Signorello Estate
2024 Cabernet Sauvignon
"Renaissance"
Napa Valley AVA
Auction 30 | Lot No. 52
Vintage: 2024
Signorello Estate
Cabernet Sauvignon
Napa Valley
5 cases produced
Description
Indulge in the rare privilege of Renaissance, a 2024 Cabernet Sauvignon drawn from a single, exceptional barrel of 100% estate fruit. Sourced from the estate’s oldest Cabernet blocks and planted in 1990, this wine reflects 35 years of vine wisdom and a site shaped by volcanic soils and dual exposures. Guided by the renowned trio of consulting winemaker Celia Welch, viticulturalist Steve Matthiasson, and winemaker Michael Costley, it undergoes native fermentation and 22 months in French oak before being bottled unfined and unfiltered. Renaissance offers an unrepeatable, profoundly pure expression of Napa Valley’s eastern benchland terroir.
Wine Facts
- Wine is unfiltered
- Single vineyard wine
- Sustainably produced
- Organically produced (also commonly called "organically grown")
- Wine is 100% estate grown and bottled
Michael Costley
Winemaker, Signorello Estate
Michael joined the team when the winery opened in 2024. He has been crafting wines in the Napa Valley for the last decade. He will continue to build upon the foundation that was built at Signorello over the past 40 years. With a focus on attention to detail in the vineyard and winery, Michael will help create the purest expression of each block farmed at Signorello to make the best wine each vintage.
Michael’s previous winemaking experiences include Gandona Estate on Pritchard Hill, where he worked with Graeme McDonald and Far Niente in Oakville. The early part of Costley’s career in Napa was as Viticulturist at Merryvale, where he farmed Bordeaux varietals at their hillside St. Helena estate. He holds a B.S. in Enology from California State University, Fresno, and a B.S. in Plant Science from the University of Missouri.
Country born: United States
Education: Certificate in Special Studies in Enology from California State University-Fresno.
Years in the wine industry: 15-20 years
Winemaking Philosophy:
The wine is made in the vineyard. Letting the site and vintage express itself with intention.
Celia Welch
Winemaker, Signorello Estate
Celia brings a vast wealth of talent and knowledge and has been key in the creation of some of Napa Valley’s marquee wines. Celia Welch has been a winemaker for more than 30 years, after earning a B.S. degree in Fermentation Science from the University of California, Davis in 1982.
Her first interaction with grapes was under the huge oak tree in her backyard in Southern Oregon, where she and her siblings picked grape berries from stems for their father, an avid wine collector and home winemaker. Her parents also included the children on trips through Napa and Sonoma in the early 1960s, and, like most visitors, she was entranced with the beauty of the rolling vineyards.
Celia has been honored as Winemaker of the Year 2008 by Food & Wine Magazine, as one of Forbes.com’s “Top Ten Tastemakers of 2006," and with the Women for Winesense Rising Star Award from the Southern California chapter of this group; the national chapter of Women for Winesense inducted her into its Winemaker’s Hall of Fame as well.
Country born: United States
Years in the wine industry: 20-30 years
Steve Matthiasson
Winemaker, Signorello Estate
Steve Matthiasson is a revered Napa Valley-based winemaker, viticulturalist and organic farmer dedicated to crafting classically balanced, delicious wines that speak truthfully to their upbringing.
Steve, a six-time James Beard Award nominee, has advised some of Napa’s most esteemed vineyards, including Araujo, Dalla Valle Vineyards and Spottswoode Estate Vineyard & Winery.
Steve dreamt of farming his entire life. He became an obsessed gardener, cook, and homebrewer while studying philosophy in college. In 1994 Steve began working for a small sustainable agriculture consulting firm overseeeing vineyards and orchards and in 1999 he co-authored the California manual on sustainable vineyard practices.
Country born: United States
Years in the wine industry: 20-30 years
Ray Signorello
Winemaker, Signorello Estate
One of the wine industry's young mavericks, Ray Signorello is a true wine entrepreneur. He is the Proprietor at his own Signorello Estate in Napa Valley; founder of Edge, Fuse, S and Trim Wines, Napa Valley and wine distributor in Canada through his Evolution Fine Wines venture. Ray's commitment to the best quality grapes and labor-intensive vineyard and winemaking practices are core principles that permeate all of his endeavors.
Born in San Francisco, Ray moved to Vancouver at a very young age where his father worked in the natural resource sector. His parents longed for California and in 1977 purchased some property on the Silverado Trail in Napa, now known as Signorello Estate. The property, formerly a racehorse retirement home, was virgin to grapes until Ray's father began to plant Chardonnay vineyards in 1980. The Signorello's were soon in the wine business selling their grapes to Caymus, Cakebread, Silverado and Cuvaison. After a few years, the Signorello family decided it was time to make their own wines (1985) since the quality of their grapes were among Napa's finest.
After graduating from University of British Columbia in 1988, Ray moved to Napa and dedicated himself to wine education and managing the winery operations.
Country born: United States
Years in the wine industry: 30+ years
Winemaking Philosophy:
producing handcrafted elegant wines with potential for improving in the bottle over many years
Winery Distribution
Signorello Estate is distributed in the following markets. Please contact the winery directly for the most up-to-date distribution information and to explore commercial opportunities.
Domestic:
- Alabama (International Wines)
- Arizona (Breakthru Beverage)
- California (Serendipity Wines)
- Colorado (Breakthru Beverage)
- Delaware (Constantine Wines)
- District of Columbia (Constantine Wines)
- Florida (Terroir Selections)
- Georgia (National Distributing Co)
- Idaho (Southern Glazers)
- Illinois (Acme Wine Company)
- Iowa (Okoboji Wines)
- Kansas (Standard Beverage Co.)
- Kentucky (Heidelberg Distributing)
- Louisiana (Artisan Fine Wines)
- Maryland (Constantine Wines)
- Massachusetts (Sothern Glazers)
- Michigan (Veritas Distributors)
- Mississippi (International Wines)
- Missouri (Classique Wines)
- Montana (Winegardner's Wines)
- Nebraska (Anchor Beverage)
- Nevada (Breakthru Beverage)
- New Hampshire (Southern Glazers of NH)
- New Jersey (Pas Mal Selections)
- New York (Pas Mal Selections)
- North Carolina (Johnson Bros/Oxford Street Merchants)
- Ohio (Heidelberg Distributing)
- Oklahoma (Armada Distributing)
- Rhode Island (Southern Glazers)
- South Dakota (Okoboji Wines)
- Tennessee (Knoxville Beverage)
- Tennessee (Ajax Turner)
- Texas (Serendipity Wines)
- Utah (Southern Glazers)
- Virginia (Virginia Imports)
- Virginia (Z Wine Guy)
- Washington (The Odom Corporation)
- West Virginia (Wine & Beverage Merchants)
- Wisconsin (Capitol-Husting Liquor & Wine Co.)
- Wyoming (Southern Glazers)
International:
- Canada - Alberta (Evolution Fine Wines Ltd.)
- Canada - British Columbia (Evolution Fine Wines Ltd.)
- Canada - Manitoba (Evolution Fine Wines Ltd.)
- Canada - Ontario (Profile)
- Canada - Quebec (Tocade)
- Canada - Saskatchewan (Evolution Fine Wines Ltd.)
- Japan (Nakagawa)
- Philippines (https://artisan.com.ph/)
- South Korea (LUVINCOREA CO., LTD.)