Napa Valley

Rutherford

Cabernet Sauvignon

Founders Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer Georges III

United States

Ave Winery

After many years in the wine business, AVE Winery was born to make the crème de la crème of wines. We use specialized techniques that made French wines so wonderful, giving them the ability to lead the world for centuries. We selected our barrels from the Troncais forest of France and use designer French yeast to enhance your drinking experience.

Each grape berry is hand sorted by our state of the art crusher and de-stemmer, and with our award winning consultant winemaker, our team makes some of the finest wines in the world.

Our "Founders Reserve" Pinot Noir is barrel selected and could be aged from 10+ years, but is drinking magnificently upon release. This is limited to 75-150 cases per year.
Our "Founders Reserve" Cabernet Sauvignon is fashioned in the same principle as our Pinot. Our fruit is sourced from the “Beckstoffer GIII Vineyard” and "Mount Veeder" AVA of Napa Valley and made in the classical style of any great wines.
Our "Founders Reserve" Chardonnay is so rich and balanced and is truly an American "Le Montrachet" created with 100% New French Oak from the Troncais forest of France.
Our "Founders Reserve" Syrah is so rich and fruit forward with a healthy French oak backbone, that this wine is renowned worldwide as one of the best American Syrah made. We start with our fruit from the famous Stolpman vineyard and the Troncais barrel specifically made for this wine, saignée our reserve Syrah early in the fermenting process and adds to our tremendous depth.
AVE Winery is an organization based in Redondo Beach, California that grew out of a lifelong passion for Bob Kugler.  Bob has been making wine as a hobby for more than 35 years.  In 2009, Bob began buying Pinot Noir grapes in large quantities to create his own winery.  Grapes from his first vintages were purchased from Paso Robles.  To date, AVE Winery has sold out of all vintages prior to 2012. 

For the 2013 harvest, Bob switched pinot vineyards to La Encantada in the Sta Rita Hills (SRH AVA).  At that time, Bob also purchased Syrah grapes from Stolpman Winery as well as white wine grapes – Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay – from Presqu’ile, located in Santa Maria.  Prior to the 2014 harvest, AVE Winery was allocated several acres of Cabernet Sauvignon grapes from Crouse Vineyards in the Mt. Veeder AVA (Mount Veeder Magic Vineyards) as well as Beckstoffer Georges III Vineyard in the Napa Valley AVA. 



Napa Valley

Ave Winery

2014

Founders Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer Georges III

Rutherford

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