Future Production

From its first 2005 har­vest, Monte De Oro has over 10,000 cases of wine which were released in 2009, after the Winery’s offi­cial opening.

While Monte De Oro’s wines will con­tinue to be made via a custom-crush rela­tion­ship with Temec­ula Val­ley Win­ery Man­age­ment, our goal is to have 100% full wine­mak­ing pro­duc­tion oper­a­tions at the Win­ery by the 2012 har­vest. This will include a state-of-art crush pad and fer­men­ta­tion tank farm and a 90–95% nat­ural grav­ity flow wine­mak­ing process.

The crush pad and fer­men­ta­tion tank area will be a nat­ural grav­ity flow wine­mak­ing facil­ity at the back end of the prop­erty on a nat­ural slope in the ter­rain. There will be a two-tier fer­men­ta­tion tank farm; all the grapes will be sorted on a sort­ing table and crushed on top, filled into tanks below, and racked into bar­rels at the bottom.

By 2011, Monte De Oro’s total grape pro­duc­tion from OGB’s four vine­yards will be approx­i­mately 260 grape tons, rais­ing Monte De Oro’s wine pro­duc­tion to 16,640 cases, just shy of 200,000 bottles.