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Welcome to Burch Hall Winery!
Hello and welcome. The awkward evil of a formal introduction to Burch Wines just now seems unavoidable. In the somewhat harrowingly personal narrative to follow, I will act as tour guide and terribly biased critic.
In the late summer of 2003, thick rivers of purply juice, skins and seeds flowed into fermentors at Burch Hall Winery in Grass Valley, California. The winemaker watched in the spirit of a gentle music teacher listening with apparent bliss to the malformed squeaks and wails coming from an innocent instrument held to the lips of an earnest, big-eyed pupil. In that moment, covered with dust and sticky substances originating in the violent maw of the crusher, he alone could accurately predict the perfection to follow, slowly, calmly to follow. The blossoming of the new, untrained musician into a virtuoso – the transformation from crushed fruit into the elegant, clean wines Burch Hall offers you now.
Above the din of small motors and the messiness of the crush, it took some small moment to realize that something huge and at the same time humble was about to happen; as if all of what little or much grace in the world was suddenly working through this dusty place.
Open yourself to the experience of wines born out of passion in a place without pretense. You may catch a glimpse of something reflected in your glass—a late summer day in California, a memory of stars over a wet street in Prague or a bloody nose when you were seven—sometimes a thing as small as a glass of good wine can crack the whole world open.
Burch Hall and Coyoteville wines offer richness uncommon in an increasingly commercial industry. Our riches come in the form of a human story of passion for wine, love of a place and a vision of wine produced by family and good friends.
| Tasting Room Hours |
| Every Day! | Noon – 5 PM |
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| Our Winery |
| Wine enthusiasts young and old are invited to visit the Burch Hall Winery tasting room in historic downtown Grass Valley to learn more about how we produce our wines. We are open daily from noon until 5:00 p.m. for wine tastings, and offer a variety of special events throughout the year. | | |
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| ©2008. Burch Hall Winery. |
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