Accolades and Awards for our 2004 vintage
Awards for 2004's.pdf

The California wine community’s best kept secret.
Best Kept Secret 2005.pdf

UC Davis College of Agricultural & Environmental Science Article
CarolSheltonFall2005_CAES.pdf

Wine Specatator Online Article:
New Wines, New Faces: Carol Shelton
New Faces--WS online8-05.pdf

Santa Rosa Press Democrat Article:
Fruitful Result After Rocky Start
PD June04-FRUITFUL RESULT AFTER ROCKY START.pdf

San Francisco Chronicle Article:
Squeezing Wine From a Rockpile
SFChronRockpile Nov04.pdf

Wine & Spirits:
Wild Thing 93 Point Score and Review
W&S WildThing93-Feb07.pdf

San Francisco Chronicle Article:
Winery to Watch
WineryToWatchSFChron12-8-05.pdf

The Wine News:
Rockpile: Where Brawny Reds Rule

The 2000 Zins score big at ZAP!
A sneak peek at the '99 Zinfandels - WineToday.com                                                                                  Monday, January 29, 2001
By Leslie Sbrocco and Linda Murphy

Shelton among the stars at S.F. Zinfandel Festival
By Mike Dunne
Sacramento Bee Food Editor   (Published Feb. 7, 2001)

More than wine makes the annual Zinfandel Festival in San Francisco so much fun.  There's also pleasure in the wait -- not the wait for a pour but the wait for the buzz to sweep through the crowd. When you pick up on it, you can't help but follow the pack to this "amazing" zinfandel or that "delightful" vintner.

Sometimes the trek is worth it, sometime it isn't. At the most recent Zinfandel Festival a week and a half ago, these stops along the buzz trail definitely were worth it:

Carol Shelton Wines
For nearly 20 years, winemaker Carol Shelton performed her artistry at Windsor Vineyards in Sonoma County, racking up all sorts of awards but remaining largely unknown because the winery distributes virtually all its wines by mail. Now she's out on her own, and at the festival was introducing her own label with three captivating wines that captured the essence of the diverse vineyards where she harvested the grapes: 

• The youthful, spirited, raspberry-accented Carol Shelton 2000 Monga Zin, made with fruit from 82-year-old vines in the Cucamonga Valley ($20)
• The husky but manageable Carol Shelton 2000 Wild Thing, from grapes grown in Mendocino County ($24)
• The firm, spicy, muscular Carol Shelton 2000 Rocky Reserve, from the evocative Rockpile Road Vineyard in the Dry Creek Valley of Sonoma County ($28).

All were made in small lots, with distribution direct to buyers (call (707) 575-3441, e-mail zin@carolshelton.com or visit her Web site at www.carolshelton.com), but in the years ahead watch for the wines of Carol Shelton to become both highly acclaimed and more readily available.

'99s shine at ZAP's zin extravaganza
By PEG MELNIK
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT, published Jan. 31, 2001

The 1999 zinfandels bite back and leave you smarting. This will please zin zealots because, for them, a zin is only a true zin when it has some fight in it. I elbowed my way through a crowd of 9,000 Saturday at Fort Mason in San Francisco to taste some of these feisty 1999 zinfandels just coming on the market. There were 255 wineries pouring barrel samples, new releases and some older vintages at the 10th annual tasting organized by ZAP, Zinfandel Advocates and Producers.

What follows are some tasting notes on some top-rate zins.

Carol Shelton Wines: 2000 Monga Zin,
Jose Lopez Vineyard, Cucamonga Valley, $19, barrel sample, release expected in summer 2001. A delectable wine for zin-lovers who like bold fruit and fat, toasty flavors. Rich and yet well structured with notes of cherry, blackberry, cocoa, caramel, vanilla.

Carol Shelton Wines: 2000 Wild Thing
Cox Vineyard, Mendocino County, $24, barrel sample, release expected this summer. An intense, full-bodied zin made from native yeasts. A tasty merger: spicy black pepper and jammy blackberry, boysenberry, plum.