2023 Ceritas Trout Gulch Vineyard Pinot Noir, Santa Cruz Mountains, USA Leipold with a further racking at

with a further racking at the end of March to prepare the wine for bottling in early April

and then transferred to small

Each terroir and each vintage

70% Pinot Noir - 10% Shiraz - 10% Gewürztraminer - 5% Pinot Meunier - 5% Gamay

2023 Ceritas Trout Gulch Vineyard Pinot Noir, Santa Cruz Mountains, USA Leipold with a further racking atTrout Gulch sits at 750 feet above the hamlet of Aptos in the southern Santa Cruz Mountains. The vineyard was planted in 1980 to Wente Chardonnay and Mt Eden Pinot Noir and is carefully tended to by winemaker vigneron Richard Alfaro. Uplifted oceanic sandy soils create unique drainage sending the vines deep into marine derived sub soils. Tucked into a cool coastal redwood drainage allows temperatures here to stay cooler than expected summertime highs