Natural wines, Island fruits.
Fruit holds the tremendous capacity to translate a vision of the particular piece of earth on which it was grown through fermentation. Here on the San Juan Islands, we embrace fruits growing on wind-swept sandstone, ancient limestone, and alluvial clays. We make wines from the familiar fruits and the not, allowing these flavors, both intimate and new to buoy us with the feeling of well being that comes from drinking something with clarity and freshness. Something that nourishes us in the same way fish from the cold seas or berries picked wild on a mountain top are able.
We live at the edge of the country, working with trees and vines planted at the edge of the sea on ancient submerged mountain tops, to push past the territories we all know, and launch our taste buds into a stratospheric full spectrum of fun, fruity flavors.
Embracing this vast window of what wine can be is what we are here for. We find winemaking here to be full of energy and promise. We hope you love drinking these wines as much as we do.
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As a small link in the chain of homestead farming on the San Juan Islands, we hope to do our part to help preserve the San Juan Islands’ vital farming history through the caring for historic orchards and vineyards, and the propagating of new, responsibly farmed plantings of apples, quince, pears and grapes.
In addition to our own plantings of hybrid grapes, quince and apples, we have partnered with other farming families to plant orchards and vineyards with both heritage genetic material and unusual grape and apple varieties suited to our local climate. To date we have planted 130 apple, pear and quince trees, as well as two acres of hybrid grapes with a third planting of hybrid and table grapes in its initial planning stages.
Each planting is brought to the islands with the intention of breaking past the unsustainable world of monoculture vinifera: we grow here on the northern edge of the country in a place that has a long sustainable chance in the face of climate change to grow outstanding fruits without chemical inputs, and without preservatives or other additions to the final wine.
We moved here to make better wine than can be made in a hotter climate. It’s natural wine, and it’s also climate change wine.
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