The ball has dropped and a new year is upon us! We wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for including Kendall-Jackson wines on your list of favorites.

In the past 27 years, Kendall-Jackson has grown from a tiny new winery producing just one bottling of Chardonnay from our family vineyard to one of the most recognized wine labels in America. While the size of our winery may have changed, our approach has stayed pretty much the same: focus on the vineyards.  As we tend to the 2010 wines now resting in the cellar, we look out into the Jackson Estates Vineyards in anticipation of the 2011 growing season and another year of doing what we love to do.

We hope you continue to enjoy the wines we produce, and that they find their way onto your table when you raise a glass with family and friends. We are particularly excited about a new lightly-oaked Chardonnay release called Avant to be introduced in the Spring. (Avant was recently featured on the Today Show).  Stay tuned to our blog to learn more about this new style of Chardonnay from the Kendall-Jackson winemaking team.

In the meantime, Happy New Year from all of us here at Kendall-Jackson!