Our goal as winemakers is to give expression to the beautiful fruit
we grow by producing wines of originality and personality.
We nurture the distinctive character of our wines by being obsessive over each detail in the winemaking process. Our state-of-the-art winery, which we constructed in 2013, provides our winemaking team with the world-class tools they deserve.
Vintages differ from one year to the next, so our work does not follow a formula. Each grape variety and each wine are given individual attention throughout their journey, beginning with the delivery of fresh grapes to the winery by our vineyard crew, and continuing through the critical stages of fermentation, aging, blending, and bottling.
Examples of techniques that we employ to elevate quality include hand sorting of grapes, precise fermentation temperature control, extended French oak maturation of red wines, aging of white wines on the yeast lees, and many other steps critical to the transformation of fresh grapes into fine wine.
Head winemaker, Jose Real, produces award-winning wines at Boordy.
Winemaker Jose Real Figueroa is a third-generation oenologist hailing from the birthplace of sherry, Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. He has more than 20 years of experience in the wine industry, beginning in his family-owned oenological laboratory, Laboratorios M. Real. His formal training was enriched by the intergenerational transfer of knowledge gained from working with his father and grandfather in their laboratory.
Jose joined Boordy Vineyards In 2011, and over the ensuing years emerged a leader in elevating the quality and sophistication of Boordy’s wine collection. In 2023, Jose was promoted to the position of head winemaker. Jose’s passion is to capture the soul of our vineyards in each bottle of wine.
Steve Blais, an independent consulting enologist, provides a global perspective on our work, particularly in the art of blending. Steve spent two decades with the consulting firm of Michele Rolland in Bordeaux and now resides in California.
