2021 Eternal Return
Pinot from my main vineyard in the Santa Cruz Mountains planted at 1800ft elevation. Lot’s of whole cluster. Brooding. Savory. Ethereal.
Pinot from my main vineyard in the Santa Cruz Mountains planted at 1800ft elevation. Lot’s of whole cluster. Brooding. Savory. Ethereal.
Pinot from my main vineyard in the Santa Cruz Mountains planted at 1800ft elevation. Lot’s of whole cluster. Brooding. Savory. Ethereal.
Things repeat. To a comically monotonous rhythm sometimes. but there is also a comfort in knowing what’s around the corner. And in that comfort, I find relief at times but also a sadness. It just depends on my brain chemistry in the moment I guess. Sometimes I want ritual and predictability and stability. But then when I experience the thrill and fear of the unknown, the alternative banal expected seems dull in comparison. So maybe the rhythm for me is the eb and flow between those two states: civility and wildness. Safety and insecurity. The vines however don’t give a fuck. They get pruned. They grow. Some years more easily than others. They get sprayed. They get harvested. They go to sleep. And then we start over. Pinot from my Summit Santa Cruz vineyard. Planted by Gerhard in 1999/2000 on a sandstone and shale knoll at 1700-1800ft over the Monterey Bay. I farmed these vines from 2020-2022 and only really just began to understand the rhythms of the seasons on this site. Very organic, no tractors, no tilling. Just many passes of human hands.
A blend of whole cluster and destemmed ferments(probably about 60% wholecluster). 3-4 weeks of maceration. Free run and press wines were separated and aged in barrel for a year. This wine is a blend of all of the pressed wine barrels(or ones with a significant proportion of it). The cuvee that is all free run will be in the next release.
It’s red wine. It’s Pinot. It tastes pretty good. This site and a lot of the higher elevation coastal Santa Cruz Pinots remind me a lot of some of my favorite Alsace Pinots. I’m not super educated on soils there but I think there is a bit of sandstone in some vineyards that the producers we love tend to work with. There is a dark brooding streak underneath the red fruit. Maybe a touch of iodine. And lifted aromatics. I hate that I’m turning into a person that likes Pinot Noir.
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