This wine comes from Tagabelle vineyard, a three acre organic vineyard owned and farmed by the Bolton Family in Los Olivos. This wine had an unconventional inception! I wasn’t always intending to make a single vineyard Roussanne. Instead, I had first sought out Tagabelle Vineyard to make Sundrop, the fermented field blend of Rhone whites, but after tasting the Roussanne in the field and looking at the chemistry I knew this Roussanne would be something special on its own. So I had to do it! I made 3 barrels of Roussanne fermented separately from the coferment, and a single vineyard Roussanne was born. This wine has a special clarity that is difficult to find in rhone whites. This wine will certainly withstand the test of time.