Temecula Hills Winery

The production facility for Oak Mountain Winery.

The Temecula Hills Mourvedre is a great example of this grape, full of blackberry, and dried herbs, with good oak finish. Eds Red is also a big winner, a blend of several grapes, that is very fruit foward, but with a lot of guts, and a smooth long finish. Keep up the good work.!! The winery is a
fun place to visit, along with your other winery Oak Mountain.

At Oak Mountain you can taste wines from both Oak Mountain Winery and its «sister» winery, Temecula Hills. I think they’re owned and run by the same people so I’m not sure where the difference lies, but whatever. The owner, who gave my group a little tour and hung around to answer questions about the wines, was very nice, and it was interesting to get to hear a lot about the winemaking process. The tasting room is pretty small, but the quiet ambiance is a welcome break from the crowds and craziness at some of the larger wineries. I really wanted to like this place more, but the wines were pretty bad. Being one of the newest wineries in Temecula, I just don’t think the grapes are ready yet, but they (and by «they» I also mean Temecula wineries in general, not just Oak Mountain) keep making wine anyway to meet the overwhelming demand. The complaints I had about the wines here were largely the same as at most of the wineries we visited: too-​sweet whites, what the fuck is up with this «white Merlot»?, and weak reds. Between the two of us my boyfriend and I tasted just about every wine both Oak Mountain and Temecula Hills had to offer, and the only one we really liked was the 2003 Temecula Hills «Tenacious,» a blend of 80% Grenache, 14% Syrah and 6% Mourvedre. As for the rest of them, I’d wait at least another 5 or 10 years before giving them another try.