Murphys, CA…It’s that time of year where we all go out and mingle and spread some holiday cheer along the way. Going to a holiday party and don’t know what to bring your favorite host or hostess… The answer is ALWAYS BRING THE WINE! We are offering not one but two exceptional holiday wine cheer packs this holiday season. Our featured two bottles of wine are the ever popular two bottles of our raspberry sparkling wine for $38.00. One to enjoy either on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and or on New Year’s Eve. Feeling a bit on the red wine side of life. The six bottles of wine include two bottles of the following wines: Calaveras Co. Touriga, Calaveras Co. Zinfandel, and the Amador Co. Zinfandel all for $66.00. Stop by the tasting room today to take full advantage of these amazing deals. Can’t make it into the tasting room but still want to have some holiday wine on hand feel free to give us a call at (209) 728-2157 or place an online order off our safe and secure shopping cart from our webpage at www.BlackSheepWinery.com. We look forward to serving you some of our award-winning wines today.

Black Sheep Winery arrived in Murphys with the 1984 harvest. From that first harvest we produced our 1984 Amador Zinfandel. The wine was styled in a big, bold way like nobody else could do. That’s what makes us Black Sheep; we’re different from the rest of the flock. We feature small batches of limited release wines handcrafted from high quality grapes grown in Calaveras and Amador Counties. We produce about 2,500 cases of wine per year, specializing in Zinfandels and Rhone varietals.

We just finished our 39th harvest, and Black Sheep is still rocking the free world! It all began in late October 1984 and most of the grapes were already picked. We got a call from an Amador County grower with unsold Zinfandel grapes, asking if we wanted them. From that moment we were off and running. The owner of Chispa Cellars generously offered to let us make our wine at his winery. Chispa was the first winery to be licensed and bonded in Calaveras County since Prohibition had ended. That winery was housed in the old Snyder barn at the end of Murphys’ Main Street. We used a small gasoline powered Zambelli crusher and an antique wooden wine press. This press is now on display at the winery. This was our humble beginning: using homeless grapes and borrowed equipment thanks to the kindness of friends. That is how 39 years of Zinfandel domination began!