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Cinnabar Winery at 1650 feet looks like little islands above the fog layer.

Cinnabar Winery is perched at about
1650 feet on the eastern edge of the
Santa Cruz Mountains range, where its vineyards look like little islands poking up above the Pacific Ocean fog.

Santa Cruz Mountains (AVA)

Passionate About Cab
in the Santa Cruz Mountains:
George Troquato & Cinnabar Winery

Cabernet is so weather dependent, it is a real struggle to get it ripe in this climate. One year you’ll have an austere Cab, and the next, a wine which is nice, rich and dark.
~George Troquato

by Laura Ness
February 9, 2007



It was a crisp winter afternoon when I went to visit George Troquato, the winemaker at the Cinnabar Winery. In fact, it was actually warmer in the cellar than it was outside: a rarity. Perched at about 1650 feet on the eastern edge of the Santa Cruz Mountains range, the vineyards overlook the Silicon Valley below, like little islands poking up above the Pacific Ocean fog. The operation is impressive: clean, organized and immaculate. The winery, which has been operating for over twenty years, presently makes 15,000 cases of wine. Very little of that represents wines in the SCM program. But that is changing.

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