Malm Cellars started its first vintage with the Cross Blend winning a gold medal in the most competitive of competitions. Now, five years later the focus is still on the fruit and the medals come later.

Selecting small hillside vineyards allows us to physically be involved with the entire growing process. The results are hand picked, fermented, and then aged in French, Hungarian, and American oak barrels.

Brendan and Amanda Malm are bringing in some of the best Syrah and Pinot Noir that Sonoma County has to offer. So please enjoy their limited production.









In 1992, Brown made 10 barrels of Grenache at Etude and is at ease describing it as spectacular. Just starting out, he picked the fruit overripe, which he later learned is what you probably should do with Grenache. Without a lot of money to invest, he used but one new oak barrel that first year, what he calls another “great decision by accident.” To this day, he prefers to use no new oak, aging the wine in older barrels for less than a year before bottling.

His second year he picked up some Syrah from the Duarte Vineyard in Contra Costa and later some Zinfandel from Napa Valley’s Brown Estate (no relation) and Cabernet from Monte Rosso, a Sonoma County vineyard he likens to the holy grail. From the beginning, he has hand-delivered his wines to retail accounts across Northern California. Coming up on his 14th vintage, he and his wines are such a hit that every retailer that buys from him buys every single type of wine that he makes.

And he finds joy in all of them, even the mistakes. It’s his goal to get the happiness that he feels in the vineyard into the bottle for consumers to see and taste.

This is quintessential Greg Brown: passionate, soulful, spiritual in every good sense of that word, ever searching for the brighter side of life.

Outside of their family, Barry and Carol Waitte have two passions — wine and horses. The moniker Tamber Bey, created by Carol, combines the names of the first Arabian performance horses that the couple owned and raced — Tamborina and Bayamo, affectionately known as Tamber and Bay. At present Tamber has retired to a farm outside of Auburn, but Bay is still an active member of the Waitte herd, and is often seen being ridden around the vineyards of Yountville (along with his buddies Sammy, Streak, Cambridge and Omni).

In the fall of 2003, the Waittes premiered the Tamber Bey label with a very limited production of 2001 Chardonnay, Merlot, and a Bordeaux blend Red Wine from their Two Rivers Vineyard. Within weeks, the majority of the 150 cases were delivered to a select list of friends and family, and the entire inventory was gone by the end of the year.

Last year’s fall release of the Two Rivers 2002 vintage, followed by the inaugural release of the 2002 Tamber Bey Estate Cabernet in April, ’05, were also early “sell outs”. This continued enthusiastic reception and the yearly increase in production resulted in an expansion of our distribution to include exclusive retail wine shops and restaurants, and new distribution in the states of New York, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana and Nevada.