We are thrilled to have the opportunity to produce wines from outstanding vineyards cultivated by exceptional growers in the Russian River Valley, Santa Lucia Highlands, and Fiddletown American Viticultural Areas. Achieving the most developed and complex fruit for our wines requires that a great deal of work in the vineyard be done by hand. This work is carried out painstakingly vine by vine. Some examples of this include strategic pruning during winter months to ensure proper balance in vine structure, positioning shoots on the trellis system as the vines develop, managing the canopy and controlling water throughout the summer months, selecting and thinning fruit to focus flavors as clusters mature, and harvesting cluster by cluster once we taste and observe the characteristics we are looking for.