An expression of virginia’s two greatest american viticultural areas
MONTICELLO AVA
Hazy Mountain
Estate vineyard
Hazy Mountain is our Estate Vineyard, currently with 35 acres under vine and growing. First planted in 2019, our dreams come true in this vineyard.
The south facing slopes range in elevation from 800 feet to 1,140 feet at the mountain’s crest. Soil varies throughout the vineyard from block to block, but at its core is a very rocky loam soil from parent rock, granite gneiss. The granite ranges from pebbles to boulders, with seemingly a mountain’s worth of quartz scattered throughout the hillsides.
Our steep vineyards are perfect for shedding water and producing the finest wines. Higher density planting of 3 feet between vines, 8-foot-wide rows, and tall posts gives us as much canopy as possible.
With the southern exposure, very rocky, well-drained soil, and excess of room for canopy to grow, we truly believe this site will blow away any doubts that the finest wines in the world can be produced right here in Virginia.
SHENANDOAH VALLEY AVA
Little North Mountain
Little North Mountain Vineyard is our production vineyard site in Swoope, Virginia: a small, rural community west of Staunton, on the southeast-facing slopes of the west side of the Shenandoah Valley.
Since our first planting in 2016, the vineyard has grown to 50 acres planted upon a beautiful terroir. The soil is made from the erosion of the Little North Mountain range at the foot of North Mountain, with its limestone rock flowing into our foothills. A limestone silt loam leaves a deep blanket across the vineyard that ranges in elevation from 1,550 to 1,700 feet.
The cooler valley climate has a wonderful diurnal temperature flux with warm days and cool nights, preserving our acid as the grapes ripen.
Wind blows constantly through this side of the valley and through the vineyard—we often think we should have considered being windmill farmers instead of grape growers, with how constant the gusts are. These gusts circulating through the vine canopy provide a far less humid site than Virginia grape growing has become accustomed to.
Our ambition is to show you the delicate notes that this balance of terroir offers through the beautiful wines it produces.
