Chris B.
Yelp
Some wineries are all business. Chimney Rock has been a lot of fun activities, superlative wine, and great people that I've had contact with over the past two-plus decades. The dinners there have been outstanding events: excellent food and wines, and the people we've shared our table with.
We first discovered Chimney Rock in the mid-1990s and quickly learned to appreciate their estate Cabernet Sauvignon, a mix of CS, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, and Petite Verdot. Their 2021 Stags Leap District Cabernet is Wine Spectator's #5 wine of 2024 -- and I ordered a case last year when it came available.
My wife and I were wine club members and immensely enjoyed the functions, dinners, wine tasting that club membership affords. We've won several awards for mixing varietals; my wife -- an artist -- won several awards for best label for the wine our table of wine club members formulated (2005: "Sneak Preview" label). We carried out a bottle of our mixed wine courtesy of Chimney Rock, and was sent a magnum bottle of the award-winning cab mixture It was always fun to attend these functions -- where one of my favorite wines is made. (Regretably, my wife died unexpectedly in 2020.)
Since moving out of state, I stay in touch and visit the winery when I can. Chimney Rock has added a number of bottlings from their Arete, Kesu, Arrowhead, Alpine and Ganymede vineyards since I became a wine club member. So many choices... so little time. But online orders are filled very quickly and shipped usually the next work day after ordering. It's seamless, and the wine club people are very easy to work with -- as my latest shipment has once again proven.