutherford...

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February 19, 2021

The Beginning, Middle and End: The Story of the 2018 Trilogy

by Enrico Bertoz, Winemaker The 2018 Trilogy is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec and Petit Verdot, and if you’ve been keeping track, you’ll...

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January 28, 2021

A Tasting Room for the Senses

by John Komes It was the early 1990s and Flora Springs had been in business for just over ten years when I decided we needed to have a tasting room...

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October 2, 2020

John & Nat Komes Featured in Napa Valley Register

Note: The article excerpted below was originally published in the Napa Valley Register and can be found here. ‘I’ll tell you a story,” John...

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August 10, 2020

The Places In Between

One of the many reasons Napa Valley is such a superb region for growing wine grapes is its incredible diversity. Although a mere 30 miles long and...

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2017 Howell Mountain Dust & Glory Cabernet Sauvignon

July 8, 2020

Presenting Dust & Glory

We are so pleased to introduce our first new Single Vineyard Cabernet in over two decades. John and Nat have been working on this project for years,...

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June 15, 2020

Presenting the 2019 Soliloquy: A Singular Wine

By General Manager Nat Komes Soliloquy is named for Flora Springs’ proprietary Sauvignon Blanc clone, a singular clone entirely unique to us. It...

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June 20, 2019

Vineyard Update from Winemaker Paul Steinauer

In Napa Valley this time of year, you’re likely to see vineyard crews scattered amongst the vines. “What are they doing,” you ask? They are...

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May 30, 2019

How are Wine Corks Made?

Ever wonder how a wine cork is made? Winemaker Paul Steinauer recently traveled to Portugal for a behind-the-scenes look into the cork-making process...

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November 15, 2018

Ruth Harper’s Special Holiday Delivery

Ruth Harper, the illustrator who designed our 2016 Holiday Helper Cabernet Sauvignon and our 2015 Dashaway Chardonnay and whose work has been...

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November 5, 2018

The Making of the 2016 Holiday Helper Cabernet

Our one-of-a-kind Holiday Wines are a year-round labor of love. Each year, the artwork changes and provides a unique, limited-edition Napa Valley...

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October 10, 2018

Harvest 2018: Update #3 from Winemaker Paul Steinauer

Looking out across the Flora Springs Estate on this warm and sunny day, one would never know that fires were ravaging through parts of the Napa...

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September 18, 2018

Harvest 2018: Update #2 from Winemaker Paul Steinauer

Tuesday, September 18th, 2018 was a day of “firsts” at Flora Springs: the first day we harvested Chardonnay as well as the first day of...

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Cabernet Sauvignon Going Through Veraison

August 17, 2018

Winery & Vineyard Update from Winemaker Paul Steinauer: Harvest 2018

Well it’s that time of year again when we start thinking about the upcoming harvest. In the winery we are just finishing up the last of the...

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July 24, 2018

2017 Trilogy Update

One of the interesting facets of Trilogy is that at any one time we are working with two to three vintages…sometimes more. For instance, our 2015...

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March 23, 2018

The Renewal that Spring Brings

The simple practice of meditation can bring immense peace with profound results. Nature has a lot to do with reconnecting with our souls, and in...

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February 22, 2018

The 2017 Vintage: Quality and Resilience

We’re excited to release our first wine from the 2017 vintage, our 2017 Napa Valley Pinot Grigio. 2017 was a momentous year in Napa Valley, and we...

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January 24, 2018

How Did Wild Boar Cabernet Sauvignon Get Its Name?

By John Komes, Proprietor, Flora Springs Everyone who knows me knows I have an affinity for wild boars. That’s why we named one of our Single...

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September 1, 2017

Flora Springs Featured in the Weekly Calistogan: Napa Valley Harvest Reports for 2017

Note: The following was excerpted from an article written by David Stoneberg and published in The Weekly Calistogan. The full article can be found...

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July 21, 2017

Vineyard Update by John Komes

by John Komes Over that past few weeks our vineyards have been abuzz with activity. As farmers, our family constantly tends to the vineyards...

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June 20, 2017

Winemaker Update 2017 #3

It’s that time of year when the bottling season is upon us. We have completed bottling all of our 2016 white wines, and are now bottling the 2015...

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May 12, 2017

Flora Springs: 40 years of stories in the Napa Valley, The Napa Valley Register

Note: The following article about Flora Springs Winery 40th Anniversary was written by Sasha Paulsen and published in The Napa Valley Register can...

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May 11, 2017

Winemaker Update 2017 #2

“To ensure we are obtaining only the most premium fruit, we have had to make the difficult decision to replant vineyards when the quality...

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September 14, 2016

2013 All Hallow’s Eve Cabernet Franc – Featuring Unique Halloween Custom Label Art from John Manders

Flora Springs has the distinction of being home to one of Napa Valley’s original “ghost wineries” – wineries built between...

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July 15, 2016

Harvest 2016 Update #1

“This is from a block of Merlot in the Komes Ranch vineyard at the Flora Springs Estate and these grapes go into the Trilogy blend. Based on...

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September 22, 2014

Harvest 2014 Update #12: Merlot Pump Over

Join Winemaker Paul Steinauer as he explains what’s happening when we do a pump over with our...

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September 4, 2014

Harvest 2014 Update #9: A Grape’s Journey

Join Winemaker Paul Steinauer as the Flora Springs team brings in the first red wine grapes of the 2014...

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