CHANGE OF DATE!

Join us on Saturday and Sunday, March 20 and 21, 2010 from 11 - 3 for our Spring Pick up Party!

If you are not a wine club member - no worries, our tasting room will still be open for your tasting pleasures!

Behind the Cellar Door will be the following weekend, March 6 & 7, 2010...SAVE THE DATE!

We were featured in the tasting panel of the Sommelier Journal's April issue. It said: The relatively unknown Drytown Cellars took top honors in the [blind] tasting. Proprietors Allen and Suzanne Kreutzer bought 40 acres of vineyard land in Drytown, CA, just off Highway 49 in Amador County, in 2000, and they now make a range of wines from Barbera to Viognier.

"Kruth: This is what I would expect from an Amador-Sierra Foothills Zinfandel. It had that very pretty cranberry, red-fruit character, but it got into some of the blue fruit, and it was floral. There was a little tannin and astringency, but it was balanced by the silkiness on the palate. I would put this on my wine list."

We were also noted in the Lonely Planet's California Trips #45. "Drytown Cellars, which sits perched above a dusty driveway (not anymore!) It goes on to say how Allen is on had to greet visitors with big pours, slaps on the back and a cluttered trophy shelf. With his mess of blonde hair and gregarious, unpretentious hospitality, Kreutzer typifies Amador's spirit just as much as his wines - daring takes on zinfandel and syrah, pinot and barbera and an excellent coffee-flavored dessert wine.

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2008 Awards for Drytown Cellars Wines

2007 Awards for Drytown Cellars Wines

2009 Season

Allen may just say “they’re all right,” but experts who judge wines give Drytown Cellars wines the highest marks.

Our most recent awards go to our 2007 Primitivo which has brought home the most awards so far!Bringing home two golds and five silvers! Our 2007 Chardonnay also brought home a gold from our one and only Amador County Fair! Our NV Red on Red Table Wine was a silver and bronze medal winner at the El Dorado, Orange County and California State Fairs.

Our 2008 Malvasia Bianca, Barbera, 2006 Syrah, 2007 Zinfandel all won a silver medal at the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition, International Eastern Wine Competition and the California State Fair .

Our other medal winners were our 2007 Grenache and 2007 Sauvignon Blanc and our 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon bringing home a bronze from the El Dorado County Fair and Grand harvest Awards. Be sure to purchase our remaining medal winners while they are still in stock!

2007 Season

Our 2005 Barbera from the Lyman Vineyard is the BEST OF SHOW at the prestigious Orange County Fair, a huge honor, from one of the biggest events of the judging season. It also won a Gold from our own Amador County Fair, which judges some of the best Barberas in the world. It's other awards include Silvers from the Pacific Rim International Wine Competition, the California State Fair, the West Coast Wine Competition, and the Central California Wine Competion, and two Bronze medals from the San Diego International and the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competions.

2005 Shenandoah Valley Zinfandel got a Double Gold from the Amador County Fair, Gold from the LA County Fair and the Pacific Rim Wine Competition, a Silver from the San Diego International Wine Competion, and a Bronze from the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competion.

A later release, and so entered in limited competions, is the 2006 Primitivo, which achieved a Double Gold from the California Zinfandel Championship Competition.

Another BIG WINNER this year seems to be our latest blend of the The Red-on-Red achieved Best of Class (Double Gold) from two competions-the West Coast Wine Competion and the Pacific Rim International Wine Competition; two Gold from the New World International Wine Competion and the Orange County Fair, and two Silver from the Central California Wine Competition and the El Dorado County Fair .

2006 Season

2005 Amador County Sauvignon Blanc - Won Gold at the West Coast Wine Competion, Silver at the Calaveras County Fair, and Bronze at New York's Finger Lakes Competion, and El Dorado and Amador County Fairs.

The Amador County Fair awarded two of our 2005 vintage wines, the El Dorado Viognier and the Sierra Foothills Chardonnay, Silver Medals.

Double Gold: the 2004 Amador County Cabernet Franc, from the San Francisco Wine Competition.

2003 El Dorado Cabernet Sauvignon - Double Gold winner at the Calaveras County Fair, and a Silver medal winner at SF Chronicle Wine Competition.

And our popular Red-on-Red table wine won Silvers at the LA and El Dorado County Fairs.

We're now sold out of the 2004 Amador County Primitivo, which was awarded Double Gold by the Amador and El Dorado County Fairs, and Silvers by the LA and Orange County Fairs. Next vintage is on the way!

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