Petillant Naturel Rose of Pinot Noir.
1-fermentation sparkling wine, made from grapes I have been farming on small vineyards.

2021 Pet Sounds is a single vineyard wine- made from Hollow Oak Acres- a 6 acre vineyard I farm myself.
Farming practices are no-till, non-certified organic with some biodynamic farming practices.

Vinification was whole cluster, in tank, bottled at 18 g/l sugar, and finished in bottle.
Sulfur was 8ppm at crush, 4 ppm at bottling

4 barrels that just spoke out from the mix. This wine reminds me of something a little deeper than the rest of the fruit off this vineyard. Deep, serious and earthy- with an undercurrent of joy- this is more like a northern rhone from Dard & Ribo than anything I've ever encountered.

This wine is named for the Greek cafe where Joni Mitchell spent starry nights singing and recovering from her breakup with Graham Nash.

After a brutal 2022 spring, the song "Carey" reminded me of the bone deep physical joy of farming, and this wine reminds me of it too.

Only 300 cases made.
The 2021 (LBJ) is a whole-cluster, partial carbonic red Pinot Noir from Hollow Oak Acres, a high-altitude vineyard in the Chehalem Mountains AVA of the Willamette Valley.

The origin story:
Planted in 2009, Hollow Oak acres has had a tumultuous past. It was planted by the former Maysara vineyard manager, who brought his biodynamic practices with him. The vineyard has been farmed organically except for 1 year gap in 2017.
I started farming it in 2020, right before the pandemic began.

The owner, Jerry Drake and I knew each other through fellow farmers- and when I went to look at it I realized it was a site with energy- and had weathered a conversion to no-till without dropping vigor.

A silky, ethereal, soulful little wine that I'm very proud to have made.
In 2019 the fruit came in fully ripe, with low alcohol, with was 100% de-stemmed and punched down daily.

Super juicy rosé of Pinot Noir