100% Grenache Blanc from Coteaux de Clair Vineyard in the Santa Ynez Valley. This 2-acre site has been farmed organically since being planted in 2011. The grapes were whole-cluster direct pressed to stainless steel tank for fermentation with native yeasts. The wine was matured for 4 months in...

100% Grenache from the Besson Family’s 112 year-old dry-farmed vineyard in the Santa Clara Valley. George Besson Sr. purchased the grenache vineyard and farmhouse just after WWII on a gently north-facing rocky slope. These non-irrigated vines, planted on their own roots in 1910, sit a short...

The majority of the fruit for this bottling comes from George Besson's decades-old Pinot Noir, planted at the foot of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Two sites from the higher-elevation limestone soils of the Gabilan Range (Rodnick and Boer) were used to supplement the blend, providing darker fruit and...

Cinsault from the historic Bechtold Vineyard in the Mokelumne River AVA of Lodi. The twenty-five acre own-rooted Bechthold vineyard, planted in 1886 by German immigrant Joseph Spenker, is the oldest continuously farmed vineyard in Lodi. Bechtold is farmed organically, without irrigation, on Tokay...

Grenache 72%, Carignane 11%, Mourvèdre 7%, Cinsault 7%,and Vermentino 3%.The Grenache comes from the western edge of the Salinas Valley, complimented by very old Carignane, Mourvedre, and Cinsault vines in Contra Costa and Lodi. The fruit is all hand-harvested and fermented with native yeasts in a...

100% Chenin Blanc from the organically farmed Jurassic Park vineyard in the Santa Ynez Valley. Planted in 1978, the ungrafted Jurassic Park Vineyard sits at 335m elevation on sandy, well-drained limestone-laden soils.The site exhibits a great deal of vintage variation, with some years leaning...

100% Cortese from Lost Slough – a 300-acre vineyard in the river delta area of Sacramento’s Clarksburg AVA. It is unusually cool for its location and very rich with minerals as the vineyard was once below sea level and still contains many shells in its sandy soil. Whole clusters were foot stomped...

26% Picpoul, 22% Clairette, 22% Orange Muscat, 15% Marsanne, 10% Roussanne, and 5% Chardonnay. The Love White wine has evolved over the years from a Rhône blend of Marsanne and Roussanne and this is the first year they have added Orange Muscat to the mix, adding distinct aromatics and texture to...

100% Grenache Gris from Gibson Ranch in McDowell Valley (Mendocino), where some of the Grenache vines are over 110-years old. The color varies each year depending on the canopy of the vines throughout the growing season. This year the grapes were footstomped and left on the skins for 24 hours...

100% Catarratto. From vines averaging 7-8 years old in the Buonivini contrada in the commune of Pachino on the extreme southeastern tip of Sicily (only 7 kilometers from both the Ionian and Mediterranean seas). The farming is organic, including only organic cow manure used occasionally as...

A blend of Listan Blanco, Albillo Criollo, and Verdello (the Portuguese varietal found in Madeira, not to be confused with Verdejo from continental Spain) from Cercado del Pino, a 1.5 hectare vineyard in Orotova.  The Listan Blanco is pressed directly, full clusters, and fermented in concrete.  The...

A blend of Vijariego Negro and Gual from the Los Topes vineyard at 620m elevation. Gentle pressing and cofermented with indigenous yeasts. Aged five months in French Oak. 530 bottles produced.

Catarratto (biotypes Lucido, Comune, and Catarratteddo) from the contradas of Bausa, Amafi, and Abbadessa, guyot and alberello, planted between 1993 and 2008. Fermented in stainless steel, 24 hours of maceration. Aged in concrete. 

50% Pignatello aka Perricone, 50% Nero d'Avola from 2ha of vineyards, planted 2003-2013. Guyot + Alberello. 140m asl.  Separate harvests and vinifications, macerations 14 days.  Aged 70% in stainless steel, 30% in used chestnut tonneaux. 

Grillo from contrada Rina Vecchia, in Castelvetrano, about an hour's drive from the Baracco cellar. Vines planted in 1975.  10-20m above sea.  Sandy, iron-rich red soil over limestone. 24 hours of maceration. Fermentations between stainless steel and 3000L chestnust cask. Aging between concrete and...

Catarratto, from a 0.8ha vineyard at sea level, recently taken in rental, vines planted in 1989.  Sandy/silty topsoil, but chalk below the surface.  Direct-pressed (no maceration), fermented in stainless steel and aged between steel and used oak tonneaux for 8 months. Tiny production of just 600...

From just two hectares, in a slightly cooler zone than the Chablis, with Portlandian soils.  These soils are slightly younger limestone than their famed Kimmeridgian counterparts, emphasizing the fruit rather than mineral aspects of these classic wines. The vines also are younger, averaging 30-...