Green Frog

Drinking Green can be a lot of fun. No, I don’t mean exclusively drinking Vinho Verde.

By fun, I mean drinking wine that you know something special is going on. Take this great wine for example: Frog’s Leap 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon.

Besides being a delicious, can’t wait to have more, bottle of wine, there’s another side to this bottle. The outside. If the inside is the juice you quoff, the outside is the winery which equals the business, the environment and the people that make the inside possible.

Here’s the outside scoop on Frog's Leap and why they are one of my favorite brands (both inside and out).

Frog’s Leap is an organic winery in Napa, CA. I had the pleasure of visiting the winery years ago. I grabbed a bottle of Chardonnay on a beautiful summer day and hung out in the hammock with friends. The gardens were beautiful and with the help of friends and butterflies, it quickly became an exquisite day. Although moved by so many variables, I still wanted to learn about the winery.

Frog’s Leap is not organic to be trendy. They believe in health and sustainable farming as the mechanism for ensuring a healthy environment. Their mantra is Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Renew, Retain and Revere.

Organic and Biodynamic Farming methods are not only used in the vineyards but flow into the gardens. Everything you see is buzzing with the life of the season. The true life of Frog’s Leap is exactly where it is at that moment, surrounded in the harmony of nature.