About
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Behind The Wine
Our wines are sourced and produced from grapes harvested from single low-yield vineyards that are family run which specialize in unique varietals from Sonoma and Mendocino counties. The climate and landscape of these regions provide a balance of character and quality which maximizes the intensity of the fruit promoting a finely structured well rounded wine.
We produce less than 500 cases per year which allows us to dedicate a handcrafted approach to every detail of the wine making process. During the harvest our grapes are hand picked/sorted when the fruit is perfectly ripe and we strive for Native Fermentation using a cold soak then barrel aged process that intensifies the flavor and color of the wine.
GARRET TORGERSON + TIM RADUENZ | proprietors
Twelve Eleven was founded in 2015 by Garret Torgerson and Tim Raduenz. They are both originally from Wisconsin, but met in San Francisco in 2007 and their mutual love for wine became the foundation for creating Twelve Eleven. Twelve Eleven is the address of the apartment they both resided at in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood in San Francisco.
Tim resides in Park City, UT with his family and is principal of Form + One Design.
Garret still calls San Francisco home, running double-duty with California Epoxy Flooring and overseeing the Twelve Eleven operations.
LIZ WUESTHOFF | partner & gm
Liz hails from the suburbs of Milwaukee, but spent the last decade + on the West Coast. During her time in San Francisco, Liz connected with our renegade wine cowboys and started working the San Francisco wine tastings along side Tim and Garret on the weekends. Liz is excited to be back in Wisco and take up residency in Northern Door.
Our Partners
Wait Cellars was founded in 2005 by Bob Wait, a local to San Francisco’s Lower Haight neighborhood and owner of The Page on Divisadero Street in San Francisco. Dumbfounded by the physical beauty of California’s north coast upon arrival from Michigan in 1988, Wait Cellars in some ways represents a way to connect with and consummate an understanding of this unique and gorgeous land.
Our carefully selected fruit, and our relationships with our growers, are at the heart of our wines. We work with small growers and value long-term relationships. We are particularly drawn to the many expressions of Sonoma County, from the cool, windy, fog-bound areas of the Petaluma Gap, Sebastopol Hills, Green Valley, and Sonoma Coast AVAs, to the relatively warmer temperatures and rich soils of the Russian River valley south west of Healdsburg.
Fallon Place is a project by winemaker and proprietor Cory Michal dedicated to the small scale creation of single vineyard designate wines from unique sustainably and organically farmed vineyards in Sonoma County. Cory has studied viticulture and enology at UC Davis and Université de Bourgogne, in addition to working for top wineries in Northern California. The wines are produced naturally utilizing the highest quality fruit, minimal intervention winemaking techniques and native fermentations. The wines are meant to reflect the purity of their vineyard terroir for the vintage, offering a snapshot of time and place. The wines are produced first and foremost for our wine allocation club members and can also be found in fine restaurants and wine shops across California.