Our Wines

Making great wine is a balance of experience, intuition, discipline and discovery.

Amy Thorn, owner and winemaker, is passionate about each artisan wine she crafts.

She personally selects and oversees each varietals production. Each vintage is created by premium fruit selection, fine winemaking, and master blending.

Always mindful of producing exceptional high quality wines, her discerning palate and unrelenting attention to detail produces small batch lots of quality wines with as little as a few hundred cases per varietal.

At ThornHill Vineyards the focus is small production, single vineyard wines from properties that are the most distinctive in their appellation. They strive to create full bodied, intensely flavored, richly textured wines of structure, depth and balance that reflect the specific qualities of each vineyard site.

Good winemaking begins in the vineyard with nurturing the grapes in order to cultivate fruit that is imbued with the nuances of the terroir. Soil is prepared, vines are pruned and crops are thinned throughout the growing season to maximize the concentration of flavors in the grapes. They strive to achieve the height of ripeness, not only in the fruit but the stems, skins and seeds, all of which make up the characteristics of a truly superior wine.

Grapes are harvested and sorted by hand, allowing them to go through primary and secondary (malolactic) fermentation. With red wines skin contact is extended during winemaking which allows for increased complexity and richer color in the finished wine. Wines are aged in hand selected French oak barrels until optimal integration is achieved.

"The greatest gift you can give as a winemaker is to create a bottle of wine that is the purest expression of each varietal, a wine that is a combination of nature and nurture. Resulting in a vintage which represents a union between the fruit of the vine, richness of the earth and the passion of the winemaker." Amy Thorn, Winemaker