Try the Cinsault Rose and the Alicante Buchette(sp?). Good discounts if you join wine club. Tasting room is a little hard to find but worth it.
We have been to this tasting room 5 or 6 times and I get excited every time we are going back. We have been to every tasting room in Murphys (as of Nov 2011 that is, it seems there's a new one every month or so) and this is one of if not the best. The room is down stairs in a rustic cellar setting, the pourers have always been fun and non pretentious, and the wine has always been incredible. When you go be sure to try the Quinn the Eskimo desert wine - one of the best I've ever had. I think they may have started charing 3 to 5 $ to taste, but its waived with a purchase.
Even though this tasting room is tucked away under a building and off of Main street, it's one of the busiest. They are consistent with their Zinfandel but they have one called "Sewell", named after the owner. EXCELLENT full bodied red. Tasty with a great finish. Start with Hatcher first to set the benchmark high.
We spend a fair amount of time in Big Trees and had been frequenting the Murphy's wineries, but when we discovered Hatcher, it was like all other wine was just blown away. We love big reds, and there is just something special with the Hatcher wine that I can't adequately describe here, but it's a unique taste and depth. Frankly I have no idea why the finest steak establishments in the country would not be serving Hatcher wines front and center. Needless to say, we are now wine club members, and every single time we go to pick up a shipment, we have a taste and end up purchasing even more wines. Sewell and Matt do a wonderful job, this is low key, the tasting room is in a nice cool, very tastefully decorated "cellar" (where well behaved dogs are welcome too!) and it's always treat going to taste the latest & greatest. We were talking with Sewell a couple of weeks back when we dropped by, and his comment was that he doesn't sell the wine because it sells itself; I could not agree more. We also attend the wine club parties, which are excellent. I highly recommend Hatcher wines, I honestly don't think you will find better if you're a red fan. The town of Murphy's is such a great little place to spend some time as well. Totally worth the visit - just bring a designated driver :)
The setting is a cave, and it has the ambiance of gold mining Murphy's rough and ready..The wine is excellent, and the servers are fun and very proud, which makes us proud to be in the wine club and brag.
We stopped in to the Hatcher Winery tasting room in Murphys to pick up a shipment. While there, we tasted several of their wines; didn't find one we didn't like. Since we are not generally white/rose drinkers, the young lady running the place for the afternoon gladly let us exchange for wines we wanted.
Loved the tasting room. The staff were very attentive, despite us being there the same time as a bachelorette party. We are serious red wine drinkers and their wines were AMAZING!. We ended up liking them so much, we bought bottles that they didn't even offer at the tasting (and when we finally drank them, loved them too and wished we had bought more). If you love red wine, you'll love Hatcher.
we sat down to enjoy a glassof wine on the paito before heading to a concert at Ironstone. even thougth they were out of my favioret wine my second choice was great as well.
Hatcher wines were highly recommended by another vineyard, so eight of us stopped by enroute to dinner to buy a couple of bottles to drink with our meal in the Murphys Hotel. It was the best tasting we encountered the entire week. One of the owners was present and gave us a 45 minute detailed explaination of his wines along with the samples. He even let us try a meritage not usually available, after a little encouragement. Needless to say, we enjoyed it so much that we made his day by purchasing 2 cases between us. In Murphys, you only pay a very reasonable corkage fee in restaurants when bringing in locally purchased/produced wine, so it's a wonderful way to enjoy regional wines that are generally not available.
Visited here during a busy Labor Day Weekend and truly enjoyed the ambiance of the wine cellar and most of the wines (mostly red) served. All of the wines tasted (including whites) were of high quality and pleasant to drink. While the service was attentive and efficient, the male server was rather abrupt and seemed to be more interested in hurrying the tastings and subsequent sales than in providing true "service to customers".