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- We seek to make expressive, elegant and balanced wines that capture our vineyard’s terroir.
- We only make wine from our 53-acre hilltop estate vineyard located above a river gorge in the far northwestern corner of the “true” West Sonoma Coast, 4 miles from the Pacific Ocean at Sea Ranch. Yes, it’s remote. The vineyard sits at 700 feet elevation in the inversion layer nestled in a bank of fog in the morning with a cool wind blowing steadily every afternoon.
- We grow and produce estate wine from:
- 35 acres of Pinot noir (4 cuvees, Scallop Shelf, Pomarium, Ama and Sonoma Coast)
- 8 acres of Syrah (2 cuvees, Les Titans and La Bruma)
- 7 acres of Chardonnay (2 cuvees, Estate and Sonoma Coast)
- 1.8 acres of Viognier (mailing list only)
- 0.4 acres of Roussanne and 0.2 acres of Marsanne (mailing list only)
- Winemaker Vanessa Wong left her position as winemaker at Peter Michael Winery in 2001 to launch Peay Vineyards. Prior to our first vintage she made wine at Château Lafite-Rothschild, Domaine Jean Gros, Hirsch Vineyards (as winemaker) and Peter Michael (as winemaker).
- Nick Peay, a UC Davis-trained and veteran Santa Cruz mountains winemaker, is the vineyard manager and works side-by-side with our full-time crew of 8 workers, no vineyard management companies involved.
- We sell fruit to 2 wineries:
- Williams Selyem Winery (6½ acres, they make a Peay Vineyards designate. ‘03 first vintage)
- Failla Winery (1½ acres, he makes a Peay Vineyards designate. ’06 first vintage)
- Though we are not certified organic, we farm organically and make every effort to grow our fruit using sustainable vineyard and winery practices. The long term health of the vineyard and our ecosystem drive our practices (we use in-row tillers instead of herbicide, lots of compost and limestone, organic sprays, and bio-diesel in our tractors). Both the winery and vineyard run on solar power.
- Though we (Vanessa, Andy and Nick) are young (early forties) the vineyard and winery are not a family heritage. We started it from scratch and have dedicated our lives to it. Wine is our work and our passion.
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