FIND YOUR LIGHT PINOT NOIR
In 2015, I got a call from a young man in New York, Josh Groban. He was performing on Broadway, had tasted our wine, loved it, and inquired about making a special wine to benefit his foundation, the Find Your Light Foundation. The Find Your Light Fou
ESTATE GROWN, SONOMA COAST, PINOT NOIR
When we planted our Estate Vineyard in 1993, our goals were not lofty. There had never been a vineyard planted in western Sebastopol, all the way to the coast. We were the first; we proceeded without a clue what we were doing. We purchased the rootst
CLONE 828, SONOMA MOUNTAIN, PINOT NOIR
By 2006, Halleck Vineyard had emerged as one of the top wineries amongst a handful of boutiques in our neighborhood. To say we were a big fish in a little pond would be overstating. We were a small fish in a small pond, but showing some bright colors
HILLSIDE CUVEE, SONOMA MOUNTAIN, PINOT NOIR
Similar to our approach with our Three Sons Cuvee and the Russian River Valley, we hoped to create a signature blend of vineyards to represent the Sonoma Coast. We introduced the Three Sons in 2003, but awaited until 2006 to introduce its Sonoma Coas
HAAS VINEYARD, SONOMA MOUNTAIN, PINOT NOIR
The Haas Vineyard is really not named, as such. It’s a modest, two acre vineyard behind an equally modest home near Glen Ellen on the eastern foot of Sonoma Mountain. It’s currently owned by Peter and Ginny Haas, but we had purchased fruit from t
THE FARM VINEYARDS, RUSSIAN RIVER VALLEY, PINOT NOIR
The Farm Vineyards was the first vineyard in our neighborhood from which we purchased fruit. In 2003, after being judged #1 Pinot in the United States, we needed to make more wine than our Estate Grown could support. Greg Lafollette, our winemaker, s
THREE SONS CUVEE, RUSSIAN RIVER VALLEY, PINOT NOIR
When we planted our Estate Vineyard in 1993, our goals were not lofty. There had never been a vineyard planted in western Sebastopol, all the way to the coast. We were the first, and we began without a clue what we were doing. We purchased the rootst
CALANDRELLI VINEYARD DRY GEWURZTRAMINER
I was introduced Gewurztraminer in, of all places, Kenya in the 1970s. I lived in Kenya as a young man. It had been a British Colony just a decade earlier. India had also been a British Colony, a relatively short hop across the Indian Ocean. As part
`NOT YOUR MOTHER’S“ DRY WHITE ZINFANDEL
European semi-sweet wines were the rage in the 1970s. Blue Nun, a German Liebfroumilch, was a fave. Mateus Rosé from Portugal was the most popular wine in the world. At the same time, a new entrant, White Zinfandel, joined the ranks of American wine
Little Sister Sauvignon Blanc
The grapes for our Little Sister Sauvignon Blanc are sourced from “Patient Terrier” Vineyard named in homage to the faithful companion of its owner, Greg Conklin. Rather than “Patient Terrier”, we chose to name the wine for a family story. In