Sebastopol

Destination · Sebastopol

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Ted Lemon ran a Meursault estate at 25 and came back to farm 30 acres of Sebastopol with cows, sheep and a barn full of drying chamomile.

Solid · Sebastopol

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Audrey and Barry Sterling bought a failing vineyard down a Sebastopol dirt road in February 1976, two weeks after seeing it in a rainstorm.

Solid · Sebastopol

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Marimar Torres left Barcelona in 1975, planted this ground in 1986 and named the vineyards for her parents.

Solid · Sebastopol

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Merry Edwards made Russian River Pinot Noir for 47 vintages, trained her successor for five years, and retired in February 2020. Esther Mobley says the wines still earn the name.

Solid · Sebastopol

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Pax Mahle was buying wine for Dean & DeLuca when he moved west in 1997, and by 2000 he was making cool-climate Syrah while everyone else planted Pinot Noir.

Listed · Sebastopol

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Six vineyards, every one of them within ten miles of the Pacific, and the estate block planted in Fort Ross-Seaview in 2005. $35 for an hour, walk-ins welcome, last pour at four.

Listed · Sebastopol

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Fred Scherrer still sells a 2016 Russian River Pinot Noir that he released in November 2019. Almost nobody holds red wine that long before letting it go.

Listed · Sebastopol

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They opened in the Barlow promising no flagship beers, no kegs out the door and nothing in stores.

Listed · Sebastopol

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Dan Kosta and Michael Browne pooled tips from a Santa Rosa restaurant in 1997 and ended up with an eighteen-month waiting list. Both of them were gone by 2017.

Listed · Sebastopol

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Jamie Kutch left a NASDAQ trading job in New York and now punches down every ferment by foot, into nothing but neutral French oak. There is no tasting room; you email him and hope.

Listed · Sebastopol

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Lynmar dry-farms four vineyards along the Laguna de Santa Rosa to Pinot Noir and Chardonnay and nothing else, on a hundred acres. Sixty dollars buys ninety minutes, four people to a table.

Listed · Sebastopol

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Both domains carrying this label's name fail to resolve, and no publication I could read has written about it. I cannot tell you whether anything is open on Gravenstein Highway.