Emmitt-Scorsone Wines

Visit our winery and garden on the Russian River in Healdsburg, Sonoma County, California Emmitt-Scorsone Wines is a partnership between winemakers Palmer Emmitt and Michael Scorsone. At our small artisan winery in Healdsburg, passion for making great wines is the singular motivating force. We bottle wines under two labels – Judge Palmer and Domenica Amato – each expressing different interests of

ours within the world of wine and honoring members of our respective families. We firmly believe that the best wines are grown not made – our inspiration for each wine begins in the vineyard. Several of our wines are estate-grown and we source additional fruit from growers that share our long-term commitment to quality and sustainable winegrowing. All of our wines across both labels are fermented spontaneously with wild yeast and though we don’t adhere strictly to any winemaking doctrine, we strive to make wines that are as natural as possible. For most of our wines the ingredient list would be simply grapes and sulfur, of which we use the minimum amount necessary for healthy fermentations and stable aging. Many of our wines are unfined and unfiltered. As part of our constant exploration of both old and new methods to make unique and distinctive wines, we ferment and/or age some of our wines in clay amphorae and concrete egg, and sometimes utilize varying degrees of skin contact in the production of white wines.