They have worked meticulously over the past five years to understand the connection of what they do in the vineyards and how that correlates to character of the wines those sites produce. Vezér took over farming of its own vineyards after the 2016 harvest and since then has not looked back. “Love, sweat and hands-on connection is our reasoning. Just like when you cook with the intention of love. “Frank Vezér has always made red wines (white wines these days) in 1-ton fermenters with hand-punchdowns being the primary source of cap management,” Stuessy said. This can be done through many different techniques. Because of this, the juice needs contact with skins to extract the character of the grapes. When red wine ferments it creates ethanol, heat and CO2. The Co2 pushes the skins – the source of flavors, color and tannin – to the top of the fermenting must. Stuessy said that since the beginning, Frank Vezér wanted his wines to made with love and personal connection.
“Gary would go on to be a mentor, showing me every day what it was to live wine. I’ll never repay that debt to Gary, Frank or wine. “My life would never be the same,” Stuessy said. Vezér Family Vineyard hired Gary Galleron, a legendary winemaker with deep roots in Napa to early 1970s, in 2008 to take over winemaking duties. When harvest came around, he was pulled from those duties to work harvest. Crushing grapes, punchdowns and pressing would be all he knew for the next few months. Stuessy started off working in the tasting room and deli. “As I look back now, for whatever reason, wine accepted me. I was a lost Iowa kid just trying to stay afloat in a hopeless existence,” Stuessy said. “I came to California and started working for Frank and Liz Vezer in 2007. Vezér also host weddings, music events, corporate events and so much more.Ī big part of Vezér’s success is Jake Stuessy, the winemaker. The second Milestone brand is College Tuition, with more to come. The first one is Baby Maker, 96 points and Double Gold Winner at the Press Democrat North Coast Wine Challenge. A fourth location is coming soon.Ī new project is the Frank and Liz Vezér Milestone brand. Vezér is a small production winery, with the majority of its sales going to its wine club members and to patrons, most of them locals to extend to the Bay Area and to Northern California, who visit the three different tasting locations. What started as one vineyard has grown to three scenic sites with 60 acres of Suisun Valley grapelands. Since then, they have produced several additional vintages that have won accolades and awards from across the country and worldwide. They decided to establish their own wines and produced their first vintage of Zinfandel in 2003. Vezer started with selling grapes to among the best in the region and are used in well-known wines, such as Sin Zin and Ravenswood, and now most grapes stay in house or sell to small family passionate wineries.įrank and Liz Vezér came to the Suisun Valley 20 years ago.
Their winery is best known for its Petite Sirah, Zinfandel and Verdelho. Vezér Family Vineyard is a Suisun Valley winery owned by Frank and Liz Vezér. Unlike Napa Valley, the Suisun Valley can boast of many quiet days where the beauty of the hills on the horizons and the splendor fields of vineyards is not scarred by miles of roadways crowded with miles of bumper-to-bumper cars and tour buses creeping along at a snail’s pace. If you’ve ever tried to enjoy the wineries of Napa on a weekend during the summer or at harvest season, you likely come away believing those 5 million visitors chose to visit the same weekend you chose to indulge in some grape.Įast of Napa, on the other side of the Howell Mountains, which are also known as the Mount George Range, is another of California’s grape-growing region – Suisun Valley, whose appelation was established in December 1982. SUISUN VALLEY - More than 5 million people visit the Napa Valley wine country every year.
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