Alpha Omega July 2025 Wine Tasting Experience

Welcome to the Alpha Omega Wine Club November 2025 Harvest Wine Tasting Experience featuring Alpha Omega winemaker Melissa Paris, vintners Robin and Michelle Baggett, and everyone's favorite Alpha Omega Ambassador Barrett Spiegel. This short video contains tasting notes of your two November Wine Club selections along with a harvest menu that includes K.O.W. Cattle Company, rooted in over 125 years of family ranching and one of America's premier producers of wagyu beef. Harvest is concluded in our vineyards and the colors of fall grow more intense each day as each vineyard becomes a brilliant tapestry of yellow, orange, and red. In our cellar the captivating aromas of fermenting red wine fills the air as each barrel quietly begins its journey into handcrafted excellence. At the winery we are busily preparing for our 20th anniversary in 2026 featuring a year-long lineup of special curated Wine Club events celebrating 20 years of close friendships, priceless memories, and world-class wine. Your two November 2025 Wine Club selections are an inspiring pair of bold mountain-grown Cabernet Sauvignon. Cabernet Sauvignon Atlas Peak 2022 and Cabernet Sauvignon Mount Vidor 2022. Let's start with Alpha Omega Cabernet Sauvignon Atlas Peak 2022. It's comprised of 94% Cabernet Sauvignon and 6% Malbec. 50% of this wine was fermented in French oak barriques and 50% in stainless steel tanks and then aged for 18 months and 30% new French oak barriques. This wine has ripe, engaging aromas of cherry, red plum, and blueberry accented by notes of roasted hazelnut, graphite, and toast complemented on the palate by medium full-bodied flavors of cranberry, strawberry, and dark cherry enhanced by leather, dusty earth, and firm tannins. Atlas Peak AVA is in the southeast corner of the Napa Valley and the southern flank of the Vacca Mountains. Lying in the shadow of 2,700-foot Atlas Peak Mountain, the AVA looks like one huge open amphitheater, the result of a huge landslide millions of years ago that created a dramatic mix of volcanic rock-based soils. Cool nighttime air from San Pablo Bay offsets the warm sunny days that produce full-bodied, powerful Cabernet Sauvignon. Atlas Peak is historically known for the stagecoach trail to Sacramento and Monticello that was frequently robbed by the infamous Black Bart a.k.a. Charles Earl Bowles in the 1870s. Directly across the Napa Valley from Atlas Peak is Mount Veder, the home of your second wine club selection Cabernet Sauvignon Mount Veder 2022. It is comprised of 97% Cabernet Sauvignon, 2% Malbec, and 1% Cabernet Franc. 75% of this wine was fermented in French oak barriques and 25% in stainless steel tanks and then aged for 18 months in 30% new French oak barriques. Featuring aromas of cassis and black cherry mixed with anise, dark earth, and nutmeg, this medium full-bodied wine has rich mouth-coating flavors of blackberry and boysenberry with notes of cocoa and cedar along with a classic structure for aging. Pour them into canter about an hour before serving to enhance the unique character of both of these mountain-grown wines. West of the town of Napa, Mount Veder is made up of two ridges in the southern Mayacamas mountains with vineyards located as high as 2,500 feet. Known as Napa's Redwoods, over 85% of Mount Veder AVA is covered by dense natural forest with only about a thousand acres planted to vines. As the closest mountain appellation to San Pablo Bay, it benefits from cool marine influences that produce long-lived Cabernet Sauvignon. Mount Veder is named after Dutch Presbyterian pastor Pieter Vieter who was the reverend at the First Presbyterian Church in Napa during the Civil War. Celebrating the end of harvest with the bounty of the season and Alpha Omega wines presents an opportunity for us to give heartfelt thanks to Mother Nature for another successful vintage and to look ahead to our year-long 20th anniversary celebration schedule in 2026. Featured at this year's harvest celebration lunch with winemaker Melissa Paris, Vintners Robin and Michelle Baggett and Alpha Omega ambassador Barrett Spiegel was KOW Cattle Company, sixth generation ranchers from the Midwest and one of the original U.S. suppliers of renowned highly sought-after Wagyu beef and a perfect pairing for your Alpha Omega wines at holiday get-togethers with friends and family. Vintner Robin Baggett has some interesting details about KOW Cattle Company. Hello everyone Robin Baggett here, Alpha Omega. When I first met John Urbana I knew it was a marriage made in heaven for two reasons. One was he was in the cattle business and I'm in the cattle business at least for 40 years actually more than 40 years so there we had a love affair and second he discovered a way to sell his product like we have here at Alpha Omega direct to consumer. Now his family are very unique and they have special beef and that is Wagyu beef and they were one of the few that brought it maybe the first that brought it over from Japan in 1970 and as I understand it now you can't bring that cattle to America anymore the road is closed and so they were able to develop some cross-bred Angus with this Wagyu. Now Wagyu in Japanese means Japanese cattle so it's basically a cross breed between those two and in particular why it's so good is because that Japanese cattle has figured out a way to get more of the fat throughout the muscle than American beef it's just off the chart. His family's been in the business for 125 years I think it's six generations so they know what they're doing. With food on the table it's time for everyone to enjoy this harvest luncheon and joyfully reflect. Okay Melissa then what will you remember most from this harvest? There's so many things to think about I think the weather windows I think the personalities of my crush equipment right but really I think just the the fun that my team had our AO team had interacting with everything and the interactions that I had with our outside growers I think is the things that I'm going to remember the most. Oh that's a blessing. Excellent. Melissa thank you for sharing the update on 2025 it was fantastic to hear all the excitement that you're going through all the fun logistic not challenges but wonderful things to think through every day and I'm so grateful to our entire staff at Alpha Omega everyone is so loving and caring and I'm so grateful for our wine club family so I'd like to toast to all the people that we're surrounded by with joy every single day. What a great team. Michelle well said and reflecting back on 2025 I just want everyone to know that we have one more great event scheduled for the end of the year it's Sunday December 7th it's our season of giving toy drive here at Alpha Omega really an event that epitomizes the ethos of Alpha Omega a toy drive to support the local community here and looking forward to 2026 we have an incredible lineup of events to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Alpha Omega winery can't wait but also season of giving December 7th we're going to have an incredible lineup of wines plus we're going to have an opportunity for our members to get some holiday gift packs for their friends and family for the holiday season so a lot to be thankful for a lot to be excited about here at Alpha Omega. Inside your club shipment you'll find a special insert with our 2026 wine club event schedule your insert also has a QR code that will take you to a landing page with special holiday gift offers. Guys I would love to give one final toast to our Alpha Omega family out there cheers to you all and we look forward to seeing you in 2026 cheers cheers