When you need a wine tasting experience that keeps things deliciously simple, think basics: like bread and butter basics. Life is already too complicated. Does wine have to be as well? The answer is no. Introducing Bread & Butter, and their new tasting room on the Silverado Trail, where award-winning winemaker, Linda Trotta, crafts limited-release Napa Valley wines made to be … delicious, honest, and uncomplicated. It’s an oasis for those looking to have a good time without pretense, judgment or ritual. Shouldn’t wine just be fun?

Bread & Butter wines stem from the belief that a good wine is a wine you like.

While some wines are purposefully built for deep introspection, like a tome on existential philosophy, Bread & Butter wines are more like summer beach reading. That’s a guilty pleasure most of us can sign up for, gladly.  
When you visit the relaxed and serene Bread & Butter wine tasting room designed by C. Walters Design of San Francisco, famous for blending cozy comfort with effortless style, you’ll switch instantly to vacation mode. Sit at the sleek bar, at a cozy table in one of several small private rooms, or camp outside on the deck, overlooking the vineyards. It’s up to you. It’s an oasis for those looking to have a good time without pretense, judgement or ritual. Shouldn’t wine just be fun?
Whether you decide to sip on the bold and fruity 2018 Napa Valley Red Blend that combines berry ripe Cabernet Sauvignon with the smooth operator, Petite Sirah, or the binge-worthy 2018 Napa Valley Merlot, with its plush tannins and captivating fruit, Bread & Butter wines are created for pure, uncluttered enjoyment.
Tasting options include the Napa Valley Flight ($40), which is designed for those whose favorite colors are white, red and pink. This journey to tastebud bliss includes the lemon zesty and tropically tropical Sauvignon Blanc and smooth Chardonnay, plus a page-turning Pinot Noir. For those who love reds, the Napa Valley Red Flight ($50), explores handsomely crafted blends and varietals, while the premium Napa Valley Cabernet Flight ($75) satisfies those with a taste for the unmistakably bold allure of premium Napa Cabernet Sauvignon.
All Bread & Butter Napa Valley wines are made in limited quantities, at crazy good prices and available only at the Silverado Trail tasting room. When you’re looking to avoid the chaos of too many expensive and stress-inducing choices, start with a visit to Bread & Butter. Take home your favorites and whenever you need to return to the simple pleasures in life, just open a bottle and pour.

Find the Bread & Butter Tasting Room at 3105 Silverado Trail, Napa, open daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For reservations, call 833-332-7323.

The Wines

The 2019 Bread & Butter Napa Valley Sauvignon Blanc is from a vineyard site in St. Helena near the Napa River. The wine is pale to medium gold in color, and displays aromas of fresh cut grass, hints of honeysuckle and citrus blossom. Flavors include pear, apple and minerality, with a supple texture and a bright finish that is not tart.
The 2019 Bread & Butter Napa Valley Chardonnay goes through full malolactic fermentation and is aged in some new French oak. Medium golden in color, offers aromas of honeycomb, butter, crème brulée, baked apple and dried hay. Offers plenty of layers on the palate including flavors of Golden Delicious apple, mango and a lingering vanilla sweetness on the finish.
The 2019 Bread & Butter Carneros District Pinot Noir is medium ruby in color, offering darker aromatics, including cherry and various berry fruits along with a hint of raspberry jam and chocolate. Very balanced and rounded across the palate with finer grained, darker tannins, it delivers flavors of red cherry and plum.
The 2018 Bread & Butter Napa Valley Petite Sirah is dark ruby with purplish tinges on the rim; the bouquet is all about dark fruits, including boysenberry and blackberry, along with cedar incense. Flavors, including dark cherry and plum, are complemented by juicy mouthwatering acidity. Sometimes the texture of 100% Petite Sirah wines dominates the finish: not so with this wine. Rather, while there is a noticeable density of tannins, they are well integrated, with a dusty, gravelly texture.
The 2018 Bread & Butter Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon (Wine Spectator, 91pts) is from fruit sourced from the valley floor in Rutherford as well as hillsides on both Atlas Peak and Howell Mountain. Dark ruby in color, its varietal character is immediately obvious, unlike the riper offerings so commonly crafted from this variety in the Napa Valley. Aromas of fine cigar wrapper, leather and darker fruits including plum and cherry, are complemented by savory notes. Juicy on the palate, the wine has a touch of savoriness on the finish with some darker spice notes and cedar. The tannins are light, still a bit tight but are fairly integrated.

Details

For more information, to purchase wines, to schedule a tasting or to join one of three tiers in the wine club (4, 6 or 12 bottle shipments),and to stay posted regarding winery updates, visit www.breadandbutterwines.com. When referencing Bread & Butter on social media, use: #mybreadandbutter.