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- We seek to make elegant and balanced wines that express our vineyard's terroir.
- We only make wine from our 48-acre hilltop estate vineyard located above a river gorge in the far northwestern corner of the "true" Sonoma Coast, 4 miles from the Pacific Ocean at Sea Ranch. Yes, it's remote. The vineyard sits at 700 feet elevation in a bank of fog in the morning with a cool wind blowing steadily every afternoon.
- We grow and produce estate wine from:
- 33 acres of Pinot noir (2 cuvees, Scallop Shelf and Pomarium)
- 8 acres of Syrah (2 cuvees, Les Titans and La Bruma)
- 5 acres of Chardonnay
- 0.8 acres of Viognier (mailing list only)
- 0.4 acres of Roussanne and 0.2 acres of Marsanne (mailing list only)
- We sell fruit to 2 wineries:
- Williams Selyem Winery (6 1/2 acres, they make a Peay Vineyards designate. '03 first vintage)
- Failla Winery (1 1/2 acres, he makes a Peay Vineyards designate. '06 first vintage)
- Winemaker Vanessa Wong left her position as winemaker at Peter Michael Winery in 2001 to launch Peay Vineyards. Prior to our first vintage she made wine at Château Lafite-Rothschild, Domaine Jean Gros, Hirsch Vineyards (as winemaker) and Peter Michael (as winemaker).
- Nick Peay, a UC Davis-trained and veteran Santa Cruz mountains winemaker, is the vineyard manager and works side-by-side with our full-time crew of 8 workers, no vineyard management companies involved.
- Though we are not certified organic, we farm organically and make every effort to grow our fruit using sustainable vineyard and winery practices. The long term health of the vineyard and our ecosystem drive our practices (we use in-row tillers instead of herbicide, lots of compost and limestone, organic sprays, and bio-diesel in our tractors). Both the winery and vineyard run on solar power.
- Though we (Vanessa, Andy and Nick) are young (in our late thirties/early forties) the vineyard and winery are not a family heritage. They are the result of our combined 42 years working in the wine industry. We started it from scratch and have dedicated our lives to it. Wine is our work and our passion.
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