Peacock Family Vineyard, Napa Valley, California

Peacock at the Oscars
March 2006
Los Angeles, March 2006---Peacock Family Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon will be included in the 78th Annual Academy Awards® gift basket given to the celebrity presenters and performers at the awards ceremony on March 5 in Hollywood.

Celebrity presenters and performers will each receive an elaborate letter-press certificate for an unusual wine and cheese tasting---to be conducted in their homes by Barrie Lynn, The Cheese Impresario. Barrie Lynn is one of southern California’s most respected experts on cheeses; she writes a monthly column in The Beverly Hills Times called “Cheese Matters” and is often quoted in Variety as well as the popular food blog, EatingLA, and Ben Adair’s Pacific Drift on KPCC 83.9 FM in Los Angeles.

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SanDiegoReader.com
June 30, 2005
Natural Magic / Crush: "Why would you age a wine?" asks Craig Becker, winemaker at -- among other places -- Peacock Family Vineyard, which produces a Cabernet from Napa's Spring Mountain District. "We age wine because of the winemaking tradition that came from Europe. Those wines required aging; they needed time for acids to soften or drop, for tannins to soften. In California, we can do that on the vine. We can get things to a point where it's delicious just after it's bottled. We're making fleshy, immediately enjoyable wines -- because we can. If anybody's had a Harlan, they know that it's going to age nicely, but it's really good right now."

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Los Angeles Daily News
June 17, 2005
PROUD AS A PEACOCK: If you haven’t heard about it yet, you probably will pretty soon. I’m referring to the estate 2001 Cabernet Sauvignon from Peacock Family Vineyard of Napa Valley’s Spring Mountain District. Given its price ($60), it’s one of those very well-made (by young winemaker Craig Becker) special wines you buy to lay down for the right occasion in the future or give to a wine-loving friend or relative as a gift.

Vinography: A Wine Blog
March 17, 2005
2000 Cabernet Sauvignon: Tasting Notes:
A bright, medium ruby color in the glass this wine has a lovely nose of bright cherry aromas with a hint of coffee and oak. In the mouth it is jumping with equally bright flavors of cherry cola and tobacco, with very light tannins that support a decent finish. Nicely balanced this is a very easy drinking claret-style Cabernet with typical flavors for Spring Mountain fruit. It will last for some time (5-8yrs?) in the bottle, but the flavors will be best in the next couple of years.

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