100% Grenache from the Besson Family’s 113 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 distance from the start of the Santa Cruz Mountains, but several dozen feet too low to qualify for the appellation. The own-rooted bush vines thrive in the site’s sandy, rocky soils. Aged for 13 months in 228L barrels and 450L puncheons before bottling without fining or filtration.