Vineyard: Falcon Lane

AVA: Russian River Valley, CA

Farming: Organic, Dry Farmed

Harvest Date: 28 September 2025

Bottling Date: 31 July 2026

Alc: 13%

Cases: 50

Falcon Lane is a small backyard Syrah vineyard in Graton, CA, that I have been farming for 6 years.  It had previously been abandoned, and farming it has been a long and slow labor of cleaning up and retraining the vines. 2025 is the third harvest in which we grew enough fruit from the vineyard to ferment and bottle as an individual cuvee.

A handful of friends and I picked the fruit on a Sunday morning in late September, during some rare time off from winery work.  We trucked it back to the winery, foot crushed it and left it whole cluster to ferment.  It fermented for 8 days on skins, after which the Syrah was pressed to tank, then transferred to two neutral oak barriques to undergo malolactic and age on lees over the winter.

In March, the two barrels of Syrah were racked to tank for bottling.

Indigenous yeast fermentation. 20 ppm SO2 added at bottling, no other additions, unfined and unfiltered.