2025 · Santa Cruz Mountains
"Le Soleil" Chardonnay
Ocean air, white flowers, and crushed stone — the coastal side of the mountain range.
Toyon · 480 ft
$36
Santa Cruz Mountains
Mountain-grown. Coast-shaped.
We farm fifteen sites between the redwoods and the Pacific, and make the wine with as light a hand as the fruit allows.
328 Ingalls Street, Suite G
In the glass now
Current release
2024 · Santa Cruz Mountains
Ascona Chardonnay
White tea, citrus, quince, and brine from the highest site we farm.
Ascona · 2,400 ft
$60
2024 · Santa Cruz Mountains
Arey Chardonnay
Flint, lemon verbena, and ocean air — four barrels of it.
Jeb Dunnuck 95 points
Arey · 700 ft
$60
2025 · Cienega Valley
“Calcaire” Chenin Blanc
Jasmine tea and citrus peel, dry and mineral, off limestone in the Cienega Valley.
$32
The mountain
This is a farming project that happens to make wine
Cole grew up in these hills with a pair of pruning shears in his hand. Everything we bottle starts with a decision made in the vineyard months earlier — when to drop fruit, which cover crop to sow, how long to wait when the fog won't lift. The cellar is where we try not to get in the way.
Organic farming across every site we control. Solar at the winery. Emissions measured and offset, reported once a year with the methodology attached.
The sites
Fifteen sites. One restless mountain range.
Sandstone, shale, fractured granite. Four hundred feet above town to twenty-four hundred on the ridge. Every one of them tastes like itself, and all of them taste like here.
Farm · Guide · Wait
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Farm
Organic, hand-worked, low yields. Cover crops and compost instead of shortcuts.
02
Guide
Native fermentation, whole clusters when the stems earn it, neutral vessels only.
03
Wait
Time on lees, time in bottle. We release when the wine stops asking for more.
This week at Ingalls Street
Wine is better with company
Music
Friday Night Jazz
Every Friday · 5 – 8 pm · No cover
A trio in the corner, the roll-up door open, wine by the glass and bottle.
Open
Food
Oysters on the Patio
Third Saturday · 1 – 5 pm · Pay as you go
Shucking outside until they run out. Rosé and Aligoté by the glass.
Few spots
Release
Fall Release Party
Saturday, October 11 · 12 – 8 pm · Free for members
The new single-vineyard reds, poured next to the barrels they came out of.
Open
The club
The wines we make least of go to members first
Three tiers, from $96 per shipment. Complimentary tastings for two, dinners in the cellar, and the club-only bottlings that never reach the shop.
"Among the most compelling young producers working in the Santa Cruz Mountains — wines of real place, made without noise."
From the journal
Good farming leaves a trace
Field notes from a foggy August: what the marine layer does to ripening on the ridge, and why we picked Ascona three days later than we planned.
Mailing list
Release dates, pick dates, and the occasional pop-up
One email when there is something worth telling you. Nothing else.