2023 Estate Marsanne - Ibarra-Young Vineyard and cools off with coastal

and cools off with coastal fog in the evening

It has extremely low vigor

Over the years I have been able to narrow down my Gamay block preferences

The soils are alluvial deposits from the San Rafael Mountains

These vines clearly want to be here

2023 Estate Marsanne - Ibarra-Young Vineyard and cools off with coastalThese vines were planted in 1973, part of the second planting at Ibarra Young Vineyard. As is everything in this vineyard, they are own rooted, farmed no till, rotationally grazed, and interplanted with native plants to the Santa Ynez watershed. This block sits across a fairly sandy part of an alluvial bench that runs through the vineyard. It has extremely low vigor, allowing light through the canopy so that its clusters are constantly dappled with