2021 Stagiaire 'Epiphanies in Place' Ascona Vineyard Pinot Noir, Santa Cruz Mountains, USA Les Vignes de Paradis This wine is delicious and

This wine is delicious and really changed our minds about the potential of making natural wine from Napa

Norton Summit

4 acres that he meticulously works by himself

Cooling / settling: Cold settled off dirt and heavy solids for 3 days

while the Poulsard and Trousseau are fully de-stemmed

2021 Stagiaire 'Epiphanies in Place' Ascona Vineyard Pinot Noir, Santa Cruz Mountains, USA Les Vignes de Paradis This wine is delicious and2021 was a big drought year in California. Not the usual amount of growth in the vines. Low yields. Low nutrients in the juices. I was getting shorted on all of my contracts in the first push of the harvest season, so I reached out to grower friends to see if anyone had anything else I could purchase. Literally anything. My friend Ken that takes care of Ascona where I get my Sangiovese for Scales offered me some luxury(pricy) Pinot that was getting