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Heart Hill Vineyard Bootjack Ranch HEART HILL VINEYARD WILLOW CREEK AVA, PASO ROBLES WINE ESTATES Named for the naturally occurring grove of oak trees in the shape of a HEART HILL heart facing 46 West, Heart Hill Vineyard experiences a warm climate, VINEYARD 25 26 22 with cooling afternoon ocean breezes sailing through the break in the Santa Lucia Mountain Range known as the “Templeton Gap”. The soil 16 18 19 20 21 profile at Heart Hill is a prime example of the vast diversity found across 15 PLANTED ACREAGE 24 23 VARIETY ACREAGE the west side of Paso Robles. Although neighboring vineyards have 14 8 CABERNET SAUVIGNON 15 9 SYRAH 10 7 streaks of calcareous soils, Heart Hill Vineyard is comprised of steep, 13 MALBEC 4 CABERNET FRANC 4 17 PETIT VERDOT 3 hillside plantings on rocky slopes of siliceous shale. In this type of soil, GRENACHE NOIR 3 12 MERLOT 2 6 MOURVEDRE 2 vines must grow deep and powerful root systems in search of water. GRENACHE BLANC 2 ROUSANNE 1 MARSANNE 1 5 TOTAL 46 11 The land itself has a history as rich as the wines it produces, with a story 4 2 10 3 BLOCK INDEX that stretches over 100 years. The property was originally part of a 700 VARIETY BLOCK CLONE NUMBER acre ranch owned by Claude and Richard Booker. The Bookers were 1 GRENACHE BLANC GRENACHE NOIR 1 FIELD SELECT 14 CLONE 362 CABERNET FRANC PETIT VERDOT 2 CLONE 327 15 CLONE 400 hardworking, community oriented brothers who were hallmarks of Paso CABERNET SAUVIGNON ROUSSANNE 3 CLONE 337 16 CLONE 468 MALBEC CABERNET SAUVIGNON Robles and strove to preserve the land they worked on. We purchased the HEART 4 CLONE 595 17 CLONE 31 HILL BOOTJACK PETIT VERDOT SYRAH CLONE 400 18 CLONE 877 RANCH 5 SYRAH CABERNET SAUVIGNON land in 2003 and planted the current 46 acres in two stages: the slopes 6 CLONE 877 19 CLONE 47 SYRAH CABERNET SAUVIGNON 7 CLONE 383 20 CLONE 338 SYRAH CABERNET SAUVIGNON surrounding the Heart in 2007; and the remaining blocks on the north- 8 CLONE 470 21 CLONE 169 GRENACHE NOIR SYRAH N 9 CLONE 513 22 CLONE ALBAN MOURVEDRE MARSANNE end of the vineyard in 2010. 10 CLONE 247 23 CLONE 574 SYRAH MERLOT 11 CLONE 174 24 CLONE 346 CABERNET SAUVIGNON SYRAH 12 CLONE 33 25 CLONE 174 PACIFIC JESPERSEN CABERNET SAUVIGNON SYRAH OCEAN RANCH 13 CLONE 412 26 CLONE 7 BOOTJACK RANCH GENESEO DISTRICT, PASO ROBLES WINE ESTATES Sprawled out on the eastern side of Paso Robles, Bootjack Ranch BOOTJACK exemplifies the town’s strong, independent spirit. Once an ancient RANCH seabed, the vineyard has two distinct sections: flats of calcareous soils PLANTED ACREAGE B6 OLIVES B4 and hills of well-drained, sandy loam. The growing season sees daytime VARIETY ACREAGE CABERNET SAUVIGNON 39 temperatures in the 80’s and 90’s with dramatic drops of up to 40 degrees B2 B3 CABERNET FRANC 11 SANGIOVESE B5 14 B2 B6 MERLOT 9 B3 in temperature at night. Both the vines and the scattered olive groves thrive B5 MALBEC 5 BARBERA 5 CARMENERE 5 in this climate. Over time we’ve learned that grapes from this vineyard B7 PETIT VERDOT 2 OLIVES TOTAL 89 are better left unconstrained, which results in wines that are driven by the B10 B10 soil and the sun instead of the heavy hand of the winemaker. The wines B15 BLOCK INDEX B15 B16 VARIETY BLOCK CLONE NUMBER from Bootjack Ranch have bright, fresh fruit expression and strong tannin. A14 PETIT VERDOT CABERNET SAUVIGNON A1 CLONE 2 A14 CLONE 169 MALBEC CABERNET SAUVIGNON A 12 CLONE 9 A CLONE 4 B12 B12 B12 A3 15 CARMENERE CABERNET SAUVIGNON A4 CLONE 1 A16 CLONE 4 A13 A11 CABERNET FRANC CABERNET SAUVIGNON Bootjack Ranch is the very first vineyard we purchased. Since we bought A5 CLONE 623, 327 B2 CLONE 33, 35 A10 CABERNET FRANC BARBERA A6 CLONE 4 B3 CLONE 171, 84 B14 B14 B14 the property in early 1999, we have expanded it with new plantings and CARMENERE MALBEC A7 CLONE VCR-702 B4 CLONE 11, 598 A9 A8 PETIT VERDOT MERLOT graftings in 1999, 2001, 2005 and 2010. A range of varietals have proven A8 CLONE 400 B5 CLONE 181, 348 CABERNET SAUVIGNON CABERNET FRANC A7 A9 CLONE 15 B6 CLONE 13, 11 SANGIOVESE HEART A6 CABERNET SAUVIGNON A CLONE 15 B7 CLONE RODINO, 3A to do well at Bootjack Ranch including Cabernet Sauvignon, Sangiovese HILL BOOTJACK 10 RANCH CABERNET SAUVIGNON CABERNET SAUVIGNON A11 CLONE 8 B10 CLONE 4 CABERNET SAUVIGNON SANGIOVESE A5 CLONE 8 B CLONE RODINO and Malbec. We also have smaller plantings of Barbara, Carmenere, and A4 A12 12 A5 A3 CABERNET SAUVIGNON SANGIOVESE A13 CLONE 4 B14 CLONE VCR-06 Merlot. A1 N PACIFIC JESPERSEN OCEAN RANCH JESPERSEN RANCH WINE ESTATES EDNA VALLEY 29 30 JESPERSEN 27 RANCH Nestled into the rolling hills of the northwest corner of Edna Valley, 28 Jespersen Ranch lies four miles from the Pacific Ocean, and derives much PLANTED ACREAGE VARIETY ACREAGE of its personality from the coastal influence. The growing season is long 26 PINOT NOIR 33 19 23 CHARDONNAY 21 and cool with average daytime temperatures in the 70s balanced by early 24 20 21 GRENACHE NOIR 22 25 9 SYRAH 8 18 morning fog and mid-afternoon ocean breezes. The soils at Jespersen 4 3 SAUVIGNON BLANC 3 ALBARINO 3 2 TOTAL 77 Ranch are very different from Paso Robles with dark, organic clay topsoil 13 9 11 12 and a sandy subsoil. The result is well-drained vigorous soils where the 10B 1 BLOCK INDEX 14 10A 9 7 VARIETY CLONE NUMBER 6 BLOCK challenge in growing high quality grapes is controlling abundant vigor. 5 8 SAUVIGNON BLANC SYRAH 1 CLONE 376 16 CLONE 174 PINOT NOIR PINOT NOIR 15 2 CLONE 777 17 CLONE 667 16 PINOT NOIR GRENACHE NOIR 3 CLONE 2A 18 CLONE 136 PINOT NOIR GRENACHE NOIR We purchased the vineyard 2011 and it is located thirty miles south of 4 CLONE 828 19 CLONE 136 SAUVIGNON BLANC GRENACHE NOIR 5 CLONE 1 20 CLONE ALBAN 17 CHARDONNAY PINOT NOIR Paso Robles in the Edna Valley AVA. The vineyard was originally planted 6 CLONE 548 21 CLONE 2A CHARDONNAY PINOT NOIR 7 CLONE 95 22 CLONE 828 ALBARINO PINOT NOIR by Andy Blodgett, who had a passion for the site and the vision to plant 8 FIELD SELECTION 23 CLONE CALERA ALBARINO PINOT NOIR 9 FIELD SELECTION 24 CLONE ROCHIOLI SYRAH PINOT NOIR it the right way from the beginning. Andy planted the original 46 acres HEART 10A CLONE A 25 CLONE 115 HILL BOOTJACK SYRAH PINOT NOIR RANCH CLONE 877 CLONE 828 10B 26 PINOT NOIR CHARDONNAY in 2006 and 2007 and we planted an additional 31 acres in 2012. The 11 CLONE 115 27 CLONE 04 PINOT NOIR CHARDONNAY 12 CLONE 667 28 CLONE 17 undisputed stars and largest acreage plantings at Jespersen Ranch are PINOT NOIR CHARDONNAY 13 CLONE 828 29 CLONE 04 N GRENACHE NOIR CHARDONNAY 14 CLONE 362 30 CLONE 17 Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. PINOT NOIR PACIFIC JESPERSEN CLONE 777 OCEAN RANCH 15.
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