First look
Releases go to the list first
Before anywhere else, and in some years the list is the only place a wine goes at all.
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A short list, and no strings on it.
We send a few emails a year, and only when there is wine. That is the entire arrangement.
The promise
No minimums. No penalty for sitting one out.
Plenty of lists work the other way. Buy every vintage or your allocation shrinks. Take wines you did not want so you keep access to the one you did. People call them hostage lists, and they are right.
We are not big enough to need that and would not want it if we were. We make a small amount of wine, we tell you when it is ready, and you take what you want. Skip a year or a shipment and nothing happens — you are still part of the family.
Sign up to receive quarterly shipments if you like. But it is not required. We are here to get you great wine when you want it. That is it.
No obligation
Take what you want
No minimum order and no quiet demotion for passing on a vintage. Quarterly shipments if you want them, never required.
From the vineyard
What the season is doing
When we picked, what the fog did, what is still in barrel. Short notes from a working ridge.
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One field. We will write when the next wine is ready.
You are on the list. We will write when the next wine is ready.
Before you join
Straight answers.
- Do I have to buy every vintage to stay on the list?
- No. There are no tiers, no minimum, and no penalty for sitting a year out. We make a small amount of wine, we email you when it is ready, and you take what you want.
- How much wine is there?
- Not much. The Goatman is the smallest lot of the three with just over 100 cases. The amounts of the remaining wines depend on the vintage, and some years it is very small.
- What do Sebastopol Hills wines taste like?
- Cooler and tighter than the rest of the Russian River Valley. More black fruit on the end, more tea and herb in the middle, no jammy flavors and enough acid for it to sit at a table with food.
- Can I come see the vineyard?
- Ask. It is a working ridge rather than a tasting room, but we would rather say yes than no.
- Where do you ship?
- Tell us where you are when you join and we will get it to you.
- How often will you email me?
- A few times a year. Around release, around harvest, and when something is worth saying. Never more than that.