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Planted by Gerhard in 1999/2000 at 1700-1800ft over the Monterey Bay in the Santa Cruz Mountains on sandstone and shale. I started farming the site in 2020. Everything done by hand. No tractor. No tilling. A place of power and beauty. The steep sandy slopes are lapped by the moist ocean mists rushing up the mountains.
2023 was a longer and cooler growing season and harvest. Scheduling picks was very easy as ripening was very spread out, instead of everything getting ripe at the same time which happened in 2024. The cool and wet season produced a bit of botrytis and some powdery for us to sort through, but I think we did a good job. This cuvee is from the second pick of this site. The bottom of the south block and the bottom of the North block.
The riper fruit was destemmed over the whole clusters from the less ripe sections. Macerated for 10 days with daily pump overs.