Two of the Four California Green Medal Winners are Certified Organic, Once Again Punching Above Their Weight in a State Where Only 4 Percent of Vines are Organic

While only 4 percent of California's vineyard acreage is certified organic, two out of the four producers (or 50%) who won California Green Medal Awards are certified organic in their vineyards. Those producers are Cooper Garrod, a family owned winery and horse farm (and former apricot farm) in Saratoga in the heart of Silicon Valley, and Gloria Ferrer, a Spanish owned sparkling wine producer in Sonoma's Carneros. 

Cooper Garrod was pouring Sunday at The Mountain Winery's event tasting the wines of the Santa Cruz Mountains and I was reminded by just how great their wines are. 

They were pouring a 2002 in the VIP room, where I saw next to some big high rollers (who drink those $25,000 Burgundies) who went back for second glasses of the Cooper Garrod. Plus I really like that the Cooper Garrod winery's picnic area is so welcoming and the history of their winery so emblematic of the region. Bravo.

P.S. If you have guests coming, Cooper Garrod is a great place because it's like a mini museum AND they have horseback riding (by reservation only) and 150 acres of land. If they're not wine experts, there is plenty here to entertain them.