Odisea welcomes you to SPRING.

This is a special time of year for us, which we greet with much excitement - the beginning of what will become a new Vintage! The brilliant mustard is in full bloom in the vineyards and the vines are just starting to bud, re-awakening from their winter’s rest, a year older and hopefully a year wiser. It is a time of great anticipation of what is to come, watching the vines come back to life. It is also a time of great inspiration as we begin to talk to our growers about the upcoming harvest and we begin to release our first wines from the 2008 harvest.

All our wines are first offered exclusively to our mailing list customers on a first-come, first-serve basis. We are announcing the release of three new wines with this mailing. Get them while you can!

Dream Albarino

ImageOur first wine from the 2008 vintage is our Dream Albarino! This exotic Spanish white wine has great heritage in that these vines from Sueno and Las Cerezas Vineyards in Lodi were propagated from cuttings brought back from Galicia, Spain by Markus Bokisch. The wine is deliciously crisp and lively, showing bright floral and citrus aromas and flavors. It is essentially Spring in a glass and will serve well with all the seasonal foods you crave this spring and summer. $18.00/bottle.

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Two Rows Garnacha

ImageWe are also introducing the new vintage of our perennial favorite, the 2007 Two Rows Garnacha. This is our version of the Grenache-based wines we love from Northeastern Spain. The 2007 vintage hails from 28 year-old vines at Lewis vineyard in Lodi’s Clements Hills and contains 15% Tempranillo from the same vineyard. Bright cherry, berry and cola flavors dance on the tongue with a supple, sexy texture and hints of toasty oak. $25.00/bottle.

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Unusual Suspects

ImageFinally, we celebrate the much anticipated release of our newest red wine, the 2007 Unusual Suspects. For those of you who attended our Rose party last year, we poured this wine as a barrel sample and many of you were trying to convince us to bottle it immediately. Trust us you will like it even better now. This is a blend of 100+ year Old Vine Carignane, Tempranillo and Grenache. Inspired by blends from the Monstant region of Spain, this wine is a smooth drinking delight. Wild strawberry, blueberries and vanilla cream aromas and flavors are matched with an elegant, silky texture that makes for perfect spring and summer sipping. $20.00/bottle.

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News

The 2008 Harvest marked many exciting changes for Odisea. We moved the winery to our new location within Falcor Wine Cellar’s beautiful new state-of-the-art facility in Napa Valley. This move brings us closer to the wine we make and the vineyards we work with. This move gives us the opportunity to implement some new winemaking techniques that we feel will result in better quality wines. We were able to hand sort all of our red grapes this year with the help of a newly-christened sorting table. This gives us the unique ability to insure that only the finest fruit makes the cut for our wines. We are also aggressively improving our barrel program and lengthening the barrel and bottle aging for our reds. We also began working with several new vineyards in 2008. The wines they yielded are resting comfortably in barrel at our new home.

In other eventful news, Mike Kuenz has left his longtime position as General Manager of Willamette Valley Vineyards and Bacchus Fine Wines to focus his full attention on Odisea. We are thrilled to have Mike full time, his expertise in sales and marketing and his continued input on winemaking will no doubt be a great asset to our little company as we move into the future. We are also pleased to tell you that we are now offering tastings by appointment at the new facility. We can take you through the winery tasting the current releases as well as barrel tasting in the cellar with Adam. Just e-mail us at bigvino@odiseawineco.com or give us a call at 925-915-1662 and we will be glad to customize a special tasting odyssey for you!

Image Third Annual Rose Release Party - Pretty in Pink!

For those of you in the Bay Area or those of you who want to visit the new winery, we will be having our Third Annual Rose Release Party - Pretty in Pink!

June 6, 2009
12 PM - 3 PM
2511 Napa Valley Corporate Drive, Suite 115, Napa, CA 94558
RSVP - bigvino@odiseawineco.com - 925.915.1662

As usual, we invite you, your friends and family to wear pink, drink pink and celebrate spring with us. In addition to our 2008 Rose, we will be pouring the wines listed in this newsletter as well as some other new releases. We will also give you a sneak peak at the future red wines from the 2008 vintage that are still in barrel. The wines will be paired with French and Spanish inspired tapas style hors d'œuvres. We look forward to sharing these wines with you all.

Thank you all for your continued support in helping us realize our dreams and continuing our Journey.




2008 Spring Newsletter - New Releases!!!

Odisea welcomes you to SPRING. With the refreshing sounds, aromas and flavors of the season bursting all around us, we offer you two new wines we feel capture this spirit.

2007 Veritable Quandry White: This is a brand new wine for Odisea. It combines our love and passion for the white wines from France’s Rhone Valley and Spain’s signature white wine, Albarino, from the Galician Coast. Although these grapes are not typically blended together, in our attempt to bring you the most exciting, interesting and delicious wine possible, we gave it a try and discovered a little bit of magic that is the 2007 Veritable Quandry White! The only Quandry here is how much you can get your hands on! This is a seriously delicious dry white and represents a sensational value in our Portfolio. Enjoy! This wine sells for $18 a bottle.

2006 Temporary Insanity: The other release we feel best represents the flavors of spring is the third version of our Tempranillo-based red wine and perennial favorite we call Temporary Insanity. With all of its vibrant, pure fruit flavors combined with spice and toasty, smoky notes, it will be a great match with spring lamb, fresh herbs and literally anything off the grill. While this wine drinks well now, we feel it will benefit from cellaring for several years. Try one now and tuck a few away for later. We think you’ll be glad you did. This wine sells for $30 a bottle.

As spring reminds us of new beginnings, we have a new beginning of our own to announce. We will be moving to a brand new state-of-the-art winery facility in Napa Valley for the 2008 harvest. We are constantly looking for ways we can continue to improve and gain more control. This move gives us the opportunity to implement some new wine-making techniques that we feel will result in better quality wines. We look forward to hosting many of you as we will begin doing wine tasting and barrel tasting by appointment in the very near future.

For those of you in the Bay Area or those of you who want to visit, we will be having our Second Annual Rose Release Party on June 7. We will again host this party at our house in Danville and invite you and your family to come taste our new 2007 Muse Rose as well as some barrel samples of the 2007 wines we have not yet bottled. Our 2007 red wines are safely tucked away in barrel showing what we feel may be our finest vintage to date.

If you would like to order these new wines or any of our wines, an order form is attached. Please either scan or fax it back to us or stick it in the mail. You can also just respond to this email if that's easier for you. As always, you can find out what our current releases are by visiting our website at www.odiseawineco.com where you can also sign up to be a Journey Member - our version of the wine club.

We look forward to sharing these wines with you. Thank you all for your continued support in helping us realize our dreams and continuing our Journey.

Adam, Tammy, Mike and Kristin