Founded on a MBA business plan, X Winery & Amicus Cellars creates exceptional wines of outstanding consumer value. The winery does this with trailblazing production methods, inventive sustainable practices and creative sales techniques. Comprised of a dedicated team of eight professionals who use their creativity to redefine what it means to make fine wine.
The philosophy of X Winery is to produce wines that retail in the super-premium price category of $10-$25 per bottle with a quality consistently better than the category’s competition. The brand was created to fill a niche that the winery identified as an underserved market.
The winery utilizes new technologies along with traditional winemaking to produce wines that have the texture and traditional flavor profile of wines that normally cost two to three times the price.
AMICUS CELLARS
Amicus Cellars handcrafts only Napa Valley Bordeaux based wines. Each year, the winemaking begins with carefully planned viticulture practices in all four of our vineyards in Howell Mountain, Spring Mountain, St. Helena, and Yountville. The goal is to achieve a small berry size so the skin to juice ratio remains high. This leads to wines that have more flavors and are richly extracted.
In the winery, we carefully sort and gently crush these grapes into a wide range of fermenters. Maceration programs change depending on the season, and how the wine is behaving. Post fermentation, malolactic fermentation occurs in carefully selected French oak barrels from the Never, Allier and Limousin forests. After 18 to 26 months (depending on the vintage and barrel selection), the wine is taken from the barrels and bottled.
