Clarbec Wines

Specialties

By Appointment Only –Call 707−996−4012 (Requires 24 hour notice) Tasting and Tours available — Come meet the winemaker and family!

Clarbec Wines and Madrone Vineyard Management are a Jenkins family enterprise that has worked hard to preserve the art of vineyard management and winemaking. Every bottle of Clarbec wine demonstrates the family’s commitment and experience and incorporates a mix of conventional and modern practices to ensure sustainability in Sonoma County’s wine production community.

«Our family has held onto the age old traditions of knowing our product from field through bottling. We feel that we are working to preserve the true art of vineyard production. We do not outsource grapes from any vineyard we do not know intimately.»

History

Established in 2005.

On a night lit by a glow from the Valley of the Moon, the Jenkins family gathered around the kitchen table and decided to extend their rich heritage of tending the world’s best grapes by producing a rare and classic collection of their own fine wines. Three generations of the Jenkins family have worked the land and tended the vines of Sonoma Valley. Please join us in a Jenkins family tradition and share a glass of CLARBEC wines with those you love.

Meet the Manager

Isaac A.

Manager

Isaac Jenkins, WineMaker and VP of Wine Operations, holds a B.S. in Enology from Fresno State University, and is the son of Becky and Clarence Jenkins, who own both Clarbec Wines and Madrone Vineyard Management. The family operations represent one of the rare remaining vineyard-​to-​bottle winemakers left in the region. Clarence and Becky have combined farming with wine making for five decades. Their vine to bottle attention to detail creates true, old world craftsmen style wines.

Isaac is responsible for the vineyard from pruning to harvest and from crush to bottle. The 2012 Chardonnay was the first wine produced totally under the supervision of Isaac Jenkins.

«Yes it felt pretty good to put this one in the bottle,» said Jenkins. «I’ve been in the field with my dad since I was five years old and wanted to be a winemaker since I could remember, but this is actually my first bottle of wine that I can say I did it all, and it is for the family.»