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LIBRARY RELEASES

Salexis Wines proudly announces to you, our loyal customers, the release of three Library Wines.  Each year a small volume of each wine produced is held back in our cellar. They are frequently tasted  as they age.  When the wine is balanced with complex fruit, a deep richness and is exquisitely smooth, the wine is released as a library wine.  Fine wine lovers searching for a exceptional experience look no further! 


Library Wines sale goes until January 31, 2026 

750ML BOTTLES

A perfect amount for sipping a great wine or for your more intimate dinners.

2005 Napa Valley Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon $250

This wine exhibits the aromas and flavors of  raspberries, Bing cherries, strawberries, chocolate and toasty French oak,  abundantly.

2006 Napa Valley Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon $250

This Cabernet is full bodied, lush, and mouth coating with the aromas and flavors of blackberries, blackcurrants, sage and thyme are all layered together with complementary French oak.

MAGNUMS

Magnums can be a very special addition to your holiday festivities.

2002 Snowden Vineyards Napa Valley Merlot $150

This Merlot offers the aromas and flavors of black cherries, plums, green tea, cedar, with complementary French oak shadings. 

2005 Napa Valley Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon $750

This wine exhibits the aromas and flavors of raspberries, Bing cherries, strawberries, chocolate, and toasty French oak, abundantly.

2006 Napa Valley Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon $750

This Cabernet is full bodied, lush, and mouth coating with the aromas and flavors of blackberries,  blackcurrants, sage and  thyme are all layered together with complementary French oak.

Our Current Offerings 

We are passionate about the wines we've created. We think you will be too!

Our Holiday Gift Pack is now available! Special pricing good through 1/31/26.

Chardonnay

Fruity, rich and creamy
A group of wine bottles

HARVEST REPORT

Winemaker John Gibson walks through the vineyard
2025 Salexis Wines Harvest Report

What a difference a year makes…

In my annual harvest report, I typically speak about the growing season and how it affects the livelihood of the grapevines and the quality of the fruit that they produce for us. Last year, we had a record setting heat wave in September that sent us scrambling to get our fruit picked with the flavors that we sought before they dried out on the vines.

The 2025 growing season can be summed up in one word, cool. This spring and summer were the coolest since 1991. I remember 1991 as it was one of my last vintages at Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars. And like that year we had an above normal crop size. Our thoughts turned to would the crop ripen in a timely fashion or not. I have tracked budbreak, flowering, berry set, and veraison, (when red grapes turn from green to red and white grapes turn from green to yellow), data for many years as an indicator of when the projected harvest might be. We started out behind “schedule” throughout the spring months and a mild June was ominous sign that we would be harvesting our fruit later than usual.

July much like June had temperatures lower than normal. This made us ponder whether to reduce the crop by thinning or not. August again was cool. But a curious thing started to occur. Even without the expected heat, the maturing fruit started “catching up”. There are viticulturists around the planet that believe that regardless of the temperature of the growing season, there are empirical timelines between set and physiological ripeness for each grape variety. For Cabernet Sauvignon, it is between 120 and 125 days. For Chardonnay, it is between 105 and 110 days. This season has convinced me that their theory has merit. I had thought that we would be picking the 2025 crop 3 to 4 weeks later than normal but that was not the case. We picked all of our fruit within 5 days of our average.

The greatest benefit of the cool growing season has been in the higher than normal natural acidity of the fruit. This will allow the myriad of flavors that we seek to be vibrant and youthful. It is still too early to project the overall quality of the vintage as the Chardonnay is still fermenting in barrels and the reds are still on their skins but only time will tell.

All of our grapes are grown in the famous microclimates of the Napa Valley.

Thus the wines we hand-craft ensure you receive only the very best.


 
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