Futures Night is coming soon on Saturday, April 26th! This ticketed member-exclusive event will feature barrel tastings of 7 phenomenal Rubino Estates and Ruby Hill Wines. We are delighted to share the barrels that have been hand-selected for Futures Night by our talented team. Guests of the event will have the opportunity to taste and pre-order these gorgeous wines!
Estimated bottling date: June / July 2025
Futures Night 6-Pack Price – $130
An undeniable classic, the Ruby Hill Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon is a stunner, vintage after vintage. Richly flavorful with a heavy and satisfying mouthfeel, you can expect a voluptuous profile on the palate and long, lingering finish. Flavors like marionberry, French plum, dark chocolate, black pepper, and vanilla bean are all at home in our estate vineyard’s Cabernet Sauvignon. This Bordeaux beauty is known for its excellent ageability, so it can be enjoyed for years to come.
Estimated bottling date: June / July 2025
Futures Night 6-Pack Price – $155
Intesa is an Italian word meaning something like a friendly agreement. In the creation of blends, our winemaker is tasked with creating agreement among many elements in the wine, from flavor and weight to tannin and acidity. Intesa is a beloved blend that marries Cabernet Sauvignon and Barbera. One sip and you know this pairing was meant to be! Flavors interlace in an approachable harmony unlike any other.
Estimated bottling date: March 2026
Futures Night 6-Pack Price – $210
For lovers of all things bold, the Jewel Petite Sirah is a highlight. Audacious flavor, laden with black pepper, espresso, and dark chocolate, enchants the palate and nose. Crafted with attention to every detail and meticulous care for the farming, gentle vinification, and extended aging in carefully selected cooperage, this elegant wine is one to remember.
Estimated bottling date: June / July 2025
Futures Night 6-Pack Price – $225
This varietal is a brand-new addition to our portfolio of wines, and we are proud to see it debut at Futures Night. With fruit sourced from a carefully farmed block in the Santa Lucia Highlands, this Pinot Noir is sure to impress. With very limited production, it is likely to sell out fast. Secure your access to this new beauty by tasting and pre-ordering at Futures Night!
Estimated bottling date: March 2026
Futures Night 6-Pack Price – $130
This iconic wine celebrates the symbiosis between our vineyard and the natural ecosystem around us. The sumptuous Barbera offers classic Italian flair with refined red fruit and subtle floral and herbaceous accents. The finished product presents well-balanced acidity that meets a rich, unctuous mouthfeel that invites you to take another sip.
Estimated bottling date: June / July 2025
Futures Night 6-Pack Price – $155
A vibrant and welcoming blend, Tuscano is Cabernet-forward and accented with beloved Italian varietals. Mouthwatering and complex layering of red and black fruit notes lead into a long finish. The Cabernet provides a structured foundation, with a full mouthfeel and smooth tannin. Tuscano is named in honor of all things Tuscan, a region famous for magnificent wines, unbeatable food, and breathtaking views. We like to enjoy all these things right here in the Livermore Valley!
Estimated bottling date: June / July 2025 or March 2026
Futures Night 6-Pack Price – $225
The rich and lush Proprietary Red is a favorite of many guests and members of Rubino Estates Winery, with saturated and bright flavor. This top-secret blend is comprised of our most exceptional varietals from each vintage. The exact components are known only to our winemaker, who has crafted this unique wine especially for you! After barrel aging, the finished wine is bold and gorgeous with promise to age gracefully.
One Weekend Only – March 22nd & 23rd
Our 2025 Case Sale Blitz is almost here! In this blog, you’ll find the juicy details on wines that we will feature in this year’s sale. Additional wines may make a surprise appearance, available in very limited supply, so don’t miss out! More information about the event can be found at the bottom of this post.
This excellent Reserve Petite Sirah is deep and soulful. A velvet curtain envelops the senses, rich with classic Petite Sirah aromas and elevated by silky and graceful notes on the palate. Enjoy scents of violet, plum, clove, allspice, vanilla, and black pepper, all flowing into the palate where they join a supportive base of dark fruit framed by lingering spice. This vintage is smooth yet structured, with balance in each sip. You can expect tannin-endowed wines like these to only improve with age, so it’s the perfect time to open that 2019 and get lost in the luxury of each sip.
Case Blitz Price: $210 | Member’s Price: $185
This wine continues our reputation for phenomenal Chardonnay. Capturing the essence of California sunlight, this golden beauty opens with a classic aroma adorned with floral allure. Splendid notes of orange blossom swirl with essences of clover honey and hints of stone fruit. Toasted oak influence supports these notes with flavors reminiscent of an orange almond tart. Rich body and unctuous mouthfeel make each sip luxurious, relaxing into a smooth and flavorful finish.
Case Blitz Price: $200 | Member’s Price: $175
This club-exclusive blend is a delight to drink. A complex aroma opens with vibrant fresh fruit including juicy raspberry and blackberry. Cozy hints of dark chocolate, vanilla, and baking spices round out the profile. The luscious finish emphasizes toasty baking spice notes. The body is rich, with a medium-plus mouthfeel, very smooth tannins, and flavors that match the aroma. This vintage is a luscious blend of 58% Cabernet Sauvignon, 29% Syrah, and 13% Petite Sirah.
Case Blitz Price: $225 | Member’s Price: $200
This wine was awarded Best of Class in the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition and 92 points from Wine Enthusiast, and offers richly plush notes of marionberry, plum, cherry, violet, and vanilla. It’s the quintessential wine for a delicious steak dinner. We selected this vintage of Riserva Cabernet from the library and fell in love with the maturity and full-bodied nature of the tannin, with integrated roundness and just the right amount of ripeness.
Case Blitz Price: $210 | Member’s Price: $185
This bright and light red varietal is a traditional Italian wine. It is exceptionally prevalent in the old world and grows like a dream in California. This vintage offers a very characteristic nose for our Saugiovese, with notes of wild strawberry, vivacious red fruit, and a touch of lychee. A hint of black pepper peeks through on the palate, and rich cherry flavor accents the lingering finish. A very smooth body is accented with sassy floral notes and a mid-weight palate.
Case Blitz Price: $210 | Member’s Price: $185
Velvety and elegant, each sip dances with jammy fruit and playful floral aromas, all on a rich backdrop of purple fruit accents. This wine is a club-exclusive blend, named in honor of Ernest Ferrario. Ferrario was an Italian immigrant and the proprietor of the Estate Vineyard from 1921-1975. By the mid-twentieth century, the Ferrario family was well-known for their quality wines, especially their Zinfandel. This blend honors the Ferrarios by combining Barbera—an Italian varietal, and Zinfandel—Ferrario’s specialty. The 2020 vintage components are 50% Zinfandel, 28% Petit Verdot, 21% Barbera, & 1% Petite Sirah.
Case Blitz Price: $225 | Member’s Price: $200
Our Case Sale Blitz is our annual warehouse clear-out event, offering delicious wines at unbeatable prices so we can make room for the wines of the future! This event is hosted at Rubino Estates Winery in the covered production area around the back of the tasting room. All are welcome to attend this event at no cost, whether they are a first-time visitor or a long-time member of Ruby Hill or Rubino. No reservations are needed, just drop by, say hello, and try these featured wines!
The Case Sale Blitz will run from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on March 22nd and 23rd only. Sales are valid only while supplies last, and all wines are in limited quantity!
While the official beginning of springtime has not yet arrived, it is safe to say that winter’s grip is loosening around the estate vineyard. With blue skies and vibrant green hills, we can’t help but feel optimistic for the season to come. Scroll through this gallery to join us for a virtual walk through the freshly-pruned vineyard in the early morning light.
Our younger vines have lasted well through another winter, and they grow stronger each year.
Our older vines continue to prove their worth, with gnarled branches that hold the story of phenomenal past vintages.
As the sun comes up, every step in the vineyard is illuminated by golden light, marking the start of another day in the early 2025 growing season.
The dew that gathers on the grassy bands in between each row of vines adds to the brilliant freshness of this time of year.
Meanwhile, on the vines, the recent pruning has caused the vines to begin pulling nutrients from the ground and pushing sap out of the ends. This fills the branches with vitality and prepares the vine for the first excitement of the growing season–bud break.
Bud break is an early awakening for the vines, a true omen of spring. However, it will be some time before we see this auspicious milestone in the estate vineyard.
In the meantime, we are seeing the beauty of sunlight on bare vines as each block prepares for another great year.
Even without a leafy canopy or tender green tendrils, the views around the vineyard are worth savoring.
It’s always worth taking a moment to stop and look closely. You’ll see sunlight captured in drops of sap, and a promise of spring to come.
Every vine has a story to tell. Without the careful attention paid to each row, the wines we love would be impossible.
Pruning encourages healthy growth that produces good fruit. Cutting off the remnants of last year’s vines is an essential part of creating a healthy vineyard.
A vineyard full of happy vines will make good fruit, which is the first step in making great wines.
Thank you for joining us for this virtual walk in the vineyard. If you would like to see the vineyard up close, we invite you to visit our tasting room or book a Mello Cielo Vineyard Experience!
This Valentine’s day, we are celebrating with some sweet indulgence. It’s no secret that chocolate and wine are an ideal couple, with pairing options that will take your tastebuds to cloud nine. On this week’s blog, we have been inspired by our love for chocolate of all kinds, from truffles to fudge. We’re including a recipe for Strawberry brownies, a baked confection with all the richness of a brownie and the romance of a chocolate covered strawberry. Of course, we’re enjoying this decadent dessert alongside our wine of the month, Solera in Perpetuum, a luscious port-style dessert wine.
Recipe and photo by Meghan at Cake n’ Knife
We recommend serving these amazing brownies with our Solera in Perpetuum. This deluxe dessert wine offers dense aromas of fruit preserves, toasted almond, hazelnut, and jammy flavors of blackberry, dried plum, and cocoa. A rich, sweet mouthfeel gives way to a lingering finish.
Elevated brownies and delectable wine—what could be better? We hope you enjoy this decadent combination with someone you love. Happy Valentine’s Day!
The annual San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition is the largest competition of North American wines, offering an impressive lineup of competitor wines from all over the United States. Each year, we submit several Ruby Hill favorites to go head-to-head in this prestigious competition, and the 2025 results have officially arrived! To celebrate, we are taking a moment to shine the spotlight on our winners: 2021 Jewel Cabernet Sauvignon, 2022 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon, and 2021 Odyssey.
This wine is smooth, spicy, with aromas of black currant confiture, black plum, cardamom, dried florals, and notes of orange vanilla cream on the nose. The flavors on the palate are Black raspberry, blackberry jam, spiced dark chocolate, interlaced with ginger, earth, and a dry, juicy finish. Decant and enjoy. — Tonya Pitts, Wine Enthusiast
Earning critical acclaim vintage after vintage, this stunning Cabernet is an absolute knockout. Rich, deep, and with lots of aging potential, we recommend this gold-medal Jewel Cabernet Sauvignon for memorable meals. We like to pair this wine with peppery, earthy, and dense foods, making it perfect for chilly days.
A signature aroma of vibrant fresh fruit, including cherry and black currant, is joined by hints of violet and graceful oak accents. Dried fruit notes emerge on the palate, with craisin and prune, while maintaining youthful brightness into the finish.. The mouthfeel is full, with a touch of grippy tannins that relax quickly. Delightful layered complexity leaves you wanting more!
A very recent release, this relatively young Cab is already drinking exceptionally well. Rich and flavorful character permeates the entire experience as you enjoy this vintage, which has earned the coveted Double Gold Medal. Enjoy this Cabernet with medium-rare steak, aged cheddar, or double chocolate cak
The lovely aroma of this wine opens up with grand complexity. Lush layers of fruit notes, including bing cherry, raspberry, strawberry and marionberry, enrich the air. The mouthfeel is rich and velvety on the palate, with seamless harmony of tannins and acidity creating luxurious structure. Dark fruit notes create a lavish tapestry of flavor and lead into a long and fruit-forward finish. The tannin character will allow this vintage to mature well for years to come.
This vintage is “Chapter 2” of our limited-edition Odyssey series, a small-lot wine crafted to celebrate the history of the Estate Vineyard. This stunning blend is modeled after timeless right-bank Bordeaux blends. Earning the noteworthy “Best of Class” award, the Odyssey truly stands out as a wine to remember.
Life is too short to drink bad wine, so stock up on these winners today! Click here to shop our critically acclaimed wines.
