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Hirsch Vineyard- Sonoma Coast

Hirsch Vineyard, located in the Sonoma Coast appellation is the absolute premium source of Pinot Noir in the country. We are proud to make this wine in friendship with David Hirsch.

Our selected block is of the Pomard clone and of the Mount Eden clone. Low yielding vines and a perfect climate for Pinot Noir make this wine a winner time and time again.

History:
David Hirsch, now 56, had made some money and was looking for some “elbow room” to live in. He decided on the Sonoma Coast “because it was unsettled. I wanted to buy a big piece of land, and it was cheap.” Hirsch knew nothing about grapes, but he was friends with the owner of the old, Santa Cruz-based Felton-Empire winery. (Felton-Empire’s Late Harvest Rieslings were famous in their day.) One day, the owner Jim Beauregard, came to visit Hirsch. Hirsch recalls, “[He] comes up here to this place with no electricity and very suspect roads, and he walks around, looks at me, and says, ‘Plant Pinot Noir here, and this will be a very famous vineyard.’ And so,” Hirsch smiles, “the very next day, I did.”

Beauregard was prescient. Hirsch planted his first grapes in 1980; today, he follows the Sonoma Coast pattern: He makes no wine of his own, but sells grapes to wineries including Kistler, Williams-Selyem, Littorai and Siduri, who bottle his Pinot Noirs with the Hirsch Vineyard designation.

• We are currently sold out of all our wine produced from Hirsch Vineyard fruit