Santa Maria Valley Bien Nacido Syrah

Beef, Lamb, Poultry, Game (deer, venison)

Farming is practicing organic, yielding around just 2 tons of grapes per hectare. The wine blended from ‘Z’ Block, planted 1992 on limestone soils, and ‘X’ Block, planted in 1973, originally to own rooted Riesling before being grafted to the Estrella River Clone Syrah in 1986.

Aged 18 months in neutral French oak (12 months 228L barrique, 6 months 500L puncheon)

Native yeast fermentation . Wine was fermented in concrete tanks with 70% whole-cluster

Piedrasassi cultivates grapes and grain in the Central Coast of California. Through our bread and wine, we endeavor to tell the stories of this unique region and its people. In the vineyards and fields, our family’s winery and bakery, we approach our work with a reverence for place and a responsible hand—We seek to celebrate the innate beauty of each harvest. We primarily cultivate and vinify Syrah, a variety with which winemaker Sashi Moorman has worked for over two decades. Today, the viticultural heritage of the Northern Rhone and the pioneering ethos of the Central Coast equally inform his engagement with Syrah. In the bakery, Melissa Sorongon freshly mills American heritage grains for naturally-leavened loaves that she bakes in a hand-built wood-fired oven. Melissa and her daughter, Juliet, bring each week’s bread and a selection of our wines to Santa Barbara’s Saturday farmers’ market.