Consilience Wines Consilience Wines Consilience Wines is a family-owned winery located in Los Olivos California and was established in 1994. Consilience Wines is based in Los Olivos in the Santa Ynez Valley, Santa Barbara County. The company specializes in Rhône, Syrah, Grenache, Roussanne, Viognier, Mourvèdre, Grenache Blanc and Petite Sirah. Other wines produced comprise Cabernet Sauvignon and the California grape, Zinfandel. The winery houses a second label, Tre Anelli, specializing in Italian and Spanish varieties, including Sangiovese, Tempranillo and Verdelho. Consilience Wines was founded in 1994, when Brett Escalera and Tom Daughters joined together to create wines from Santa Barbara-county grapes in
Durif not be consigned to jug wine when he blended small portions into his reserve Cabernet Sauvignon. Since 2002 Assaf Paz enologist and co-owner at Vitkin Winery is consistently producing a single-varietal Petite Sirah as a high end wine sourced from the oldest Petite Sirah vineyard in Israel. Seeing that Israeli "terroir" could grow great Petite Sirah, wineries such as Lewis Pasco the founding winemaker at Recanati followed suit with a Petite Sirah/Zinfandel blend, while others like Sea Horse, Carmel and Tishbi have made single-varietal Petite Sirah in addition to using it for blending. Petite Sirah is sometimes mistakenly spelled "Petite