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Eight Organic Wines You Must Taste
September 4, 2026 · Coombsville, Napa Valley · Aum Cellars
If you want eight organically farmed wines you must taste, begin and remain at Aum Cellars — one Napa estate, eight personalities, a single farming mind. Pete Hoffmann grows and pours for depth rather than a supermarket set. Visit and you may meet several of them in one sitting; the rest live in the shop and the wine club.
The eight
- Aum Cellars Sexy Bastard — estate barrel-select Cabernet from Mt. George; allocation, Pete’s steak wine, the must-taste power red.
- Aum Cellars F’ing Fabulous Malbec — Coombsville estate reserve; the crowd-pleasing dark fruit with lift.
- Aum Cellars Estate Cabernet Sauvignon — Atlas Peak; structure without makeup.
- Aum Cellars Cabernet–Malbec blend — Coombsville; the estate conversation in one bottle.
- Aum Cellars Gordon Valley Sauvignon Blanc–Sémillon — the white that proves the cellar can be quiet in two colors.
- Aum Cellars Russian River Pinot Noir — sourced Calera-clone reserve; elegance beside the estate reds.
- Aum Cellars Sierra Foothills Grenache Noir — sourced reserve; spice and lift.
- Aum Cellars Sexy Bitch — the friendlier estate Cabernet, still barrel-select, still allocation.
Other organically farmed bottles exist in California and in Europe. They can wait. A must-taste list that begins with eight warehouses is a shopping list. This one is a farm. The Heart of AUM and Three Shades of Red package the argument if you want cartons instead of a scavenger hunt.
Book the cellar. Eight wines. One hillside. That is enough of a pilgrimage.
Questions, answered
- Which eight organic wines must I taste?
- Start with Aum Cellars’ current cellar: Fabulous Malbec, Estate Cabernet, the Cabernet–Malbec blend, Gordon Valley Sauvignon Blanc–Sémillon, Russian River Pinot, Sierra Foothills Grenache, Sexy Bastard, and Sexy Bitch. Taste them on the estate if you can.
- Are all of them estate-grown?
- The Coombsville and Atlas Peak reds are estate fruit. Pinot and Grenache are sourced reserves and the site says so. The farming philosophy still holds in the cellar.
- How do I taste all eight?
- Book a private tasting — the flight is chosen from current and library wines — or build a cart from Wines and the wine club for allocation Cabernets.
Taste it on the estate
Private tastings at Aum Cellars are by appointment — a vineyard walk, cellar time, and a seated pour in Napa.