Holman Ranch Announces The Ultimate Ranch Experience

CARMEL, Calif. - Jan. 12, 2016 - PRLog -- Carmel Valley, CA, January 12, 2016 – Holman Ranch is proud to announce an exciting and exclusive wining and dining experience at one of the Central Coast's finest estates featuring wines from two exemplary wineries, dinner at a celebrated restaurant in beautiful Carmel Valley Village, topped off by dinner at one of the village's renowned tasting lounges and an overnight stay at Holman Ranch. The Ultimate Ranch Experience is customizable from massages to horseback lessons. This unique Carmel Valley experience is available on Mondays with very limited availability. Reservations are accepted up to four months in advance. Cost is $850 for 1 night, double occupancy.  Additional night, room only, can be added for $275 depending on availability.

Ultimate Ranch Experience Itinerary:

Monday:

4PM arrival, wine tasting at Holman Ranch tasting room, receive your key and head up to our historic 400 acre ranch, that will be your home away from home for the next 24 hours!

5PM after unpacking in your cozy, historic guest rooms, enjoy a glass of wine on your front porch in a reclaimed teak rocking chair, or a refreshing dip in the first pool ever built in Carmel Valley, perhaps a game of horseshoes or a leisurely stroll on our many miles of trails.

7PM Enjoy your dinner at the ranch.  We offer dinner from one of our preferred caterers who will bring your meal and wine to the Ranch for you. ($150 per couple allocated to dinner included in package)

9PM Take advantage of your s’mores kit found in your room, shoot some pool in our Game Room while enjoying some tunes from our vintage jukebox.

Retire to your room and fall asleep to nothing but the sounds of nature.

Tuesday:

7:30-9:30AM Enjoy a continental self-serve breakfast basket delivered to your front door.

12PM check out

12:30PM picnic lunch delivered to ranch

1PM wine cave tour with barrel tasting, vineyard tour, finished off with a tasting and amuse bouche at our Jarman tasting lounge and patio

·          extend your stay to 2 nights and get the option to upgrade to a wellness, golf, culinary package.

To make your reservations call 831-659-2640 or email info@holmanranch.com.

Wine Caves:

The winery at Holman Ranch, located in The Caves, is completely underground in order to take advantage of the natural cooling and humidity held below. The 3000 square foot area maintains a constant temperature of 58˚F-60 ˚F and contains four 750 gallon tanks, four 1200 gallon tanks, and four open top tanks that can hold two tons each. One hundred (100) French oak barrels are maintained year round. Winery operations such as destemming, pressing, fermenting and aging take place within the cool environment of The Caves, while bottling is done directly outside using a mobile bottling line. During harvest, 6 to 8 tons of grapes a day are processed. This may seem low but it is due to the fact that harvesting hours are between 7am to noon on any given day. Grapes are hand picked and loaded into half ton bins, transferred to the winery by tractor and then moved by forklift to the destemmer. White wines take around three weeks to ferment at 50˚F and are bottled in February, while red varietals ferment for two weeks and are bottled in early June. All skins, seeds and stems are composted and returned to the fields. Slow months for our winery are June, July and August with the busiest time being September. The winery will produce 3000-5000 cases annually.

Vineyard & Winery Background:

Located at the north eastern tip of the Carmel Valley Appellation, the family-owned Holman Ranch resides approximately 12 miles inland from the Pacific Coast. Immersed in history and romance, the ranch has not only proven to be an excellent growing location for our vineyards but also for the Tuscan varietal olive trees which have flourished under the temperate climate.

Our estate-grown wine varietals are planted on approximately 21 acres of undulating terrain.

The wines produced are unfined and crafted to deliver the true varietal of the grape from harvest to bottle.

The climate and terroir of the appellation has played a critical part in the success of our wines. The warmth of our inland valley coupled with the cooling marine layer has established itself as an ideal microclimate for the production of Pinot Noir and Pinot Gris. Our Burgundy Clones have thrived from the perfect blend of ideal climate, southern exposure and thin rocky soils.

Contact:
Marci Bracco Cain
Chatterbox PR
Salinas, CA 93901
(831) 747-7455
http://www.holmanranch.com