July 28 - JULY 31 2019 Table of Contents
Schedule of Events...... 4-6
West Sonoma Coast History and Information...... 8
Map of West Sonoma Coast Vintners...... 9
Formal Seminar Details...... 10-17
The Economics of Yield of the West Sonoma Coast...... 19
Guest Speaker Information...... 20
Typical Soils of the West Sonoma Coast...... 21-22
Participant Member Wineries...... 23
Winery Contact Information...... 24-32
Sponsors...... 33-35
Notes...... 36-37
Farm Camp Contact...... 39
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SUNDAY, JULY 28 2:30PM Depart for Timber Cove 21780 North Coast Highway 1, Jenner 5:30PM Small Vines Wines Presentation by Paul Sloan Green Valley Sub-Region Presentation 4:15PM Arrive at Timber Cove. Express Check In Welcome Dinner at Small Vines Winery 2160 Green Hill Rd, Sebastopol 4:15PM-6:00PM Attendee free time
10:00PM Drinks/After party location: 6:00PM – 7:30PM Formal Seminar Two: Old Main Street Saloon Comparative Chardonnay Seminar 153 North Main Street, Sebastopol in Ansel Adams Room
7:30PM Outdoor reception MONDAY, JULY 29 8:15PM Family-style Dinner in Dining Room 8:00AM Depart for Occidental by car/caravan 14715 Bodega Hwy, Bodega Bay 10:00PM Optional – After Dinner: Timber Cove Bar & Game Deck 8:30AM – 9:15AM Breakfast at Occidental Kistler Wine Presentation by Steve Kistler TUESDAY, july 30
9:15AM-10:45AM Formal Seminar One: 8:00AM Breakfast at Timber Cove in Ansel Adams Room Terroir of the West Sonoma Coast 8:15AM Roundtable Discussion: How does consolidation 10:45AM Depart for Littorai Wines of distribution affect you and us? 788 Gold Ridge Rd, Sebastopol Moderators: Vonda Freeman and Yannick Benjamin 11:15AM – 12:00PM Littorai Wine Presentation by Ted Lemon Sebastopol Hills Sub-Region Presentation and 9:00AM-10:30AM Formal Seminar Three: Farming Challenges in WSC Located in the Great Room at Timber Cove Comparative Pinot Noir Seminar 12:00PM Guest Speaker: Soyoung Scanlan, Andante Dairy 11:00AM Load on buses to Hirsch Vineyard 12:30AM Depart for Freeman’s Yu-Ki Estate Vineyard 45075 Bohan Dillon Road 3225 Freeman Ranch Way, Occidental 11:45AM – 12:15PM Elliott Vineyard – Ceritas Wine Presentation 1:00PM – 2:30PM Picnic Lunch and Yu-Ki Vineyard by John Raytek Presentation of Freeman Wine by Ken Freeman Fort Ross / Seaview Sub-Region Presentation Freestone/Occidental Sub-Region Presentation Soil Pit presentation by Greg Adams 12:15PM – 1:00PM Picnic Lunch at Hirsch Economics of Yield discussion Round Table Discussion: Trends vs. Classics Moderators: Mark Guillaudeu and Femi Oyedian Group Photo 4 #farmcamp19 #westsonomacoast #farmcamp19 #westsonomacoast 5 Notes: schedule of events
1:00PM Hirsch Wine Presentation by Jasmine Hirsch on Crush Pad
1:15PM – 2:45PM Formal Seminar Four: Comparative Appellation Pinot Noir
2:45PM Depart for Whistler Vineyard 43500 Brushy Ridge Loop, Annapolis CA
4:15PM – 5:00PM Whistler Wine Presentation by Stig Hansen & Jennifer Whistler Annapolis Sub-Region Presentation
5:00PM Depart for Peay Vineyards 33201 Annapolis Road, Annapolis
5:30PM-5:45PM Peay Wine Presentation by Andy Peay
6:00PM Finale Dinner at Peay Vineyards
10:00PM Buses depart, dinner ends
WEDNESDAY, July 31
8:00AM Breakfast at Timber Cove
9:00AM Bus Departs for San Francisco (stops in front of Zuni Café)
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West Sonoma Coast Vintners is an association of wineries and growers who advocate the unique terroir of Sonoma’s coastal ranges. Currently, we are a part of the much larger Sonoma Coast AVA created in 1987 but the discovery of a singular style of wine made from the cool and foggy smaller coastal region led to the formation of our group and the desire to create a smaller AVA. This is what we refer to as the West Sonoma Coast. This slice of the Sonoma Coast - what locals call “West County” - is profoundly shaped by the very cold year-round water temperature of the Pacific Ocean that creates a coastal inversion layer of cold and wet air and a maritime climate for grape growing that is not found anywhere else in the world. The impact of this climate, and the geological history of the San Andreas Fault that formed our ranges, establishes conditions for making wines that retain freshness while delivering impact and complexity. The Mendocino County West Sonoma Coast region contains many distinct growing areas including Annapolis, Fort Ross-Seaview, Freestone-Occidental, portions of Green Valley, and the Sebastopol Hills. Our members are dedicated to preserving and protecting the history, landscape, and culture of the West Sonoma Coast while promoting CLOVERDALE the wines of balance, integrity, character and nuance that can be made here.
GUALALA Whistler - Estate Vyd Thank you for joining us at our West Sonoma Coast Farm Camp. We look forward to learning more about 1 this nascent grape-growing region together and sharing with you, and the wider world, our discoveries. Alma Fria - Holtermann Vyd R u ss Sonoma County ia n ANNAPOLIS R iv e SEA RANCH Peay - Estate Vyd r Paul Hobbs 101
G u a N l a la West Sonoma R iv e r Coast AVA HEALDSBURG 1 Wayfarer - Estate Vyd Red Car - Estate Vyd
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Failla - Estate Vyd RAEN - Homefield Flowers - Camp Meeting Ridge FORT ROSS 1 GUERNEVILLE
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Banshee Pacific Ocean DuMOL-Estate Small Vines - TBH Vyd OCCIDENTAL Freeman - Yu-ki Vyd SEBASTOPOL Balletto Vyd Ceritas - Ernest - Estate Vyd Occidental Vyd Littorai - Pivot Vyd 1 Joseph Senses Wines - Phelps - Pastorale Vyd B.A. Thieriot FREESTONE Occidental - Bodega Headlands BODEGA BAY LEGEND SAN FRANCISCO West Sonoma Coast Flagship Vineyards 66 Miles Proposed West Sonoma Coast AVA West Sonoma Coast AVA Marketing Region
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wine 2 ______Terroir of the West Sonoma Coast ______
wine 3 ______Panelists: ______
Wine 4 ______Steve Kistler ______Occidental Wine 5 ______
wine 6 ______Jasmine ______Hirsch wine 7 ______Hirsch ______
Ted Lemon wine 8 ______Littorai ______
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Stig Hansen Wine 11 ______Whistler ______Paul Sloan Small Vines Wine 12 ______
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wine 2 ______Comparative Chardonnay Seminar ______Panelists: wine 3 ______
Wine 4 ______John Raytek ______Ceritas ______
Wine 5 ______Ken Freeman ______Freeman wine 6 ______
wine 7 ______Andy Smith ______DuMol wine 8 ______
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Wine 11 ______E. Tanner Scheer ______Red Car Andy Peay Wine 12 ______Peay Vineyards ______
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wine 2 ______Comparative Pinot Noir Seminar ______wine 3 ______Panelists: ______
Wine 4 ______Anthony Beckman ______Balletto Wine 5 ______
Cleo Pahlmeyer wine 6 ______Wayfarer ______
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wine 8 ______
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Wine 11 ______Joseph Ryan ______Ernest ______
Ehren Jordan Wine 12 ______Failla ______
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wine 2 ______Comparative Appellation Pinot Noir Seminar ______wine 3 ______Panelists: ______
Wine 4 ______Carroll Kemp ______Alma Fria Wine 5 ______Christopher Strieter ______Senses ______wine 6 ______
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Wine 11 ______Baron Ziegler ______Banshee ______
Chris Pittenger Wine 12 ______Gros Ventre ______
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WEST SONOMA COAST VINTNERS The Economics of Yield - Farm Camp 2019
Assump�ons: Retail $/btl 65 FOB $/btl 32.5 Retail $/case 780 FOB $/case 390
100% FOB Avg $ Case 390
Tons/Acre 1 1.25 1.5 1.75 2
Avg $ Case 390 390 390 390 390
COGS per Case in $: Farming @ $14,000 per acre 255 204 170 145 127 Cellar 100 100 100 100 100 Bo�ling 30 30 30 30 30 Storage/Excise Taxes 5 5 5 5 5 Total COGS 390 339 305 280 262 Gross Margin 0 51 85 110 128 GM % 0% 13% 22% 28% 33%
Expense: Sales & Marke�ng @ 30% 117 117 117 117 117 General & Administra�ve @ 20% 78 78 78 78 78 Total Expense 195 195 195 195 195
Net Opera�ng Income -195 -144 -110 -85 -67 NOI % -50% -37% -28% -22% -17%
50% FOB Avg $ Case 585
Tons/Acre 1 1.25 1.5 1.75 2
Avg $ Case 585 585 585 585 585
COGS per Case in $: Farming @ $14,000 per acre 255 218 170 145 127 Cellar 100 100 100 100 100 Bo�ling 30 30 30 30 30 Storage/Excise Taxes 5 5 5 5 5 Total COGS 390 353 305 280 262 Gross Margin 195 232 280 305 323 GM % 33% 40% 48% 52% 55%
Expense: Sales & Marke�ng @ 30% 175.5 175.5 175.5 175.5 175.5 General & Administra�ve @ 20% 117 117 117 117 117 Total Expense 292.5 292.5 292.5 292.5 292.5
Net Opera�ng Income -97 -61 -12 12 30 NOI % -17% -10% -2% 2% 5%
25% FOB Avg $ Case 682.5
Tons/Acre 1 1.25 1.5 1.75 2
Avg $ Case 682.5 682.5 682.5 682.5 682.5
COGS per Case in $: Farming @ $14,000 per acre 255 204 170 145 127 Cellar 100 100 100 100 100 Bo�ling 30 30 30 30 30 Storage/Excise Taxes 5 5 5 5 5 Total COGS 390 339 305 280 262 Gross Margin 293 344 378 402 420 GM % 43% 50% 55% 59% 62%
Expense: Sales & Marke�ng @ 30% 204.75 204.75 204.75 204.75 204.75 General & Administra�ve @ 20% 136.5 136.5 136.5 136.5 136.5 Total Expense 341.25 341.25 341.25 341.25 341.25
Net Opera�ng Income -48 3 37 61 79 NOI % -7% 0% 5% 9% 12%
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Soyoung Scanlan, Cheesemaker, Andante Dairy Soyoung Scanlan is the soloist at the cheese making operation at Andante Dairy, which was established in July of 1999. After studying life science and dairy science and working as a biochemist and a dairy scientist, Soyoung decided to become a cheese maker. She named her company Andante, which is the tempo mark for many songlike movements that indicates a moderate rate of speed of a strolling walk, in order to describe her longing for the slower speed of life and the proper speed of traditional cheese making. Soyoung uses Jersey cow’s milk, which is known as the best cow’s milk for cheese making, exclusively. She uses goat’s milk from the dairy farm on which her plant is operated. All of her cheese is designed to bring out the magical property of milk and to reveal the essence of terroirs which the milk and the cheese are produced.
Greg Adams, Viticultural and Winemaking Consultant, Beyond the Vine Greg Adams: a native of Sonoma County, understands the dedication to detail that it takes to produce world class wine along the extreme Sonoma Coast. Greg started his technical education by earning his BS degree in Agricultural Engineering Technology at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, then moved on to U.C. Davis where he earned his M.S. degree in Viticulture in 1992. After leaving Davis, Greg spent nearly six years consulting in Argentina where he worked with dozens of top wineries improving the quality of estate and The Atwell series The Blucher series The Goldridge consists reserve winegrape sources and developing world class vineyards. consists of somewhat well consists of somewhat poorly of moderately well drained drained clay loams soils drained coarse blocky loam soil that has a dark yellowish Returning to California in 1998, he then managed the Estate vineyards and new vineyard development of derived from in material from and sandy loam, underlain by brown granular fine sandy Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars in Napa. From Napa Valley to the Rugged Sonoma Coast, Greg dedicated himself sheared sedimentary fine mixed sedimentary alluvium of loam surface horizon over to the cultivation of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay at Flowers Vineyard and Winery, where he refined one of grained sandstone and shale. stratified silt and clay. These yellowish brown subsoils the most unique clonal collections in California, helping establish Flowers Vineyard and Winery as a pre- The typical profile of the Atwell soils are found in basins of coarse-grained weakly- eminent producer of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay on the “true Sonoma Coast”. series has a surface horizon of along stream bottoms and on consolidated massively dark grayish brown friable to alluvial fans. The soil consists structured sandy loam, Since leaving Flowers, Greg has been working independently as a Viticultural and Winemaking Consultant firm granularly structured clay of a surface horizon of dark sandy clay, or sandy clay in West Sonoma County specializing in the development of exclusive Vineyard properties and the production of Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and cool climate Syrah. During the last 16 years, Greg has shared loam. The upper subsoil is a gray loam, sandy loam, or silt loam in softened or fractured his broad range of experience, insight and energy with dozens of elite growers and a prestigious group of pale brown clay loam with firm loam of about 20” thick over sandstone. These soils exhibit Sonoma County wineries, including Patz & Hall, Lynmar, Freeman, Red Car, Alma Fria, Gregory James to hard massive structure to a a layer of fine sandy loam 20-40% yellowish brown or Wines and Baker Lane Vineyards to name a few. depth of about 40 inches. The to a depth of 34”. The lower strong brown geologic mottling lower subsoil is a dark gray subsoil is a dark gray heavy caused by decomposition of Spend some time with Greg and he will make a firm believer out of anyone who questions whether great hard massively structured massively structured silty clay soluble leached organic acids wines are made in the vineyard. clay. The upper subsoil has or clay. in slightly porous decomposing common dark brown mottles. sandstone. The soils surface The mottling indicates poor is typically moderately acid subsoil drainage caused by and the subsoils are strongly the lower subsoil’s horizon of to extremely acid. massively structured clay.
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32 Winds Alma Fria* Balletto* Banshee* Ceritas* Paul Hobbs DuMOL* Ernest* Failla* Flowers Vineyards & Winery Freeman Vineyard & Winery* Gros Ventre* Hirsch Vineyards* Joseph Phelps Littorai* The Hugo is a well-drained The Josephine consists The Yorkville series Occidental* soil that has a sandy clay of well-drained soils that consists of somewhat well Peay Vineyards* loam subsoils. The soils have formed in colluvium and drained soils that are formed Raen a surface horizon of brown residuum weathered from in material weathered Red Car Wine Company* to dark yellowish brown altered sandstones and from serpentinized igneous Senses Wines* granularly structured loam shales. The surface horizon to rocks and metamorphosed Small Vines* surface horizon with 20- a depth of about 9” is medium graywacke. The surface 40% subangular gravel and acid granular or blocky horizon to a depth of 14” to Wayfarer* cobbles over an upper subsoil structured reddish brown 18” is consists of dark grayish Whistler Vineyards* of dark yellowish brown loam. The upper subsoil brown clay loam with a coarse gravelly blocky structured to a depth of about 30” is a angular blocky or prismatic sandy clay loam. The lower medium acid to strongly acid structure. The upper subsoil subsoil is dark yellowish blocky yellowish red clay to a depth of about 30” to *participating winery brown gravelly massively loam. At a depth of 24 to 60 36” consists of a dark gray structured clay loam over inches they are underlain by clay that ranges in structure weathered sandstone, shale, yellowish red to red yellow from medium angular blocky schist, greywacke and/or clay loam with 40-80% soft, to massive. The lower sedimentary conglomerate. weathered, fine-grained subsoil consists of dark gray sandstone or shale. massively structured clay inter-dispersed with 20-60% weathered greenish gray serpentine or graywacke. Paul R. Anamosa, Ph.D. Soil Scientist and Viticulturist
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with a sense of wanderlust do Social Media the quality and price scale, but when they are searching for Instagram: ballettovineyards at a price that is affordable for their destiny? They move to the Facebook: ballettovineyards everyone and not just the West Sonoma Coast, of course. uber-wealthy. Contact Info Ceritas Alma Fria Carroll’s journey in winemaking The Banshee tasting room Alma Fria Wine \al-mah free- 5700 Occidental Road John Raytek / Winemaker started nearly twenty years opened in August of 2013 ah\: the West Sonoma Coast’s Santa Rosa, CA 95401 and Co-owner ago when he founded Red in downtown Healdsburg, a windswept Pacific climate, Balletto 707-568.2455 Cuisine and wine are common Car. Over time, he came to refreshing and relaxed take on up-lifted coastal mountains bedfellows. So describes the understand that making wine Vineyards your typical tasting room. It’s and towering ancient redwoods experience of John Raytek, that speaks more of place than Balletto Vineyards is a family- more like hanging out at our converge in Alma Fria’s elegant whose intense interest in people is more about listening owned and operated winery and house and sharing some wine Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. the culinary world led to than doing. It requires one one of the few Estate Grown with us, rather than bellying up his passionate pursuit of to get outside of the powerful and Bottled wines in Russian to an over-crowded tasting bar. Alma Fria, a small winery winemaking. A self-described influence of the youthful River Valley and West Sonoma Our offerings have never located in the remote ridge tops old world vigneron, John California wine culture. Indeed, Coast. We have 100% control been stronger. Lip-smacking of the West Sonoma Coast, was cultivates wines in the it requires one to get outside from vineyard to bottle, and Rose, crab-worthy coastal founded after proprietor, Jan vineyard first, implementing of one’s self. Carroll has been only select the best vineyards Chardonnay, the gentle giant Holtermann, and winemaker, the traditional winemaking pursuing this goal for two and blocks for our wines. BansheE that is our “mordecai,” and of Carroll Kemp, became friends approach of considering the decades. Alma Fria’s wines We specialize in Pinot Noir We started Banshee Wines in course, some the best damn and joined forces. They have grapes’ experience on the vines are the culmination of his and Chardonnay which are 2009 at a bar in the Dogpatch Pinot Noir in the country. taken the long-term, vineyard to guide their treatment in the experience. They truly allow consistently elegant, balanced Neighborhood of San Francisco. first point of view from day winery. Few details go unnoticed nature to assert more influence and delicious. With money borrowed from our Today the Banshee Wines one. In 2012, they discovered in John’s world, particularly than man. friends and family, Banshee mission remains the same as a vineyard near the hamlets of in the vineyard and cellar, Three generations of the Balletto Wines was launched with eight it was in those early days — to Annapolis and Sea Ranch that enabling John to produce wines Today, these kindred spirits family have farmed the Russian barrels of coveted Sonoma craft distinctive wines that over- they felt certain was capable of that showcase the terroir rather are dedicated to using a blend River Valley over the past 40 Coast Pinot Noir. Our initial deliver in every possible way. growing Pinot Noir that would than production techniques. of humility, understanding of years. At the age of 17, John intent was to make wines that harken back to the varietal’s Ceritas Chardonnay, Pinot Noir terroir and attention to detail Balletto took over the family’s tasted like the best California ancestral land. One could Social Media and Cabernet Sauvignon are to produce truly graceful Pinot vegetable farming business after had to offer, but were priced so almost see the ghosts of grazing @bansheewines living testament to the time and Noir and Chardonnay and to the untimely death of his father. that everyone could sheep amidst the fog when they place from which they derive. exploring how nature connects Seeing a bright future for wine enjoy them. first arrived. Those vines are Contact Info By observing, learning, adapting all of us by delving into the growing in Russian River Valley, now known as the Holtermann 113 West North St. and applying the teachings of biophilic soul of the cold West John and his wife, Terri, began After a few years, we migrated Vineyard, named after a Healdsburg, CA 95448 the vineyards, John’s traditional Sonoma Coast. to transition the company to up to the small but bustling 707.473.8214 winemaking techniques family long dedicated to the grape growing in 1995 and, by town of Healdsburg, in the continuously reinforce his belief love of wine. 2001, had their first vintage of heart of Sonoma County. From Social Media Banshee Wines Tasting Room that often, it is more important 400 cases of Balletto Vineyards here, we’ve developed strong Instagram: @almafriawines 325 Center Street to know what not to do, than Jan thinks of life generationally. wine. John, Terri and the third relationships with the owners Pinterest: @almafriawines Healdsburg, CA 95448 what to do. His family emigrated from generation continue to invest and growers of some of the best 707.395.0915 Norway to Costa Rica many in vineyards and the Sonoma and most coveted vineyards in Contact Info Phoebe Bass / Farmer decades ago and founded a County community, creating Sonoma, working in lock step www.almafria.com and Co-owner small wine import business. a welcoming Sonoma County with them to produce wines of [email protected] A childhood firmly rooted in Three generations later, Jan winery experience for visitors. depth, purity and balance. We found himself at the helm when strive to make wines with the the family vineyards of Porter- it was acquired by a much complexity and deliciousness of Bass blessed Phoebe with an larger enterprise. And what does those found at the very top of innate sense of the plant world, any Pinot Noir crazed person as well as wine. 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of Sue and Dirck Bass, Phoebe Social Media has become over 30 acres elements of what they loved vineyards in the Russian River amassed a wealth of knowledge Instagram: @dumolwinery and continues to grow. His about Burgundy, Ken and Akiko Valley and on the extreme about plants, gardening and obsessive hands-on farming believed California was capable Sonoma Coast, Akiko and wine growing, which led Contact Info practices and his minimalist of producing wines every bit as Ken strive for a virtuous and her to pursue a degree in 707.948.7144 hands-off winemaking style complex and compelling. authentic relationship Environmental Sciences. Her [email protected] come through in every bottle, This belief led them to explore with nature. adept understanding of the www.dumol.com allowing site, variety and more than 300 vineyards and relationship of plants to the vintage to shine through. Failla vineyard sites, both in their Social Media soils and greater environment Failla now represents a benchmark search for grower partners, and Facebook: Freeman Vineyard & has positioned her well to direct Failla Wines is the creation of for cool climate fruit from the in their quest to establish a Winery @FreemanWinery the farming operations for each Ehren Jordan. Ehren brings extreme coastal areas of one of world-class estate program of Twitter: @Freeman_Winery Ceritas vineyard. Indisputably, decades of combined experience California’s finest regions. their own. Believing in a more Instagram: freeman_winery Phoebe is the boots on the Ernest Vineyards in the cellars and vineyards of eloquent, cool-climate style of ground in the vineyards, the the Rhône Valley, Paso Robles, Social Media winemaking, their searches led Todd Gottula and Erin Brooks Contact Info knitter of warm sweaters for Sonoma County, Napa Valley Facebook: @Faillawines them to cooler hillside sites on founded Ernest Vineyards in 1300 Montgomery Rd cold harvest mornings, and the and beyond. The highlight of Twitter: @Faillawines the edges of modern California 2012 to craft wines of integrity Sebastopol CA 95472 grower of outlandishly delicious this journey was a two-year Instagram: @faillawines viticulture. Often swathed in fog and restraint from West 707.823.6937 produce throughout the year. apprenticeship in the Rhône and cooled by coastal breezes, Sonoma Coast. We focus on www.freemanwinery.com Valley that gave Ehren the these were vineyards that undiscovered vineyards and Contact Info [email protected] Contact Info viticultural training that has challenged the vines, where the small-lot wines that offer a www.faillawines.com Phoebe Raytek forever infused his approach yields were low and the fruit sense of place and purpose in Benjamin Richardson [email protected] to farming and winemaking. ripened slowly, producing wines Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. [email protected] PO Box 2156 While gaining this knowledge of purity and consequence. This commitment to uncovering 3530 Silverado Trail Healdsburg, CA 95448 and perspective, Ehren had the as yet unheralded fruit sources N. Saint Helena, CA 94574 unique opportunity to purchase From the very first vintage, the reinforces our relationships with P 707-963-0530 a piece of land that spoke to Freeman style went against Gros Ventre family winegrape growers and F 707-963-0570 these points of winemaking convention. While others Cellars farmers and allows for beautiful inspiration. Scraping together pushed the limits of ripeness, Founded by husband and wife synergy between the sites and the resources he could, Ehren Akiko and celebrated consulting team Sarah and Chris Pittenger finished wines. At a total of purchased a remote plot of land winemaker Ed Kurtzman sought in 2009, Gros Ventre is a small, less than three thousand cases along the rugged Sonoma Coast balance and refinement. This family-owned winery. They annually, we have intimate and began cultivating what approach has garnered Freeman produce vineyard-designated DuMOL control over our small company would become Failla. He initially international praise and a place Pinot noir from the West DuMOL is a winemaker-owned and are daily involved in planted the Estate Vineyard on some of the world’s most Sonoma Coast and Anderson producer of small-lot cool sharing our story, wines and to Chardonnay and Syrah, discriminating wine lists. It has Valley, along with wines from climate West Sonoma Coast continued mission. Freeman Vineyard followed by plantings of Pinot also earned Freeman recognition the burgeoning wine region of El Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Noir in 2002. Failla’s first & Winery as one of California’s most Dorado, where Chris is also the Syrah from exceptional Estate Social Media vintage in 1998 consisted of two Freeman Vineyard & Winery visionary and acclaimed small winemaker for Rhone producer and grower vineyards. We’ve FB: Ernest Vineyards single vineyard bottlings but was founded by Ken and Akiko wineries. Skinner Vineyards. Gros Ventre worked with some of these sites IG: @ernestvineyards that has grown to include Freeman in 2001. But the seed produces less than 1,000 cases for over two decades to present TW: @ernestvineyards additional bottlings reflective of for Freeman was planted more Today, Freeman continues to be of wine per year, most of which the purest essence of the the relationships he has molded than 15 years earlier, when defined by the same beliefs that is reserved for fine restaurants vineyard and vintage. Our wines Contact Info with great farmers as well as Akiko and Ken discovered they inspired its inaugural vintage. and mailing list customers. are known for their balance and [email protected] additional opportunities to shared a passion for a more Whether they are working with expressiveness. They’re sold 415.305.2507 purchase land he can farm as elegant and refined style of legendary growers like Keefer through limited allocations to he sees fit. What started as five Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. and Heintz, or with Freeman’s our consumer mailing list and planted acres of estate holdings Though this style embodied own, sustainably farmed estate top restaurants worldwide.
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Social Media clash of opposites meeting in heart of Burgundy. In the early this collection of pinot noirs are as naturally self-regulating Instagram/Twitter: Nature and Life: the edge of 1990s, The Lemons traveled in the same cellar from some as possible, in order to best @grosventrewines the continent washed by the the west coast of the United of California’s most remote withstand the unpredictable Facebook: @grosventrecellars sea; the eviternal grinding of States looking for the best and challenging coastal sites coastal conditions. the North American and Pacific growing conditions for Pinot was invaluable in guiding the Contact Info plates along the San Andreas Noir and Chardonnay. At that occidental direction that Occidental’s The Occidental pinot noirs are time, the extreme north coast of future development would take. crystalline wines with vivid Gros Ventre Cellars Fault; the wet winters and Occidental is Steve Kistler’s California had little reputation aromatics and intense red-fruit 641 Weaver Way dry summers caused by the new pinot noir project with a for wine grapes. The Bodega Headlands property flavors. They have a wonderfully Placerville, California 95667 ocean and desert climates; singular focus – to make world- was purchased in 1999. This chiseled quality, layered with the dripping rain forest and class pinot noir from unique Founded in 1993, Littorai 100-acre ranch is situated on a savory and mineral character. Gros Ventre Cellars parched pastures; the contact sites on the headlands in the produces approximately four ridge above the town of Bodega. 8054 Fairplay Road and intermingling of cultures: Freestone-Occidental area. to five thousand cases of wine In 2001, Steve Kistler planted “We are reminded on a Somerset, California 95684 Native American, Mexican, Since the early 1990s, Steve per year. This dedication to 20 acres of pinot noir here. He daily basis that to farm 707.955.5788 Russian, European; the change Kistler has believed that the extremely limited quantities would then purchase the 250- the Occidental vineyards [email protected] in rural economy from logging climate and soils on the uplifted ensures that the Lemon family acre Bodega Ridge property in demands all our skill and and ranching to wine growing. marine terraces and ridges can handcraft and manage 2008, which sits on the same perseverance, while the around the town of Bodega Littorai in the tradition of the ridgetop as Bodega Headlands Occidental wines require our Social Media would be ideal for growing great artisanal winegrowing overlooking the Pacific Ocean. most delicate touch.” Instagram: @jasminehirsch distinctive and Burgundian- estates of Europe. We From 2012 to 2017, 65 Instagram: @hirschvineyards style pinot noir. He founded passionately believe that additional acres of pinot noir Hirsch Vineyards Twitter: @hirschvineyards Occidental as a small, family Social Media farming using only natural were planted and a small Hirsch Vineyards is recognized Twitter: @jasminehirsch brand in 2011, and built a Facebook: Occidental Wines materials is the starting point winery was built in time for as one of the finest Pinot Noir Facebook: Hirsch Vineyards state-of-the-art winery just Instagram: @occidentalwines for producing great terroir the 2013 harvest. vineyards in the new world, Jasmine Hirsch east of the town of Bodega wines. At Littorai, we derive described by the Wine Spectator overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Contact Info our unique sustainable farming Today, Occidental farms 85 as a “California grand cru”. Contact Info Steve’s daughters Catherine www.occidentalwines.com techniques from the fertile cross acres of pinot noir from the Founded by David Hirsch in [email protected] and Lizzie have now joined him 707-827-1655 currents of permaculture, agro- Bodega Headlands and Bodega 1980, it is the oldest premium 707-847-3600 at Occidental to assist in all info@occidentalwinescom ecology and biodynamics. Ridge properties. The vineyards Pinot Noir planting on the True aspects of the business. are farmed with great skill and Sonoma Coast. Hirsch has commitment by many of the provided fruit over the years Social Media Occidental is the culmination same men and women who to Williams Selyem, Littorai, Instagram: @littoraiwine of a journey that began in the have worked alongside Steve Kistler and many others. Twitter: @littoraiwine early 1990s. After founding at Kistler Vineyards for over 25 Facebook: Littorai Wines Kistler Vineyards in 1979, Steve Littorai years. The Occidental wines Since 2002 Hirsch has been Kistler started to produce a Littorai Wines is a small, continue to be tended with great producing its own estate Contact Info series of pinot noirs between family owned and operated care by members of Steve’s Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays. winery producing vineyard [email protected] 1994 and 2003 from both Peay Vineyards 707-823-9586 original cellar team. Located two miles from the designated Chardonnays and the Hirsch Vineyard and the Husband and wife, Nick Peay & Pacific Ocean at 1,600 feet 788 Gold Ridge Road Flowers vineyards on Camp Pinot Noirs from the true Occidental’s goal in wine Vanessa Wong, grow and make the elevation, Hirsch crafts highly Sebastopol, CA 95472 Meeting Ridge in the Fort Ross- north coast of California: the growing is to farm sustainably, wine and brother Andy Peay sells sought-after wines of elegance, By appointment only Seaview area. In 1995, Steve coastal mountains of Sonoma relying heavily on organic the wine and runs the business. concentration and also planted a four-acre pinot and Mendocino Counties. techniques to maintain a site-specificity. noir vineyard on Taylor Lane, Proprietors Heidi and Ted natural balance in the vineyard With minor exceptions, all wines which he named “Occidental Lemon are lifelong winemakers. and to keep man-made inputs are made from grapes grown The wines from Hirsch Vineyard,” directly across Ted Lemon began his career to a minimum. This approach on our 51-acre hilltop vineyard Vineyards give the passionate the street from the Summa at the age of twenty-two by seeks to develop vineyards that located above a river in the far drinker an experience of the working for four years in the Vineyard. Being able to taste northwestern corner of the West
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Sonoma Coast, 4 miles from the Carroll Kemp and Richard In 2017, Carroll left Red Car essence of the vineyard, not She introduced it to Pahlmeyer, Pacific Ocean at Sea Ranch. Crowell in 2000 with 50 cases of to pursue a personal project. Social Media supplemental cellar techniques. declaring it destined to become “the wine made from a single ton of Richard and his wife Alison, now Twitter: @senseswines Try for yourself-the proof is in La Tache of California.” Standing on We grow 34 acres of Pinot noir (4 Syrah grapes vinified in a Culver the sole remaining founders, are Instagram: @senseswines your glass! www.smallvines.com the sandy Goldridge soils, inhaling Pinots: Scallop Shelf, Pomarium, City garage. In a nod to their focused on promoting Red Car’s Facebook: @senseswines the cool sea air, bathing in the Ama, Sonoma Coast), 8 acres of California roots, the new venture wines and the excellent people generous sunshine, he, too, was Social Media Syrah (2 Syrah: Les Titans, La was named Red Car after the who make up the team including captivated by the possibilities of Contact Info Twitter: @smallvines Bruma), 7 acres of Chardonnay trolley line that ferried riders General Manager Jesse Mackey, this rustic, luminous place far (707) 874-8550 Instagram: @smallvines (2 Chardonnay: Estate, Sonoma across Los Angeles for the first Winemaker Tanner Scheer and from everything. PO BOX 171 Facebook: @smallvines Coast), 1.8 acres of Viognier (Estate), half of the twentieth century. Viticulturist/Farming Manager Occidental, CA 95465 0.4 acres of Roussanne and 0.2 Greg Adams. In tandem with his daughter Cleo acres of Marsanne (Estate blend). “While our wines were met with Contact Info and renowned winemaker Bibiana early critical acclaim, we knew [email protected] González Rave, Pahlmeyer drives to We farm organically and maintain that to truly excel we would need Social Media Kathryn Sloan, proprietor make intricate wines of 707-823-0886 our certifications for fish-friendly to farm our own vineyards, and Instagram: @redcarwine transcendence, answering to Business Address: farming and integrated pest in a cooler climate location,” says Twitter: @redcarwine a powerful, ever-unpredictable 2160 Green Hill Road management. The health of our Richard. “So, we started looking.” Facebook: @redcarwine Small Vines climate that rewards only the vineyard dictates these approaches In 2004, the partners purchased Farmed and crafted by Husband Sebastopol, CA 95472 most observant and meticulous. and Wife team Paul and Kathryn to farming and making wine. 125 acres of land and began Contact Info It is an endeavor of true passion, We also run on bio-diesel at the developing vineyards in the wild Sloan -Small Vines Wines are an experiment that pushes the 8400 Graton Road 100% Estate Grown, exclusively vineyard and solar power at both coastal ridges north of Sonoma Sebastopol, CA 95472 exactitude of winegrowing and the vineyard and winery. County’s Bodega Bay, a region from their unique high-density, winemaking to the farthest limits. 707-829-8500 organically farmed vineyards now known as the Fort Ross- [email protected] Social Media Seaview AVA. Here, the interplay planted in the northern coastal We invite you to discover regions of CA. Pioneering Facebook: peayvineyards of warm sunshine, cool Pacific Wayfarer, the culmination of a Vigneron, Paul Sloan innovated Instagram: peaywinery; peayandy breezes and sandstone soils Wayfarer far-reaching journey. would yield the ageworthy wines Grand-Cru, high-density growing Wayfarer vineyard is extraordinary of structure and complexity that methods from the Old-World and unforgiving: 30 undulating Social Media Contact Info and adapted them to California’s had captured their imagination. acres hidden among winding Instagram: @wayfarervineyard 207A N. Cloverdale Blvd. #201 terroir to achieve concentrated, mountain roads and redwoods, Facebook: @WayfarerVineyard Cloverdale, CA 95425 fresh-picked flavors and Unfortunately, in 2005 the three swathing a ridge on the Twitter: @WayfarerWine were reduced to two with the beautifully balanced wines. northwestern reach of the Sonoma Senses Wines With careful site selection, PhD passing of their inspiring friend Coast. This remote landscape Contact Info Mark Estrin. He is deeply missed West Sonoma Coast natives and level soil science and precise is the provenance of wildly beautiful childhood friends Christopher vineyard architecture-The (707) 244-1006 to this day. It was Mark who led wines born of risk, rigor and [email protected] Red Car to produce Pinot Noir, Strieter, Max Thieriot and Myles Sloan’s balance physically small mastery – small-lot Pinot Noir and Red Car Wine Chardonnay and Syrah on the Lawrence-Briggs, returned to their plants to use the vine’s own Chardonnay from the Pacific’s most company West Sonoma Coast, and it was hometown of Occidental to farm nature to dramatically reduce dramatic appellation. their well-known family vineyards. the yields, improve natural Red Car as it is known today Mark who exhorted his partners They attracted the help of renowned acidity and concentration. Paul For nearly 20 years, Red Car to develop the Estate vineyard Wayfarer was founded as a secluded winemaker Thomas Rivers Brown and Kathryn’s Pinot Noirs and has been on a journey—one that as the heart of the winery. farmstead more than 40 years ago, and have quickly grown their winery Chardonnays are prized for their started in sunny Los Angeles Fittingly, the oldest Syrah vines before its locale was defined as the by partnering with world-class purity, with intense aromatics, and marched steadily northward from the Estate vineyard are now now coveted Fort Ross-Seaview growers that they’ve known most natural acidity and a distinct toward a vision of cooler vineyard classified as the Estrin Block and AVA. In 1998, Jayson Pahlmeyer’s of their lives. Together, with TRB as inner power at lower alcohol sites and the complex, aromatic are the cornerstone of Cuvee 22, winemaker, Helen Turley,discovered their winemaker, this trio is building levels. To shepherd these wines wines they can express. Red Car a limited production lot dedicated the site for sale down the road an amazing future with very exciting of authenticity -they focus on was founded by Mark Estrin, to Mark. from her Marcassin vineyard. wine in bottle and barrel. fastidious farming and the
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Whistler Vineyards Whistler Vineyards was founded by husband and wife Drs. Stig Hansen and Jennifer Whistler in 2001. Our estate vineyard, Whistler Vineyard, is located in the north-western Sonoma Coast just a few miles from the Pacific Ocean and is planted exclusively to Pinot Noir and Viognier at an ultra- high density of 2,450-4,000 vines per acre. The site’s deep marine sandy loam allows us to dry-farm, producing small clusters with tiny berries that have great flavor complexity. We are intimately involved with all farming decisions, as we firmly believe that great wines are created in the vineyard. Stig Hansen makes the wines with a focus to craft authentic wines with complexity and balance that showcase the elegance of the West Sonoma Coast.
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