http://www.mankashills.com/blog The Mankas Hills Vineyards Blog Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:03:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We're happy to announce that in the latest 2010 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition, Mankas Hills Vineyards won two Gold Medals for our Cabernet Sauvignon. The competition had a world-record breaking 4913 entries judged by 63 professional wine experts. The first gold was for our premier 2006 Contado Mankas Cabernet Sauvignon. ... http://www.mankashills.com/blog/?p=31 As the web continues to evolve, online communities that were once defined by blogs, comments, RSS feeds, and so on have now turned to Facebook and Twitter as easier, and more full featured mechanisms to exchange information quickly. These systems allow you to easily share what you like most with ... http://www.mankashills.com/blog/?p=29 As we begin 2010, all of us here at Mankas Hills Vineyards would like to wish you a Happy New Year and hope that everyone had a good beginning of the year. This past year was a relatively good one for us considering the slow down in the economy. The continued ... http://www.mankashills.com/blog/?p=30 For the 5th consecutive year the month of September has been declared California Wine Month. We are proud to be part of the more than 2000 wineries that produce wine in California. We are taking this opportunity to have a big yearly sale of cases of all our wines. You will ... http://www.mankashills.com/blog/?p=27 We haven't had a chance to blog very much lately. Since our last entry we've released some of our 2006 and 2007 wines and more will come later this year. Our latest wines are the following: 2007 Mankas Crest Dry Rose’  2007 Piola Cabernet Sauvignon 2006 Mankas Cabernet Sauvignon 2006 Amelie Cabernet Sauvignon - Merlot Some of ... http://www.mankashills.com/blog/?p=26 We're proud to announce the launch of the Mankas Hills Vineyards Wine Club. After quite a bit of thought on how best to set it up for our customers and after going through various iterations, we finally launched it late in August. Our Wine Club is fairly simple and it leaves ... http://www.mankashills.com/blog/?p=24 If you've been watching our site closely these last few months we've added yet more awards to our already long list of accolades won by Mankas Hills Vineyards wines. In the recent 2008 Riverside International Wine Competition, the 2005 Contado Mankas Cabernet Sauvignon won a Silver Medal. This was among more ... http://www.mankashills.com/blog/?p=21 Just a quick note to let everyone know that we've done some restructuring of our sampler cases. As those of you familiar with our site know, our samplers are a great way to try out our wines. They group together certain wines at a nice discount so that you get ... http://www.mankashills.com/blog/?p=22 As the holiday season draws to a close we would like to once again thank all our customers and friends for making 2007 a success. 2007 was a busy year for Mankas Hills Vineyards. We once again significantly increased our customers and sales figures. At the same time we've been doing some ... http://www.mankashills.com/blog/?p=20 We haven't had a chance to blog for a while as we've all been busy getting our 2005s ready for release. In the meantime though we've managed to develop a nice little "Virtual" Vineyard Tour for all of you to better see our vineyard, people, and events. We love to take ... http://www.mankashills.com/blog/?p=19