Brutocao Cellars

Specialties

Passion for their craft turns winemakers into artists. And it’s their artistic expression that transforms grape juice into gold, silver and bronze medals at wine competitions across the country. Winning a gold medal doesn’t always mean a wine is a classic, but winning a number of medals and accolades in prestigious wine publications means something’s up … in Mendocino County.

Fermenting in small lots intensifies fruit flavors. Leaving many of our red wines unfiltered ensures that they retain all their full, rich character. Practices, like punching down the cap by hand or using whole-​berry fermentation for reds and whole-​cluster pressing in white wines, also contribute to the flavor nuances that constitute Brutocao quality. These time-​honored, less-​invasive methods produce a more complex and memorable wine.

It isn’t luck any more, it is artistic passion.

History

Established in 1980.

Winemaking traditions often begin around the table. Brutocao Cellars’ roots go back three generations to a Venice dinner table.

When the Brutocao family came to the New World and married into the Bliss family of farmers, it was only natural that they would combine their passions and become grape growers and winemakers.

Today, the family still blends their Italian heritage with their rural agricultural lifestyle to make some of California’s finest wines.

Grandfather Irv Bliss purchased our Mendocino County property in 1943. The Brutocao family released their first wine with the 1980 vintage. Shortly thereafter, they chose the Lion of St. Mark, modeled after the lion on top of St. Mark’s Cathedral in Venice, Italy, as their symbol of family tradition and quality. That quality comes from the location of their 400 acres of vineyards in southern Mendocino County.

The Brutocao family tradition of serving wine at the table means wines are produced with good food and good friends in mind.

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